We Fought Until The End, Says Keane

All News

Men

Women

Internationals

Interviews & Features

Heritage

Photos

We Fought Until The End, Says Keane

Katie Keane labelled her home debut a dream come true, but stated there is still work to be done after a 3-1 loss to Chelsea.

2026-05-05T11:45+01:00

by Matthew Temple

Published

05 May, 2026

We Fought Until The End, Says Keane

Katie Keane labelled her home debut a dream come true, but stated there is still work to be done after a 3-1 loss to Chelsea.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-05T11:45+01:00

We Fought Until The End, Says Keane

Katie Keane labelled her home debut a dream come true, but stated there is still work to be done after a 3-1 loss to Chelsea.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-05T11:45+01:00

We Fought Until The End, Says Keane

Katie Keane labelled her home debut a dream come true, but stated there is still work to be done after a 3-1 loss to Chelsea.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-05T11:45+01:00

We Fought Until The End, Says Keane

Katie Keane labelled her home debut a dream come true, but stated there is still work to be done after a 3-1 loss to Chelsea.

Matthew Temple

2026-05-05T11:45+01:00

LCFC Women beaten in final Barclays WSL game at King Power Stadium
Shannon O’Brien scored a consolation in Sunday's 3-1 defeat
Goalkeeper Katie Keane reacted to making her full debut for the Foxes

Three goals within the first half hour gave the reigning Barclays Women's Super League champions a commanding lead at King Power Stadium, but the Foxes rallied to get a goal back and keep it a contest.

Latching onto a loose pass from Lucy Bronze, Shannon O’Brien scored her sixth goal of the season, which would end up being the last goal of the match, too.

Speaking on the immense challenge of facing one of the world’s best sides, the 19-year-old remained proud of her team's effort, especially in the second half.

“The first three goals are class finishes from them, and there’s not a lot you can do about that,” Keane explained. “Sometimes this happens in football.

Katie Keane made her home debut against Chelsea.

“But we take it one game at a time, and I’m proud of the girls for how we reacted and dealt with that. Obviously, it was my debut at home, and it was a good game for me so delighted my family could see it.

It’s been an incredible week for our young ‘keeper, who was brought in at half-time against Arsenal in midweek, then made her home debut against Chelsea four days later.

“I’m just a young girl from Ireland going up against them (Sam Kerr and Lauren James), but it’s incredible and a dream come true really,” the shot-stopper continued.

“It’s not the scoreline that we wanted but we are all focused on everything after that, it’s that play-off game to keep us up because we don’t want to go anywhere.

“Sam Tierney is an amazing character and captain, when that third goal went in, we said, right that’s enough, we’ve got to stick together, and fight and Rick [Passmoor] reiterated that in the dressing room.

“You can see the heart, and we kept fighting until the very end.”

The 19-year-old spoke about taking confidence into the play-off game.

Our place at the bottom of the table has already been confirmed, meaning we will face Charlton Athletic at the Valley on Saturday 23 May in a play-off.

With one final regular season game to come beforehand, against Everton at Goodison Park, the Ireland Under-19 international hopes the second half against Chelsea can give us confidence heading into the final two.

Keane added: “It’s hard, when you’re low on confidence, to come out after that game on Wednesday but as a team, we needed to keep fighting.

“We may have lost a few of our mini battles on the day, but I think we made up for that in the second half.

“We deserve better than what we’ve got this season, we stick together and you should see how we are in the dressing room at King Power Stadium, we just love each other to bits and we’re a family.

“The last two games are huge, and we need to keep fighting. It’s cliché but we always say that Foxes never quit, and that has to be our mentality going forward.”

LATEST HEADLINES

James, O'Brien & Lehmann Among End Of Season Award Winners Jordan James collected three honours in our End of Season Awards as he claimed the Men’s Player of the Season, Players’ Player of the Season and Young Player of the Season.

15 Hours 42 Mins Ago

Grounds Team Recognised With EFL Award We have been recognised at the 2025/26 EFL Awards for our playing surface at King Power Stadium with the Sky Bet Championship Grounds Team of the Season award.

18 Hours 42 Mins Ago

Braybrooke Set For Play-Off Semi-Final Showdown Sammy Braybrooke is in line to play a part as Chesterfield enter the Sky Bet League Two Play-Offs this week.

19 Hours 42 Mins Ago

On-Loan Cartwright Nets Falkirk Winner Henry Cartwright scored the only goal of the game as Falkirk recorded a 1-0 home victory over Motherwell on Saturday.

05 May, 2026