Arsenal 2-1 Manchester City: Katie McCabe gives hosts comeback win in WSL title race

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Arsenal's Katie McCabe celebrates scoring their 2nd  extremity   v Manchester CityKatie McCabe completed Arsenal's comeback with a superb strike

Katie McCabe scored a stunning victor arsenic Arsenal came from down to bushed Manchester City and support their Women's Super League rubric hopes alive.

The comeback completes a memorable week for the Gunners aft they bushed Bayern Munich to scope the Champions League semi-finals and, having already won the League Cup, they stay successful the hunt for a treble.

City were good connected apical successful the archetypal fractional and took the pb done Khadija Shaw, who recovered the acold country with a fantastic header to extremity a flowing determination successful the 5th minute.

Lauren Hemp had the accidental to treble the pb precocious successful the fractional but sliced her changeable precocious implicit the barroom from adjacent range, having been near wholly unmarked astatine the acold post.

The miss proved costly arsenic a much-improved Arsenal deed backmost aft the interruption and Frida Maanum equalised successful the 62nd infinitesimal aft a scramble successful the City box.

Both sides pushed for the winner, but with the crippled successful the balance, it was the Gunners who struck the decisive stroke arsenic McCabe collected a abbreviated country and rifled a fantastic decorativeness into the acold apical corner.

City pushed for an equaliser but Shaw deed their champion accidental implicit with 5 minutes to spell arsenic Gareth Taylor's broadside succumbed to their archetypal WSL decision successful 15 games - a tally stretching backmost to September erstwhile they mislaid to Chelsea.

Jonas Eidevall's broadside moved level connected points with City - 3 down leaders Manchester United - but leapfrogged the visitors into 2nd spot connected extremity quality arsenic a thrilling rubric contention took different twist.

More to follow.

Line-ups

Arsenal Women

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 14D'Angelo
  • 16MaritzSubstituted forBeattieat 69'minutes
  • 3Wubben-Moy
  • 2Carvalho Souza
  • 15McCabeBooked astatine 10mins
  • 6Williamson
  • 13WältiBooked astatine 70mins
  • 21PelovaSubstituted forKühlat 68'minutes
  • 12Maanum
  • 19FoordSubstituted forWienroitherat 36'minutes
  • 25BlacksteniusSubstituted forTaylorat 69'minutes

Substitutes

  • 1Zinsberger
  • 5Beattie
  • 18Marckese
  • 20Queiroz Costa
  • 22Kühl
  • 26Wienroither
  • 27Taylor
  • 62Reid

Man City Women

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 1Roebuck
  • 14Morgan
  • 6Houghton
  • 5Greenwood
  • 4AleixandriSubstituted forCasparijat 82'minutes
  • 25Hasegawa
  • 12AngeldahlSubstituted forFowlerat 88'minutes
  • 9KellySubstituted forRasoat 81'minutes
  • 7CoombsSubstituted forCastellanosat 82'minutes
  • 11Hemp
  • 21Shaw

Substitutes

  • 2Casparij
  • 8Fowler
  • 10Castellanos
  • 13Raso
  • 15Ouahabi
  • 22MacIver
  • 42Dahou

Referee:Abigail Byrne

Attendance:3,980

Live Text

  1. Match ends, Arsenal Women 2, Manchester City Women 1.

  2. Second Half ends, Arsenal Women 2, Manchester City Women 1.

  3. Attempt missed. Kerstin Casparij (Manchester City Women) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container misses to the left. Assisted by Mary Fowler.

  4. Corner, Arsenal Women. Conceded by Kerstin Casparij.

  5. Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.

  6. Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Khadija Shaw (Manchester City Women).

  7. Foul by Kerstin Casparij (Manchester City Women).

  8. Jodie Taylor (Arsenal Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

  9. Delay over. They are acceptable to continue.

  10. Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Frida Maanum (Arsenal Women).

  11. Attempt blocked. Stephanie Houghton (Manchester City Women) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked.

  12. Yui Hasegawa (Manchester City Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

  13. Foul by Jodie Taylor (Arsenal Women).

  14. Substitution, Manchester City Women. Mary Fowler replaces Filippa Angeldahl.

  15. Yui Hasegawa (Manchester City Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.

  16. Foul by Jodie Taylor (Arsenal Women).

  17. Attempt missed. Khadija Shaw (Manchester City Women) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is excessively high. Assisted by Hayley Raso.

  18. Alex Greenwood (Manchester City Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  19. Foul by Lia Wälti (Arsenal Women).

  20. Offside, Arsenal Women. Katie McCabe tries a done ball, but Jodie Taylor is caught offside.

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