Arsenal 2-3 Manchester United: Gunners' perfect WSL start ended by late Alessia Russo winner

Arsenal had won 14 consecutive WSL matches earlier facing Manchester United

Manchester United produced a stunning precocious comeback to extremity Arsenal's 100% commencement successful the Women's Super League.

They equalised erstwhile Frida Maanum's changeable took a deflection disconnected Maya Le Tissier, earlier Laura Wienroither looked to person earned a 15th consecutive league win.

But headers by Millie Turner and Alessia Russo successful the last 5 minutes completed a sensational turnaround.

It ends a 14-game league winning tally for Arsenal, portion United showed wherefore they could beryllium existent rubric contenders nether brag Marc Skinner.

Inspired by Toone from midfield, they secured a triumph which moved them level connected 18 points with Arsenal and Chelsea astatine the apical of the WSL.

Remarkable ending connected a immense WSL weekend

With nary men's Premier League enactment this play and the World Cup yet to start, the WSL was successful the spotlight connected Saturday - and an bonzer extremity to this crippled ensured that absorption was not wasted.

After an inert archetypal half, Arsenal were sparked into beingness 37 seconds aft half-time.

Maanum ran with the shot from wrong her ain half, and the Norwegian's changeable was heading disconnected people until it flew disconnected the backmost bottommost of Le Tissier and into the other country implicit the helpless Mary Earps.

Vivianne Miedema was introduced to immense cheers with conscionable implicit fractional an hr near to play, but it was the overmuch little heralded Wienroither who looked to person scored the victor with 17 minutes left, racing connected to a heavy transverse from full-back spouse Katie McCabe and brilliantly half-volleying location from 10 yards.

However United battled each nighttime and took the triumph with 2 headers from set-pieces.

On 85 minutes, Katie Zelem enactment a free-kick connected a six pence and Turner thumped a header against the crossbar and implicit the line.

The turnaround was past completed successful stoppage clip arsenic Russo turned the shot into the country of the net, sparking celebrations successful a packed distant end.

Arsenal tally ends astatine 14

Both Arsenal men and women were apical of their respective leagues going into this weekend, and the buzz astir Emirates Stadium pre-match was astir the anticipation of a unsocial treble this season.

Arsenal had won 14 consecutive league games going into this match, but successful an inert opening 45 minutes they were wholly stifled by United.

England's Beth Mead, Jordan Nobbs and Lotte Wubben-Moy each started, but the Lionesses failed to roar arsenic United dominated possession and took a deserved pb pursuing a goalkeeper error.

Arsenal's Manuela Zinsberger had made a good aboriginal prevention to thenar distant a Leah Galton effort, but she had already skewed 1 punch earlier she flapped astatine Hayley Ladd's 39th-minute transverse from the byline, allowing Toone to side-foot home.

So mediocre were Arsenal successful the archetypal half, the brightest infinitesimal came erstwhile the location fans enactment connected a airy amusement with their mobile telephone torches.

They improved markedly successful the 2nd half, nevertheless were yet outfought by a United broadside who had won their opening 5 games earlier a 3-1 location decision to Chelsea a fortnight agone saw them gaffe to 3rd successful the table.

This clip they kept their content arsenic they prevented Arsenal's silky beforehand 3 from getting into immoderate benignant of groove, earlier earning 3 points successful genuinely melodramatic circumstances.

And determination were worrying scenes astatine the extremity for the Gunners arsenic Mead was seen successful tears aft being substituted with an injury.

Skinner had called for "brains connected seats" earlier the game, meaning that women's shot has to pull dedicated fans alternatively than time trippers.

If the 40,064 spectators astatine this crippled person immoderate sense, they volition surely deliberation to travel backmost for much aft that spectacular conclusion.

• Relive Saturday's WSL enactment unrecorded here.