Chelsea thrash Leicester in a massive blow to WSL survival hopes

Leicester City lost 6-0 against second place Chelsea in Wednesday evening's Barclay's Women's Super League fixture at Kingsmeadow.

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Four goals were scored in the first-half, two in the second as Chelsea brushed aside the visitors.

Securing Chelsea's fifth home win in a row, leaving The Blues just one point off the top of the Women's Super League with the Foxes trailing by 36 points in 11th.

After just eight minutes played, Chelsea broke the deadlock through Guro Reiten. The Norwegian winger's left-footed shot found the the bottom left corner of Janina Leitzig's net.

The chances just kept coming for Chelsea and just ten minutes later The Blues doubled their lead against the Foxes.

Following a Leicester error on the edge of the penalty area, Erin Cuthbert found the bottom right corner of City's net.

Leicester were handed a few opportunities in front of the Chelsea net, but again it was The Blues who were on the front foot.

In the 32nd minute Pernille Harder's left footed shot in the six yard box found the bottom corner of the net.

Ten minutes later, Harder scored the fourth Chelsea goal. The Danish international found the bottom right corner from the centre of the box. Leitzig got a hand to the ball, but the Bayern Munich loanee couldn't do enough to keep the ball out the net.

After the second-half kicked off, all the chances continued to fall Chelsea's way.

56 minutes into the half and Chelsea found a fifth goal. Lauren James drove into the box with the ball and picked out the top corner of the Leicester net.

On the 64th minute there were five substitutions. 18 year-old midfielder Monique Robinson replaced former Tottenham Hotspur captain Josie Green for Leicester. Chelsea then made four substitutions. Pernille Harder was replaced by Canadian midfielder Jessie Fleming, Swedish midfielder Johanna Rytting Kaneryd replaced goalscorer Lauren James. Sophie Ingle replaced Erin Cuthbert and Russian defender Alsu Abdullina replaced Guro Reiten.

There were a second round of substitutions in the 75th minute as Leicester welcomed back Shannon O'Brien who came on to replace the Austrlian international Remy Siemsen. Molly Pike also came on in the midfield to replace Hannah Cain. Chelsea also made a change as Canadian centre-back Kadeisha Buchanan replaced Magdalena Eriksson.

As the game made its way into the final ten minutes, Leicester found more opportunities in front of goal, but the Foxes couldn't find a way through.

With just over five minutes to play, Janina Leitzig made a brilliant save to keep the game at 5-0.

In the 88th minute, Jemma Purfield's shot from outside of the Chelsea box found itself just wide of the post.

Just before the whistle blew for full-time, Chelsea found the net for the sixth time. Jelena Cankovic's stunning strike was too much for Leitzig, who got a hand to the ball, but it was too powerful and shot into the back of the net.

The game ended 6-0 as Leicester were thrashed by Chelsea.