Three and easy for Chelsea against out-of-Toone rivals

As Erin Cuthbert walked around the sides of the Wembley pitch, passing in front of the Chelsea fans in the east stand, there was finally time to breathe.

- JAMIE BRAIDWOOD

Cuthbert raised her arms and the Chelsea supporters behind Phallon Tullis-Joyce’s goal responded as if in perfect synergy. In some ways, they are, given how accustomed everyone at Chelsea has become to winning, and winning like this. In Sonia Bompastor’s first season, they continued where Emma Hayes left off, while creating more history.

Three goals without reply completed the unbeaten domestic treble, with the Women’s FA Cup reclaimed to add to another Women’s Super League title and the League Cup, all won without defeat. “Everyone thinks it’s easy, but so much hard work goes into it,” Cuthbert said moments after full time on the Wembley pitch. Easy was how it looked, after Catarino Macario doubled Chelsea’s lead with a thumping late header and Sandy Baltimore wrapped it up with her second in stoppage time.

With 74,412 at Wembley, the biggest match of the season went the same way as the rest of the campaign. Chelsea were victorious, and inevitably so. Their dominance in the Women’s Super League rendered this a largely forgettable season. That is not their fault, but this wasn’t a great FA Cup final either, as that would require two teams who truly believed they could win it at kick-off.