Chelsea vs Manchester City LIVE: Women’s League Cup final latest score and goal updates

5 minutes: Millie Vibrant finally came visiting and gave Khadija Shaw a bit of pat on the again because the Manchester Metropolis striker sat again up following that heavy problem from the Chelsea captain .

That definitely units the tone for his or her particular person battle over this cup closing, and the following two weeks.

6 minutes: Vivianna Miedema sends the ball slickly via midfield as much as Jill Roord.

Roord brings it ahead and provides it to Mary Fowler on the left aspect of the field.

Fowler floats in a cross however Sandy Baltimore is there to nod it away for Chelsea.

4 minutes: Khadija (Bunny) Shaw feels a giant problem from Millie Vibrant and stays down.

The Man Metropolis ahead wants a little bit of remedy however is again on her toes and may proceed.

She grimaces and rubs her proper knee but it surely fantastic because the match resumes.

3 minutes: Chelsea work the ball effectively via the center of the pitch and get it as much as Mayra Ramirez.

She pokes it throughout to Johanna Rytting-Kaneryd on the left wing and the ahead sweeps as much as the Man Metropolis field.

She seems to be for the pull again however the cross is intercepted and cleared away.

Let’s get right down to enterprise. The Ladies’s League Cup closing will get underway with Manchester Metropolis rolling the ball to goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita.

She boots it lengthy however Millie Vibrant is there to nod the ball clear.

The groups have made their manner out onto the pitch for the pre-match displays.

There are round 16,000 followers watching on from inside the bottom at Pleasure Park.

The nationwide anthem is performed as effectively.

An honest effort from the WPLL, organisers of the League Cup, to make a spectacle forward of kick-off, with big flags of the 2 membership crests on the pitch at Pleasure Park.

Attendance is taking a look at round 15,000, which is down from Arsenal’s assembly with Chelsea in Wolverhampton final season.

Sonia Bompastor couldn’t have made a greater begin to life at Chelsea however will know her first season is getting into crunch time.

Chelsea have performed 27 matches in all competitions, registering 25 wins and simply two attracts within the Ladies’s Tremendous League – they’ve but to style defeat below the French coach.

In consequence, they enter March alive in all 4 competitions. In addition to the League Cup closing, they’re within the Champions League quarter-finals and FA Cup semi-finals, the place they play Liverpool. Additionally they maintain a eight-point lead within the WSL with six video games left this season.

Arsenal’s victory over Chelsea in final yr’s Ladies’s League Cup closing was greatest remembered for the explosive post-match handshake between Emma Hayes and Jonas Eidevall, with the previous Chelsea supervisor accusing the now departed Arsenal boss of displaying “male aggression” on the touchline after shoving him on the finish of the match.

I might extremely doubt that we see such scenes between Sonia Bompastor and Nick Cushing immediately….

One of many oddities of the Ladies’s League Cup is that these groups who play in Europe, similar to Chelsea and Man Metropolis, skip the group phases, making them appear fairly irrelevant when each finalists didn’t even characteristic within the first section of the competitions.

In any case, Chelsea thrashed Durham 5-0 after which beat West Ham 2-0 within the semi-finals.

Manchester Metropolis’s path was a lot harder: they defeats rivals Manchester United 2-1 away from dwelling, after which surprised Arsenal within the semi-finals due to Mary Fowler’s ninety fifth minute winner.