London City Lionesses 5, Leicester City 1.

London City Lionesses produced a five-star display to defeat Leicester City on a sunny afternoon at the CopperJax Community Stadium. 

Sunday 26th April | CopperJax Community Stadium, Bromley

The home side came from behind courtesy of a fine attacking performance in their penultimate home match of the 2025/26 season. 

First half goals from Spain international Lucía Corrales, her first for the club, and Isobel Goodwin put the team ahead after Shannon O’Brien had given Rick Passmoor’s outfit the lead.

Second half strikes from Malou Marcetto and Grace Geyoro - their first in London City colours - extended the lead before Freya Godfrey added a fifth.

The home side enjoyed long spells of possession in the opening stages with the visitors a threat on the break. 

On her 100th WSL appearance, Leicester captain Sam Tierney had a big chance to open the scoring for the league’s basement side, popping up in the box but unable to steer her attempt home. 

The Foxes took the lead just after the half-hour mark, O'Brien picked up the ball with her back to goal, skipped past two challenges and slotted into the far corner beyond the reaches of Elene Lete.

Eder Maestre’s side responded immediately. The experienced Nikita Parris charged forward through the middle at pace, picked out Corrales, whose looping cross-come-shot drifted towards the back post and floated over Foxes keeper Olivia Clark into the back of the net.

With their tails up, the home side came close to taking the lead as stopper Clark couldn’t gather a corner under her crossbar but no one was able to meet the ball. 

London City were a constant threat from corners and on the stroke half-time, another dangerous delivery from the left from Delphine Cascarino fell to the feet of Goodwin who prodded home past several pink shirts on the line.

Maestre’s outfit began the second period on the front foot and attacked with fluency.

France midfielder Geyoro saw an effort disallowed after Leicester cleared a corner as she was standing in an offside position when Jana Fernández hooked the ball back in.

They were not to be denied for long, though. The influential Corrales' run and cutback from the left found Marcetto to sidefoot a volley home. 

Geyoro did get on the scoresheet in the 87th minute, slotting into the bottom corner before substitute Godfrey then put the icing on the cake, steering home a fifth two minutes later.

The result means London City sit seventh in the Barclays Women’s Super League table.

London City travel to Tottenham before hosting Aston Villa (Saturday 16th May) in Bromley in the final match of the 2025/26 season.

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Head coach Eder Maestre said: “I’m very happy with the result and the performance. 

“We know these games are always difficult and it started that way when we went behind. We showed good character to react to going behind, the reaction was perfect. 

“We are very proud of the team. The performance and also the result and I’m delighted with how the team played today.

“We were always looking for the next goal instead of trying to manage the result. The energy was there and we were always thinking about the next attack, it’s a complete game and I’m very, very happy.

“We are working hard in every training session. It’s about doing the same things.

“We have another big game against Tottenham and we want and are determined to keep improving.”

Teamsheet: Lete, Fernández, Kardinaal, Corrales (Imuran 90'), Kumagai, Parris (Pattinson 71'), Cascarino (Godfrey 65'), Goodwin (Franssi 90'), Marcetto (Pérez 71'), Kennedy, Geyoro.