Chelsea boss Emma Hayes insists she does not have time to monitor the Women’s Super League table, despite a scenario that could see her team seal a fourth successive title on Sunday.
The Blues, who sit in second place and have just lifted their third successive FA Cup, are a point behind Manchester United but have a game less than the league leaders, who have just two games left in their campaign.
That means victory against West Ham on Wednesday and Arsenal on Sunday would be enough for Chelsea if United fail to beat Manchester City on the penultimate day of the season.
Hayes insisted that he is unaware of how involved his players could be in potential swaps, saying: “I promise I have so much to do that I’m not aware of some of their ridiculous conversations, thank goodness.
“Anyway, they don’t want me to be a part of them. We’re all football fans too, but I know the dressing room and as far as we’re concerned, we’re in control of what we want to do and that’s I think everything in that we focus
“I didn’t even realize we could come out on top if we won tomorrow until someone told me yesterday, so you’re asking the wrong person about all that stuff. I don’t pay attention to them because your head gets away with it.” “. you, from what I’ve learned now – I never look at them.
West Ham are still in search of a first league win in 2023.
Manager Paul Konchesky said: “It’s a difficult moment, for me, it’s a difficult moment for them and for the whole group at the club. We know we’re going through a difficult moment, but there are matches where we’ve been very close.” . to win and we haven’t won, it looks even worse when we haven’t scored points.
“We haven’t been out of any games, we’ve been in most of the games we’ve played and it just hasn’t turned around for us.”
Arsenal are fighting to keep their place in the Champions League for one more season after selling out the Emirates Stadium for their semi-final against Wolfsburg earlier this month.
With three European places available, Jonas Eidevall will be hoping to put some distance between his third-place finisher and Manchester City below them when the Gunners travel to Everton.
Arsenal are level on 44 points with City but have played one game less and also have a better goal difference.
Eidevall anticipates that Tuesday’s opponents will be ready to bounce back from their thumping 7-0 loss to defending champions Chelsea last time out.
He said: “I always expect our opponents to be fully motivated. I expect us to be fully motivated as well, so my expectations are never any different from that. I don’t want to draw too many conclusions from last week’s result.”
“There were performances in that game that were good by Everton, and there were performances that weren’t as good, like in any football game you play, so we just have to prepare our way to play the game.”
Everton manager Brian Sorensen eased fears that City loanee and England international Jess Park could be left out of World Cup consideration with the same shoulder injury that forced her to miss the rest of the season. national campaign.
He said: “No, it’s a six-week injury and it was three weeks ago now. She should be ready to go out on the pitch when we play the last game against City, I think that’s the schedule. That’s the last one.” I have heard. She’s back in town, it’s in her hands. But last time I spoke to her, it shouldn’t affect him, so fingers crossed for that.”
The sixth-placed Toffees are assured of another season in the top flight but, with 27 points, they are out of European competition.
