For more information see our Privacy Policy. Privacy Notice: Newsletters may contain info about charities, online ads, and content funded by outside parties. At Kingsmeadow again, this time for a resurgent Leicester, who are looking to pull off a great escape having lifted themselves off the bottom of the table, Harder exploited space on the right and whipped the ball in for Guro Reiten to turn in on the volley for an early lead. She extended Chelsea’s lead to three against Everton within a minute of coming on. The beauty of Harder, who is rumoured to be leaving the Blues along with her partner Magda Eriksson in the summer, is that as well as being effective in tight games she is deadly at running up scorelines and alleviating the pressure on a tired and injury-hit squad. You want somebody like that on your team, you want somebody like that to make a difference and it’s players like her who can be the difference-makers in games which are such fine margins.”
In her first start since sustaining a hamstring injury that required surgery during November’s international break, the 30-year-old was viciously efficient. Harder scored twice and provided an assist in Chelsea’s thrashing of Everton on Sunday after coming off the bench to replace an injured Sam Kerr in the 32nd minute. It is only perhaps when you watch Chelsea with Harder after months without her, that you are reminded of just how important she is, and why her return for the final few weeks of the season could be the difference between Chelsea limping or swaggering towards the Double. Chelsea midfielder Erin Cuthbert told women’s football platform Girls on the Ball in the week: “If I saw Pernille Harder coming off the bench, I’d be terrified.”
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