West Ham 1-2 Aston Villa: Rachel Daly and Jordan Nobbs extend visitors' unbeaten run to six games
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Goals from Rachel Daly and Jordan Nobbs helped Aston Villa maintain their unbeaten start to 2023 with victory over West Ham in the Women's Super League.
Villa had the better of the first half and took the lead after 34 minutes when Daly swivelled and arrowed a shot into the far corner from just outside the box.
Nobbs doubled the lead on 62 minutes as she slid in to convert Kirsty Hanson's low cross at the near post after the Manchester United loanee had been freed down the left by Daly.
West Ham pulled a goal back through Viviane Asseyi. With 11 minutes left, the forward was left unmarked at the back post to head home from Dagny Brynjarsdottir's cross.
Asseyi had so nearly opened the scoring in the first half after a surging run through the middle, but saw her shot come back off the post.
The hosts upped the intensity in the closing stages as they tried to force an equaliser and, in the 96th minute, Villa goalkeeper Hannah Hampton managed to fight her way through a crowd of bodies after an initial fumble before punching the ball clear.
The win is Villa's first over West Ham in the WSL.
Carla Ward's side have now won four and drawn two matches since the turn of the year to cement themselves in fifth place, while West Ham stay seventh as their winless run stretched to five.
