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Full time: Man Utd 0-2 Arsenal
Peep peep! Arsenal stay top of the WSL after a stylish, authoritative victory at Leigh Sports Village. They outclassed a good United side, with Vivianne Miedema and Katie McCabe scoring the goals early in the second half. They were seriously impressive and look well equipped to go to the distance with Chelsea in the title race.
90+2 min This game, and the 6-1 defeat at home to Chelsea, have shown United how far they are from challenging for the title.
90 min Five minutes of added time. Carrie Jones misses a half chance for United, shooting wide from 10 yards.
88 min Mead is fouled just outside the area on the left by Boe Risa. She takes the free-kick herself, and overhits it. Next.
87 min And another substitution for United - Katie Zelem off, Vilde Boe Risa on.
86 min Another change for Arsenal: Caitlin Foord replaces the goalscorer* Vivianne Miedema.
* Is that tautologous?
86 min There was a brief flurry from United after the second goal, but the last 10 minutes have been comfortable for Arsenal.
84 min Nobbs flicks the ball neatly over Staniforth and finds Mead on the left. Nothing comes of it, but it was a nice little reminder of Nobbs’ confidence and class in possession.
83 min Beattie is okay to continue.
81 min Beattie is receiving treatment after a crunching challenge with the substitute Jones.
77 min A substitution apiece. United bring on the teenager Carrie Jones for Kirsty Hanson; Arsenal replace the outstanding Katie McCabe with Nikita Parris.
77 min Miedema strolls up and clips an insouciant free-kick that hits the top of the bar!
75 min Nobbs is fouled right on the edge of the area by Blundell, who is booked. That could, probably should, have been another penalty to Arsenal - I think the contact was on the line.
74 min Arsenal aren’t pressing as often now, which is one of the reasons United are having more of the play. It sounds contradictory but Arsenal were controlling the game more at 0-0 than they are at at 2-0.
70 min Staniforth’s superb cross is put behind by Maritz, who did extremely well to get in front of Galton at the far post. The corner is played short and crossed beyond the far post, where Russo heads wide. A half chance at best.
68 min McCabe’s driven corner is headed across goal by Catley, which leads to a game of pinball in the United area. The ball is cleared, then tossed back into the area and finally launched over the bar by Catley.
66 min United have had a lot of the ball since going 2-0 down. It’s their best spell since the first six or seven minutes of the game.
64 min: Good save by Zinsberger! United almost pull one back. Staniforth, 35 yards out in the inside-right channel, flipped a fine pass over the defence to find Zelem near the penalty post. She took the shot first time, on the run, sidefooting a half-volley that was kicked away by Zinsberger.
59 min Almost a chance for United, when a cross from the right nearly breaks for Galton. But it doesn’t, and that’s the end of that.
58 min Kim Little usually takes Arsenal’s penalties but she went off at half-time. It was expertly finished by McCabe. Earps dived the right way, to her right, but McCabe calmly curled the ball over here.
GOAL! Man Utd 0-2 Arsenal (McCabe 57 pen)
Katie McCabe scores coolly, clipping the ball over the diving Earps and into the net.
It was a slightly strange incident - Mannion slid in to block McCabe, who miskicked an attempted shot but was then taken out by Mannion.
PENALTY TO ARSENAL! Mannion brings down McCabe in the area, and Arsenal have a great chance to make it 2-0.
54 min McCabe waves a pass over the top towards Miedema. She waits for support and stabs the ball down the side to Mead, who tries to return the favour with an early return pass. Miedema gets to the ball first, on the edge of the six-yard box, but is crowded out by United defender.
53 min Hanson is limping heavily after that challenge from McCabe; I’m not sure she’ll be able to continue.
52 min “Death, taxes, political sleaze and, more happily, Miedema goals,” chirps Charles Antaki.
51 min McCabe is booked for a late challenge on Hanson.
51 min “I’m at the game and it’s freezing,” says Ruth Purdue. “Seems to me that Arsenal are just pressing so well. United can’t get the ball into midfield.”
The workrate of their attackers, Mead in particular, is so impressive.
50 min Miedema has now scored against every WSL team she has faced.
Earps’ positioning was all wrong but it was still a cracking strike from Miedema. She received a sharp square pass 25 yards from goal, moved the ball to the edge of the D and pinged a low drive into the net. Earps was a long way to the left, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, though I’m not sure she would have saved it anyway.
GOAL! Man Utd 0-1 Arsenal (Miedema 48)
Vivianne Miedema rifles Arsenal into the lead!
46 min Peep peep! Manchester United begin the second half.
Arsenal have a made half-time change. Jordan Nobbs has replaced Kim Little, who presumably has an injury, in midfield.
Half time: Man Utd 0-0 Arsenal
Peep peep! After five seconds of added time, the referee decides it’s time for a breather. Arsenal were much the better team in the first half, though they tended to create openings rather than clear chances. The closest they came was when Beth Mead rattled the crossbar early on.
44 min United are a couple of minutes away from reaching half-time unscathed. They need to change something, though, because it’s been a 0-0 battering.
40 min McCabe threads a brilliant through pass to Little, who has a split-second opportunity to shoot first time but then tries to comes back inside Thorisdottir and loses the ball. That was unusually indecisive from Little.
40 min Miedema drags the ball away from Batlle on the left side of the area and chips a cross that is crucially headed clear by Mannion (I think).
38 min Hanson, on the right, curls a dangerous long pass that just evades the stretching Toone. Had she controlled that she would have been through on goal.
37 min Every time I look up, Arsenal are on the attack. If United weren’t hanging on earlier, they are now. They are desperate to get to half-time at 0-0.
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