Aston Villa 0-1 Chelsea: What the managers said
Sarah Mayling conceded a late own goal to deny Aston Villa a battling point against Women's Super League leaders Chelsea as the Blues continued their formidable winning run. Here is what the managers had to say after the game:
Chelsea manager Sonia Bompastor, speaking to BBC Sport: "I would say again satisfied about the result but not about the performance. I think credit to Villa, they were really well organised and they wanted more to have a good result today than us.
"Sometimes it happens in football, you can not be any time 100% but yeah we need to take this as a lesson and learn form that because today I think it was a lucky win.
"I told them at the end when you are not able to perform at 100% you always have to find a way to win the game and I think this is what we did today.
"Not easy again but the best teams have the power to do that and I think this season we are really efficient and clinical in front of goal. We had not a lot of opportunities but the ones we created we were able at least to score once.
Aston Villa manager Natalia Arroyo: "We feel disappointed because we were so, so close. It's not a game where deserving or not deserving really makes the difference. I'm unhappy because the girls were pushing really hard and it's a strange goal.
"[It is] quite cruel but that's probably the welcome to this league. I'm very proud of our performance, how we were able to stop the ball and also have the ball and find some gaps to make them suffer.
"Even when we didn't get the points, to get the feeling that the strongest team in the league struggled at Villa Park is good for us."