Key events
90+5 mins: A bit of penalty-area scramblage ends with a Beever-Jones shot and a reaction save from Cumings, though the ball may have hit her in the head if she hadn’t got her hands up.
90+4 mins: There are, incidentally, six minutes or so of stoppage time to be played.
90+3 mins: A lovely, floated cross from Hamano finds three blue shirts throwing themselves at the ball at the far post, but none can make killer contact!
90+1 mins: Beney bursts into the Chelsea area and blasts a shot wide.
90 mins: Now a different City keeper almost makes a howler, with Cumings dallying on the ball and then hitting her pass into Beever-Jones, but the ball does not deflect into, or even towards, her goal.
87 mins: Some substitutional news: Chelsea bring Cuthbert on for Potter, and she also takes the armband. City bring Mead on for Wamser.
86 mins: Now Beever-Jones is played in on the left, but her shot flashes across goal and wide.
85 mins: An excellent Chelsea break ends with a deeply rubbish attempted pass from Hamano towards Beever-Jones, when she had space to take a touch and shoot herself (or just play a better pass).
83 mins: Hasegawa chips a pass over the entire Chelsea outfield team towards Shaw, but three defenders are immediately on top of her and she can’t get away from them.
82 mins: A sight of goal for City, but Beney heads wide at the far post.
79 mins: Chelsea hit the bar with the free-kick! Beever-Jones takes it, lifts the ball over the wall, but it doesn’t quite drop far enough, with Cumings beaten!
78 mins: For what it’s worth I’m not sure there was much or indeed any actual contact between Yamashita and Thompson, but it was a ludicrous challenge that invited what followed.
77 mins: City have to bring on a goalkeeper, so Cumins comes on for Fujino, who has been excellent but somebody’s got to go.
Yamashita sent off! Manchester City go down to 10 players!
75 mins: And that moment might end this game as a contest. The ball is played across and beyond the City defence, Thompson is always going to get there first but Yamashita hares out to challenge. Thompson touches the ball, accepts the challenge, goes down, and the referee decides to send the City keeper off!
71 mins: Now an incredible miss from Chelsea! Or rather, two incredible misses! A cross from the left finds Hamano unmarked, but she misjudges her header and misses it completely! It falls to carpenter, who has acres of space beyond the far post, and she chests it down before … blootering a shot actually away from goal!
70 mins: It would be interesting to see possession statistics for the first 25 minutes of this half, but I suspect Chelsea wouldn’t like them.
67 mins: Chelsea are under severe pressure here, but Chelsea are holding firm and Hampton still hasn’t had a noteworthy save to make.
66 mins: Now Shaw runs into the left of the penalty area, but she’s forced to check back onto her right foot and her shot, when it comes, is blocked.
64 mins: How did that not go in? The ball is lifted down the right, Beney lifts it infield to Shaw, who lifts it over the keeper – yes, this is a lot of lifting – and Hemp runs in to turn it over the line from about eight inches out but … completely misses it!
62 mins: It’s been a scrappy start to the half, starting much as the first ended. City hope to change things with a double substitution, taking off Fowler and Coffey and bringing on Blindkilde Brown and Vivianne Miedema.
60 mins: An excellent few minutes for Chelsea, and it almost ends with a chance for Kaptein, but Shaw is there to head the ball away from her.
58 mins: A good run from Thompson, cutting in from the left, but Wamser does well to cover Beevor-Jones and clear the ball when it comes in.
57 mins: The game’s second shot on target! Shaw sets up Fujino, whose shot from the edge of the area is feeble and easily stopped.
54 mins: Manchester United have beaten Crystal Palace 2-0 in a one-sided encounter. They duly rise to fourth in the table. Tottenhan could retake that spot if they beat Everton in the 3pm kick-off.
53 mins: Another City player is booked for fouling Bronze, this time Wamser punished for a shirt-pull.
50 mins: Big chance! But it’s offside! And missed anyway! From a free-kick Coffee provides an excellent cross and Shaw heads over, but the flag’s up.
47 mins: Shaw jumps into Bronze, rather than actually competing for the header, and then adds insult to injury by landing on top of her, for which the referee gives her a yellow card.
46 mins: Peeeep! City get the second half started.
Sonia Bompastor has a quick halftimely chat, as Hamano comes on for Baltimore. She suggests, reading between the lines, that one of the first-half substitutions, presumably that of Buchanan after only 12 minutes, was tactical rather than enforced:
For now I think the first half was good in terms of the performance, but we know this team is tough so we need to be focused. The game is not over. I will explain [the substitutions] maybe after the game, but different stories behind the substitutions.
The players are back out, and it looks like Chelsea are making a third substitution.
After just over half an hour the teams had had two shots each. In the final 15 minutes Chelsea outshot their opponents 4-0: they shut up shop in defence, worked a couple of half-chances, and finally took one.
Here meanwhile are the lineups for the 3pm game:
Tottenham Hotspur Women: Kop, Dijkstra, Koga, Amanda Nilden, Blakstad, Pelova, Spence, Hanson, Holdt, Gaupset, Tandberg. Subs: Panengstuen, Morris, Naz, Vinberg, Matilda Nilden, Gunning-Williams, Martinez, Wijk, Dezire-Pierre.
Everton Women: Brosnan, Blundell, Layzell, Ishikawa, Kitagawa, Mace, Wheeler, Momiki, van Gool, Pacheco, Vignola. Subs: Foster, Hobson, Cain, Rantala, Mouchon, Finnigan, Galli, Silcock, Howard.
Half time: Chelsea 1-0 Manchester City
45+6 mins: City dominated the opening exchanges but the game grew tighter and messier, until Sandy Baltimore blasted it open just before the break!
GOAL! Chelsea 1-0 Manchester City (Baltimore, 45+4 mins)
Finally a shot on target, and there’s no stopping it! Baltimore gets the ball on the right of the area, Knaak doesn’t close her down, and she boshes a left-footer into the top, near cornner!
45+4 mins: Chelsea win the ball in the City defensive third but then completely waste it, and City get the chance to clear.
45+2 mins: A full two minutes passes between Shaw conceding a free-kick and Chelsea getting around to taking it. It’s lifted into the area, headed across goal, and collected by Yamashita.
45+1 mins: Into stoppage time, and there’s going to be about five minutes of it.
43 mins: It looks like Lauren Hemp is going to be able to continue, though she’s feeling the right side of her neck a little gingerly.
42 mins: The physios are back on, this time City’s, after Hemp landed awkwardly and stayed down.
40 mins: Chance! It feels like it’s been a while since the last one, after the first quarter-hour or so was basically non-stop attacking. Anyway, Thompson crosses, and Beever-Jones meets it in the middle, but the ball’s a bit behind her, she has to improvise a goalwards volley and she can’t quite get it on target.
38 mins: Manchester United have, meanwhile, taken a 2-0 lead against Crystal Palace, thanks to Elisabeth Terland’s tidy finish.
