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Full-time: Chelsea 2-2 Manchester City
What a comeback, Mary Fowler’s goal pegging back Chelsea and Bunny Shaw completing the job. We have extra time and very possibly penalties to come.
90+9 min: City force a corner, can this be the moment?
90+8 min: A glimmer of a chance for Chelsea but Rytting Kaneryd is very slow to react when the ball is there to be hit.
90+7 min: Sam Kerr does not look too happy at being subbed off.
90+6 min: Shaw drops deep, Bronze clinging to her but unable to get the ball.
90+4 min: It’s turned into an epic. Will there be a winner before extra time? There, there will be tired legs.
90+3 min: The strength Shaw showed in holding off Bronze and Buchanan was something else. Sam Kerr has been subbed off. She will play no part in the drama to follow.
Goal! Chelsea 2-2 Manchester City (Shaw, 90+2)
The equaliser! Shaw turns and shoots, and Hampton can’t keep it out. Shaw has scored against the club she is set to join.
90 min: Hemp gives the ball away but City soon win it back. They will surely get another chance; there’s seven minutes of time added on to be played. The announcement yields boos from the home fans.
88 min: City have a spring in their step, Chelsea need to reset. Lucy Bronze, on as a sub, will aid the rearguard effort.
87 min: Could we be on for another comeback after that Brighton win against Liverpool?
Goal! Chelsea 2-1 Manchester City (Fowler, 86)
City play hurry-up offence and that change makes instant dividends as Fowler, with her first touch, smashes it where Hannah Hampton can’t reach it.
85 min: City change, off goes Ouahabi, Fowler on, an attacker for a defender, as it’s desperation stakes. There will be a longish injury time after Lauren Heap’s hooter took that blow.
84 min: Sonia Bompastor is asking her players to close this one out. Her tactical plan is going well so far.
83 min: Chelsea on a go-slow, Hannah Hampton taking her time on the ball before they launch into the attack with Sam Kerr whizzing down the flank. Then Lauren James tries from long range. There’s a smile after it whips wide.
82 min: Fujino, after Shaw creates the chance, fires wide for City.
80 min: Lauren James is booked for a hefty tackle. Chelsea changes: Thompson off, Rytting Kaneryd on.
79 min: Chelsea putting the squeeze on City, who have found it very difficult to create the chances they did towards the end of the first half.
77 min: City’s double bid is fading fast, though there’s still much to celebrate from their season. Chelsea are on course for their own double, though must beat Brighton in the final.
75 min: Shaw turns and spins, and fires over. It’s not been her day so far and the day is almost done.
73 min: Sam Kerr holds the ball up, turns and is knocked flat by City’s Rose.
72 min: Chelsea remain in full control and continue to push for more.
71 min: Thompson, who has been quieter than in the first half, goes on one of her runs, and smashes just wide. So many decent attackers in this Chelsea team.
69 min: Kerr has the ball in the net for the third time, heading in a Cuthbert ball. Offside, and this time the decision is in no doubt.
67 min: Hemp fizzes a cross across. It’s Shaw territory but she doesn’t get close.
67 min: Two City changes: Iman Beney and Aoba Fujino replace Grace Clinton and Kerstin Casparij.
66 min: Hemp continues to buzz with energy and forces a corner, though it’s wasted, with Grace Clinton not reading it.
65 min: Gordon in Aberdeen is back: “Everyone saying Chelsea were “robbed” of a second goal. It doesn’t matter if the ball was in or out - what is important is that the well-placed Assistant Ref immediately raised her flag - and all the City defenders, particularly Rose, who was about to clear the ball - stopped, with only Kerr playing on. So, not much robbery, actually.”
63 min: Changes are afoot on the City bench. Something needs to alter; Chelsea have been much the better team.
62 min: Chelsea want more. City have a mountain to climb but have plenty of firepower. Shaw turns and shoots over when she would have been better advised to let the ball run to Hemp.
60 min: You can’t hand chances like that to Sam Kerr, though perhaps an element of karma for that incorrectly disallowed goal.
Goal! Chelsea 2-0 Manchester City (Kerr, 59)
Oh, calamity, a fumble of James’ cross from Keating, the City keeper, and Sam Kerr does a Sam Kerr thing.
58 min: Hemp remains a central character, and whips the ball across. Could Kerolin have made a better effort to head that. Shaw had dropped deep to set up the move.
56 min: In the next breath, Kerr is again involved. Chelsea starting the second half like they did the first.
55 min: From the next corner, Hemp bravely blocks off Kerr.
54 min: Hemp back on, with no number on her shirt. As she arrives, she’s asked to head a ball and there’s a scramble, Sam Kerr fully involved, the ball bouncing hither and thither.
52 min: Hemp will come back on, once she’s changed her shirt.
50 min: This is a lengthy delay…and treatment continues, looks like there’s been some blood spilled. Lauren Hemp has cotton buds up her nostrils.
48 min: Hemp took an almighty clump in a collision with Ouahabi, her teammate. It looks like a head injury. Some concern for Sarina Wiegman.
46 min: Back we come into the action and the good news for City is the return of Bunny Shaw, who is straight back into the throng.
Half-time: Chelsea 1-0 Manchester City
Chelsea would be two up if the officials had not gone out for Sam Kerr’s disallowed goal. They’ve created the better chances, even if their goal had a touch of luck to it. Big half to come if City are to rescue their double bid. Will Khadija Shaw be back to play her part?
45+1 min: Looks like Shaw will be coming back on though is still rubbing her neck as she arrives, and Sam Kerr whips a shot wide from an acute angle.
45 min: There’s head shaking from Shaw, and her day could be done. She leaves the field rubbing her neck. Three minutes added on.
44 min: Bunny Shaw is down, and looks dazed after a collision with Buurman.
43 min: Oof, something of a slice from Hannah Hampton but she gets away with it. At the other end, a James shot is deflected behind.
41 min: James fires over and isn’t happy that the ball she hit didn’t have enough purchase on it.
40 min: Chelsea hold on the ball rather than adopt their previous wildcat attacking strategy. Then, patience almost pays off as Sam Kerr gets space, though that’s closed down.
38 min: Good save from Hampton following a deflected shot by Blindkilde Brown. Chances coming at both ends.
36 min: Hampton’s long ball from goalkeeper causes real problems, and as Kerr lurks, it takes a Greenwood intervention to stop what looked a certain goal. Chelsea look dangerous on every attack but then again so do City on their more rare excursions.
34 min: But, after a move started by Grace Clinton, the ball is headed over by Shaw. City are not done yet, by any measure.
33 min: Thompson is in the mood, her cross aimed at Kerr, but just headed over. Chelsea are back in the ascendancy.
32 min: What a run from Alyssa Thompson, dancing feet, like Ricky Villa, and it takes a well-timed tackle from Rose to stop her. Rose hurt herself in the act but plays on.
31 min: Kerr darts into the area, before the ball is cleared rather hurriedly.
30 min: Carpenter gets to the byline again but the ball is overhit this time. That disallowed second goal feels a while ago now.
