Chelsea Extend Wsl Lead To Six Points - When Could They Win It?

As nan Women's Super League enters nan last fewer weeks of nan season, Chelsea stay successful nan driving spot for a sixth successive title.

Their lead was trim to 3 points pursuing Arsenal's 5-1 triumph complete Leicester past Tuesday, but Sonia Bompastor's Blues thrashed Crystal Palace 4-0 connected Wednesday to move six points clear again.

Manchester United missed their chance to put nan unit connected complete nan play arsenic they drew 0-0 pinch West Ham.

United's tie gave Manchester City a small assistance successful their uphill conflict to declare a Champions League spot - but they wasted their chance to adjacent nan spread arsenic they drew 1-1 pinch Everton connected Sunday.

City are 7 points down their third-placed neighbours but still person to play United.

At nan different extremity of nan table, Crystal Palace are 7 points adrift of Aston Villa and Leicester, and could beryllium relegated if they suffer to West Ham connected Sunday.

How are things shaping up for nan remaining games? Who has nan tougher run-in?

There person been nary signs of teething problems for Chelsea this play nether caller leader Bompastor, arsenic their convention power - established nether predecessor Emma Hayes - has continued.

Unbeaten successful nan WSL this season, Chelsea person 51 points from a imaginable 57, though 2 draws successful March allowed closest challengers Arsenal to get wrong 3 points and Manchester United wrong five.

The highest full Arsenal could decorativeness pinch is 54 points, meaning Chelsea request 4 much to guarantee nan title.

Because of their Champions League semi-final participation, Chelsea's WSL crippled astatine Manchester United has been rearranged for 30 April.

They could clinch nan title pinch triumph complete United (20:15 BST kick-off) should Arsenal driblet points against Aston Villa earlier that evening (18:00).

Yet if nan Gunners triumph each of their fixtures, nan earliest Chelsea could beryllium crowned champions is successful their penultimate crippled of nan play distant to Tottenham connected 4 May.

Manchester City, who challenged Chelsea until nan last time past season, are now mathematically retired of nan title title and only person slim hopes of achieving a Champions League spot.

Even if City triumph each their remaining games - including against their neighbours - 1 triumph from United's different 2 matches would beryllium capable for them to decorativeness third.

From adjacent season, nan Women's Champions League format is changing, pinch nan number of teams earning nonstop qualification expanding from 4 teams to nine.

The winners of nan WSL will straight qualify, on pinch nan champions from nan different 5 top-ranked nationalist associations.

The runners-up of nan 2 top-ranked associations will besides beryllium guaranteed nonstop qualification, on pinch nan erstwhile season's winners.

At present, nan WSL is ranked second, external so, arsenic it stands, nan apical 2 teams will automatically participate nan 18-team convention format, pinch nan squad successful 3rd going into nan qualifying rounds.

Crystal Palace look destined to return to nan Championship aft struggling to accommodate during their first play successful England's apical division.

A 3-1 triumph complete chap strugglers Villa gave Leif Smerud's broadside dream but they are 7 points adrift and will beryllium relegated if they neglect to hit West Ham connected Sunday.

Villa are now almost safe aft beating Liverpool astatine nan extremity of March earlier a dramatic last-gasp triumph against Tottenham connected Sunday accrued their buffer to 7 points.

Leicester will dream their seven-point cushion is enough. They person played a crippled more, which they mislaid 5-1 to Arsenal, but it would require a large turnaround from Palace to nonstop nan Foxes down.

Marc Skinner's Manchester United look 3 of nan apical 4 teams arsenic they look to heap unit connected Chelsea and support their Champions League place.

The Manchester derby connected nan penultimate time of nan play could beryllium cardinal successful nan title for Europe.

The fixture database has fixed City interim leader Nick Cushing origin for optimism.

"Once that's mathematically intolerable past it is what it is, but until past we're going to conflict correct until nan end," he said.

"We cognize we person to play Manchester United, we cognize Manchester United person to decorativeness pinch Chelsea, america and Arsenal."

Opta's 'supercomputer' prediction exemplary has Chelsea arsenic nailed-on favourites to assistance nan WSL trophy - they are projected arsenic champions successful 97.9% of simulations.

Arsenal, meanwhile, person been fixed a slither of hope, pinch Opta giving them a 2.1% chance of winning nan title.

Manchester City's bid for European shot does not look favourable either, pinch Cushing's broadside predicted to decorativeness extracurricular of nan apical 3 in 88.1% of simulations.

According to Opta's predictions, Amandine Miquel's Leicester person each but confirmed their enactment successful nan WSL for different season, pinch only a 0.2% chance of relegation.

The stats besides favour Villa, pinch them having a 0.1% chance of going down.

It's a worrying communicative for Crystal Palace. They person a 99.6% chance of sitting bottommost of nan array connected 10 May.