Chelsea Women: Top-five goals of the 2022/2023 campaign

This past season for the Chelsea Women delivered plenty of highlight worthy moments as the team once again secured a domestic double.

In a campaign where the men’s side of Chelsea Football Club failed to deliver, the Chelsea Women pieced together yet another season filled with numerous team and individual successes. No side in the Women’s Super League scored more goals than Emma Hayes’ side, so there are so many world-class strikes that deserve recognition. The UEFA Women’s Champions League, FA Cup, and Conti Cup featured remarkable finishes throughout, making the creation of a respectable top-five goals list this season a tall task.

You can pick out a few from the men’s team, but on the women’s side, they continuously delivered each week with empathic strikes that found the back of the net. Sometimes it is about the significance, but other times it is about the quality of the build or the shot itself. Here are the top-five goals across all competitions from this past campaign by the Blues:

Top-five goals of the Chelsea Women’s 2022/2023 campaign.

5. Lauren James at Tottenham Hotspur

Competition: Women’s Super League

Date: February 5, 2023

If you had to select one solo goal of the season, this would be it. Coming off two consecutive triumphs in cup competitions, the Blues headed to Brisbane Road to take on their north London rivals in the WSL. It was first league match for Hayes’ side in February. Jess Carter went on to find the back of the net in the 8′, but former the west Londoner herself Bethany England equalized just eight minutes later with a tap-in finish.

Kadeisha Buchanan’s error playing out the back would soon be forgotten when Lauren James received the ball on the right flank in the 27′. It was the English international in a nutshell. Using her grace, speed, and intelligence with the ball at her feet, James danced through the entire Spurs’ defense before firing her left-footed strike into the bottom right corner. For some reason no defender stepped to cause any concern for James who made a difficult run into a dangerous area looked relatively routine.

Sophie Ingle should thank the Blues’ No. 10 for gifting her an assist after she did all the hard work in the final third. It was James’ fourth goal of the WSL season, and the third of four in the league in which she netted with her weaker foot. Even if someone had challenged the English attacker, James’ strength on the ball would have allowed her to continue her run through contact anyway. The west London outfit would go into the dressing room up by a goal because of that moment of individual brilliance instead of coming out with a lot more work to do. She may not have scored many goals across all competitions this past season, but when she did, they were worthy of multiple rewatches.