Halfway through the 2022-23 Women’s Super League season with Chelsea top of the table, is it too soon to declare them the winners after the Blues’ closest rivals dropped points again over the weekend?
The proposition for the teams at the top of the WSL will always be to navigate the season with as few points dropped as possible, with the acceptance that winning every single league game is a stretch. However, we’ve seen teams go entire seasons without losing a game — Arsenal in 2012, Manchester City in 2016 and Chelsea in 2017-18 and 2019-20 — and indeed, there is a lot a team can gain from a draw, especially if it’s one snatched from the claws of defeat.
Yet, a draw can also be a sizable blow. Arsenal fans might remember from their 2017-18 campaign how a scoreless draw against Yeovil Town dented their title chances and in isolation — due to finishing a point behind Manchester City — kept them out of the Champions League the next season, even though it was one of just seven games they failed to win.
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With stalemates for second-place Manchester United and third-place Arsenal on Sunday, it’s reasonable to wonder if, at this point in the season, this will be one draw too many for each side as they chase Chelsea at the top of the…
