5 hundred and eighty 5 days. 34 Girls’s Tremendous League video games. Lastly, Chelsea’s unbeaten home league run is at an finish.

On a day when Manchester Metropolis toiled earlier than discovering a method to win, Chelsea had been unable to do the identical.

The upshot is that Metropolis are actually six factors clear on the prime of the WSL, and all of the sudden a primary league title since 2016 looks like it’s theirs to lose.

In fact, it will be silly to make any remaining calls now. Metropolis followers will wince remembering the top of 2023-24, when a late loss at dwelling to Arsenal noticed the title slip kind their grasp into Chelsea’s arms.

That defeat got here after the Blues appeared to have misplaced their grip on the trophy with a dramatic 4-3 defeat by Liverpool. It was the final time that they had misplaced within the WSL, till Sunday.

That was when Everton, the opposite Merseyside workforce, accomplished a smash and seize at Kingsmeadow which lacked the objectives of the sport on Could 1, 2024, however was no much less missing in drama.

Sonia Bompastor’s first WSL defeat got here in a recreation throughout which Chelsea had 30 photographs on purpose, 18 corners and 61 touches within the Everton field.

“You may see that frustration and perhaps that little little bit of self-doubt and with that, they began to grab at possibilities and we noticed that a bit bit within the second half and later within the recreation,” former England worldwide Fara Williams informed BBC Sport. “You may see the boldness deteriorating with this Chelsea workforce within the second half.

“We created alternatives to win the sport, so it is actually disappointing outcome,” Bompastor informed the BBC. “That occurs typically in soccer, it was not a foul efficiency, however at this time we could not rating and win the sport.

“For those who have a look at the stats when it comes to possession, possibilities created and different stats, we had full management of the sport. The one factor was we could not rating.”

It appeared within the remaining levels that they’d play till Chelsea scored, with play persevering with past the allotted extra time as Toffees boss Brian Sorensen waved and roared in frustration on the sidelines.

However, with the crossbar nonetheless shaking from Sandy Baltimore’s 98th-minute free-kick, referee Rebecca Welch blew her whistle and the run was over.