DER­BY, Eng­land – Khadi­ja Shaw’s as­sist was not enough to pre­vent Man­ches­ter City from los­ing to Chelsea 2-1 in the Women’s League Cup fi­nal on Sun­day in an ex­cit­ing con­test at Der­by Coun­ty’s Pride Park.

It took Chelsea just eight min­utes to break the dead­lock when Mayra Ramirez net­ted an ear­ly open­er, bundling in a re­bound that bounced off City skip­per La­ia Aleixan­dri.

Shaw then set­up Ao­ba Fu­ji­no in the sec­ond half to bring the match back on lev­el terms, with Fu­ji­no pro­duc­ing a pow­er­ful strike that flew past Chelsea’s goal­keep­er Han­nah Hamp­ton and in­to the roof of the net in the 64th minute to make it 1-1.

How­ev­er, an own goal by Yui Hasegawa in the 77th minute re­stored Chelsea’s lead, end­ing their three-year los­ing streak in League Cup fi­nals.

The re­sult was Chelsea’s first tro­phy un­der head coach So­nia Bom­pas­tor and kept their bid for a his­toric quadru­ple alive.

CMC