Chelsea Women: Top-five moments throughout the 2023 calendar year
2. Magdalena Eriksson finds the back of the net in her final home game for Chelsea Women
Date: May 21, 2023
Against the club's most bitter rivals. In front of a passionate fanbase. With a goal to a top it all off. You could not have scripted a better ending for the Swedish international Eriksson to her CFCW career if you tried. It was storybook type stuff. The Blues kept the title in their own hands that day, assuring that a win over bottom of the table Reading was enough to seal the deal.
Her finish just minutes before the halftime whistle blew was just her fourth WSL goal since 2020. A captain's goal, if you will. Scrappy, but just in time. Set up by the combination of Kerr and Guro Reiten, the Swede put the finishing touches on what became the clinching goal against the Gunners. In fact, it was the first-ever time in her remarkable career in CFC blue that she found the back of the net against the north Londoners in the league.
Captain fantastic π¦ΈββοΈ
β BBC Sport (@BBCSport) May 21, 2023
Magdalena Eriksson, in her penultimate Chelsea game, has doubled Chelsea's lead.
A big step towards the title.
π΅ Chelsea 2-0 Arsenal π΄
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It was an afternoon at Kingsmeadow that no Chelsea Women's fan will forget. Harder and Eriksson had a chance to bid their farewell with emotional speeches to the fans at full-time. There aren't that many opportunities in sports when you get to say goodbye to legends the right way. This was the definition of the right way to do it. Singing. Celebrating. Sheer joy. It was all contagious throughout the ground on that day.