London City Lionesses hit six past sorry Tottenham

Women's Super League Tottenham Hotspur 1 - 6 London City Lionesses FT Alexia Putellas won the Women's Ballon d'Or in 2021 and 2022 [Getty Images] Alexia Putellas and Kadidiatou Diani both scored twice as London City Lionesses hit six goals past Tottenham to end Spurs' unbeaten start to the Women's Super League campaign. Putellas, a two-time Women's Ballon d'Or winner and a four-time Women's Champions League winner with Barcelona, grabbed her first WSL double following her summer move from Spain. She had registered her first WSL goal in last week's 2-0 win over Brighton and only needed three minutes to open the scoring on Sunday at the BetWright Stadium. The early strike came after Grace Geyoro's strike had been parried by home goalkeeper Lize Kop, with Putellas firing in the rebound with her left foot. French forward Diani grabbed her first WSL goal in the 22nd minute when she got on the end of a fine move involving Freya Godfrey and Lucia Corrales. Putellas scored her second and London City's third in the 34th minute with a shot into the roof of the net after Danielle van de Donk did superbly to get to the byeline to the left of goal and pull the ball back. Tottenham nearly pulled a goal back just before the break through Julie Blakstad's well-struck free-kick, a left-footed attempt from 25 yards, but goalkeeper Elene Lete made an excellent save by pushing the ball on to the crossbar. Van de Donk deservedly got a goal in the 52nd minute to make it 4-0, converting Diani's low cross from the right at the near post. Tottenham immediately got one back as Victoria Pelova, a summer signing from Arsenal, scored for the fifth time in the WSL this season, controlling from Blakstad's cross and finishing well. But London City restored their four-goal advantage when Kop's clearance was charged down by Diani, who had the easy task of walking the ball into an unguarded net. London City grabbed a sixth in injury time when substitute Delphine Cascarino netted a fine individual goal, running at the home defence and performing a stepover to make space for the shot before firing past Kop. More to follow.