Chelsea hammer dismal Liverpool 9-1 and storm into Women’s League Cup semis

• Quarter-final: Liverpool 1-9 Chelsea

• Rytting Kaneryd scores hat-trick as Blues run riot

It is not supposed to be this easy, in a quarter-final between two top-flight sides. Chelsea barely broke sweat as they put nine goals past woeful Liverpool, including a hat-trick from Johanna Rytting Kaneryd and two goals from an in-form Sam Kerr.

It took just 13 minutes for Chelsea to take the lead. Niamh Charles’s low ball into the box found Kerr, who darted in front of her marker with ease and found the near, bottom corner.