Hammers Earn First Away Win Of The Season! - Leicester City v West Ham - Barclays WSL 25-26

Held up by Asay. Pass back from Hanshaw. Asay with a really lovely looking cross and it was Vondelary was trying to leap to get something on that. Not a bad ball in. No better and again just waiting for those bodies to get in the box and Vondelary, you know, she makes a good late run in. Here will be lifted in again. But Clarke will get there before Asay. Hanshaw. Plays it to Ueki. Now it comes back to Ueki. That is a shot on target but nothing to trouble Clarke in the Leicester goal. West Ham found a little bit more space I think down this left-hand side. little bit too good. I think Katrina Gorey's a bit annoyed that she thinks she's doing, you know, she's putting in some fair challenges here and she's hearing the referees whistle. Free kick in the end with T and E. I think Williams just left it for Neville, who might have just heard a shout from behind her there. Give them back to Neville from Williams. Low-driven ball in. Oh, and Chemek had to stop that going in. Did she mean that? Even if she didn't, Ashley Neville very close to opening the scoring for Leicester at the King Power. Yeah, I think for me, I think she saw it. I think she knows from that position, you know, keeper is slightly shifted to her left. Here it's forward. It's Vondelary who's racing up the pitch. Tries to play the ball to Vondelary. I think it's going to be a yellow card here. I think that was for Swaby. Was that for just pulling back on Vondelary, I think, wasn't it? So a yellow card for the Leicester City defender. Will it be handshort or a say to take? It will be handshort and it's straight in! West Ham take the lead with a handshort free kick! Pass the keeper to make it Leicester City 0, West Ham 1. Wow, they're just against the run of play. You know, totally Leicester have been so strong defensively. But look at this. Left force perfectly weighted. You know, keeper has a long way to travel there. Absolutely precision from Hanshaw there. I think there are appeals there, is it? Maybe came off Cascarino. She's asking exactly how she was involved. Yes, I think it might have just come off her arm. Came with another free kick. Might come in Swaby's up there. Oh, it's so close to going over the line. A real collection of bodies inside that six yard box. I did wonder if Shannon O'Brien might get a really important touch there. I think just for her, I think she's come from an offside position. Poked forward by Hanshaw. Martinez is racing onto it. She's got around Swaby who just leant into her. Corner is taken. It's Williams who got her head to it. Comes out as far as Gorey, who was sort of turning as she made contact with that ball, I think. Maybe couldn't have been hugely confident about exactly where it was going to end up. Now with Tierney, Martinez helping out defensively. To Ayl. Cross back in. Comes down for a strike that went only a few inches, it feels like, wide from Sarah Maling. There's more about Leicester, isn't there, at the start of the second half? Yeah, again, just well drifted ball. Neville has carried on running. Picks up the ball again. Gets away from Vondelayre. Well, she fancied something again there, Ashley Neville. She's already forced a save from the West Ham goalkeeper in this game. And Ashley Neville on target again for Leicester City. West Ham with a lot of defending to do at the moment. Leicester keeping it inside their opponent's half. You can see where the ball has been for large parts of this second half as the cross bounces away off the heads of Shannon O'Brien. Thumbs up from her for the ball in. O'Brien just getting herself over it a little bit too much. Couldn't just compose herself in terms of the run, but again, very threatening. A good start from Leicester. Real kind of positivity from Leicester as they try and get an equaliser, but now it is up the pitch. Ball finds a save. And she's being shut down. As she shoots wide in the end, it will just take one moment, won't it? West Ham are ahead. Leicester trying to equalise, but the home side have to be aware of this threat of a counterattack. This is from Martinez! And West Ham have a second! Cutting in from the left-hand side! A brilliant strike to extend the Hammers' lead at the King Power. 63 on the clock! It's Leicester City nil! West Ham two! Ball play there to Martinez on the left-hand side. She's a right forward. She wants to cut in there. She puts it perfectly into the side of the net. Versailles turned back to Bellamou. Now with Gorey, who starts to strike. Well, stopped by Clark. West Ham at the moment are heading towards a victory. And it hasn't been long since they've had a change of head coach, but how much of a difference can somebody make in a short period of time? Yeah, it is. It's really difficult, as we know. Gorey, you know, she's had, you know, been a top, top coach in Italy and has won four titles with Juventus. And, listen, she's had, they've dominated there. Here it's with Mooshaw! Leicester City back into this game. And it's a debut goal from Alicia Lehman that gives the home side hope. Kane playing it wide to Mooshaw. Absolutely brilliant ball in. It's actually an own goal from Nystrom. But, again, it's the quality, the danger of the ball. Lehman making the run. If she also doesn't make the run, it's no threat. Now Mooshaw still with Mooshaw. Encouraged by the home defense, plays it back to Tierney. Now it's McLaughlin who's there. A save late on. And Leicester City with a chance to equalize with seconds left on the clock. Mooshaw turns, deflects up into the air of Nystrom and Schemmach has to claw it away. Another save. She might well have injured herself. And that's it. A brilliant free kick from Hans Mooshaw. And then a second goal of the game from Shakira Martinez. An own goal to give Leicester hope in the latter stages. Rita Guarino, though, wins her first league game in charge of West Ham. Leicester City 1, West Ham United 2. Rita, three points. That first win away from home this season for West Ham. How are we feeling? I'm feeling well. You know, we play a very good first half. Then we start well. We start not very really well, but we stay on the game. We score again. And then we stand at the end. So very, very happy. I think the performance was there in terms of large parts of games we've dominated with a ball. So you can see the effect of the new signing as well. So everything's progressing. Obviously the outcome, the result, we're very, very disappointed with because on both goals we could have done a lot better with in terms of individual battles. So the glossary is, yeah, it's gone well, but the outcome isn't. And we're all disappointed. So then we'll reflect and we'll make sure that we're in a good place for the week ahead with the training and preparing for a game in a fortnight.