Arsenal v Tottenham: Women’s Super League – live | Women’s Super League

90+1 min Six minutes of added time. Van Domselaar is booked for timewasting.

90 min The indefatigable Gaupset gallops 60 yards to the edge of the area before rifling just wide. She’s been outstanding.

88 min Van Domselaar is quickly off her line to dive bravely at the feet of Signe Gaupset. Still only 20, Gaupset is going to be an outstanding player.

87 min: Arsenal substitution Kim Little receives a standing ovation as she is replaced by Laia Codina.

86 min: Double substitution for Tottenham Olga Ahtinen and Lenna Gunning-Williams replace Drew Spence and Hanna Wijk.

83 min Tonight’s attendance is 46,123.

82 min A ball into the box is headed down by England to Gaupset, whose touch-and-hit is blocked. I think it was off target anyway. But this is Spurs’ best spell of the match by a distance.

81 min A couple of corners in quick succession for Spurs, who have a spring in their step for the first time all night.

England has only been on the field for six minutes but she’s had three efforts on target and now she’s scored. Vinberg controlled the ball neatly and touched it off to England, who smashed a shot from a tight angle that went the hands of a startled Van Domselaar. The keeper probably should have done better but it was hit with feeling by England.

Fair to say Bethany England has a point to prove.

75 min McCabe clips the free-kick over the wall and the leaping Kop touches it onto the crossbar and over. Good save.

74 min Pelova is fouled just outside the area by Nilden, who is on a yellow card and needs to be careful.

73 min The resulting corner leads to another from England, and a more comfortable save by Van Domselaar.

England almost scores with her first touch, a quite brilliant improvised header from Nilsen’s flat, angled cross. It was swerving inside the near post until Van Domselaar dived towards her own goal and pawed it round. Wow, that’s a brilliant save.

72 min: Double substitution for Spurs Bethany England, making her 200th WSL appearance, and Eveliina Summanen replace Maiko Hamano and Cathinka Tandberg.

71 min Arsenal are letting Spurs have the ball in the middle third, then countering furiously when they win it. It’s been a textbook gameplan.

68 min: Arsenal substitution Victoria Pelova replaces Mariona Caldentey, who is given a rest with Stamford Bridge in mind.

66 min This game is done. Spurs want to get out of town asap.

Caitlin Foord has scored her first WSL goal since September. Mead found Holmberg on the right with a terrific volleyed flick. She whipped a cross beyond the far post, where Foord – who I think saw the ball late – miscontrolled it slightly away from goal. But she reacted superbly to retrieve the ball and batter a shot on the turn past Kop. Cracking finish.

Arsenal are even more comfortable now.

61 min: Spurs substitution Julie Blakstad replaces Olivia Holdt.

60 min The second half has been a bit of a non-event so far. Arsenal are comfortable and playing in second gear.

57 min: Double substitution for Arsenal Stina Blackstenius and Beth Mead replace Chloe Kelly, who had a quiet game, and Alessia Russo, who did not. She was magnificent.

54 min Little is too unselfish for her own good when she has a chance to shoot, albeit from an awkward angle, and instead tries to find the overlapping Foord. Little overhits the pass and Foord can’t keep it in.

52 min Tandberg runs onto a pass from Wijk and tries a shot on the turn that deflects behind for a corner. Nothing comes of it but Spurs have been a bit more threatening at the start of the second half.

47 min Wijk’s low cross is poked well wide of the near post by Tandberg. She was under pressure from Wubben-Moy and it was no sort of chance.

46 min Arsenal begin the second half.

Half-time substitution Arsenal are bringing on Caitlin Foord for Olivia Smith.

Half-time reading

This is a nice piece on an emerging force in French football.

Arsenal are in control of the north London derby after a dominant first-half performance at the Emirates. Alessia Russo, starting as the No9 today, was borderline unplayable and scored a hat-trick inside the first 27 minutes. Spurs had plenty of the ball but none of Arsenal’s penetration: their goal was headed into her own net by Frida Maanum and they had no attempts at goal.

45+2 min Russo’s 46th shot of the night deflects off Bartrip and through to Kop.

45 min Four minutes of added time.

41 min Arsenal have had 10 attempts at goal, four on target. Spurs, despite some pleasant and purposeful passing, have had none.

40 min An imaginative through pass from Gaupset towards Hamano is crucially cut out on the edge of the area. Gaupset looks a fine player.

38 min Boos from the referees in the crowd when Olivia Smith is booked for a foul on Holdt. Seconds later, Nilden is also booked for a foul on Smith.

34 min Russo runs onto a deft header from Maanum and thumps a shot that is deflected over by the stretching Toga. Good defending.

32 min Spurs are suffering the first-half blues for the second Saturday in a row. They were 5-1 down at half-time against Manchester City before eventually losing 5-2.

29 min “Sometimes watching football can be pure pleasure,” writes Charles Antaki. “Alessio Russo is responsible for many of those sometimes.”

Ridiculous player, and at 27 she has scope to get even better.

Bartrip played the ball back to Kop, who tried to slide a first-time pass to Koga on the edge of the D. Instead she screwed it straight to Russo, who accepted the gift with the minimum of fuss.

Alessia Russo scores a derby hat-trick inside the first half-hour after a howler from Lize Kop.

Spurs are back in it now. Hakano’s corner from the left is flicked on dangerously by Nilden and headed into her own net by Maanum. She was off balance and under pressure from Tandberg, and before she knew it the ball had flown into her own net.

19 min Spurs almost strike back when Gaupset, on the left, curls a beautiful ball that flashes right across the face of goal.

16 min Russo gets behind the defence again, but this time her touch is slightly off and Koga is able to make an important tackle.

No matter: she has a chance for the hat-trick seconds later when Maanum picks her out, eight yards from goal, and Russo drives a low shot that is saved to her right by the sprawling Kop.

13 min Bartrip fouls Russo 30 yards from goal and is a bit fortunate to escape a yellow card. Russo has been unplayable so far.

11 min Spurs have actually passed the ball quite nicely at the start of this game. The problem is when they lose it; Arsenal are full of menace in transtion.

Alessia Russo is rampant! Smith slipped a nice pass down the side to put her on goal in the inside-right channel; she still had a bit to do but she walked calmly past Kop and reversed a finish that wrongfooted the covering Spurs defenders and rolled into the far corner. That’s such a smooth, classy finish.

Do not adjust your set.

Alessia Russo gives Arsenal the lead! Such a simple goal: McCabe curled an inswinging corner to the far post, where Russo lost her marker far too easily and stooped to head past Kop. A good finish but the defending was, a-hem, sub-optimal.

4 min Another shot from Russo hits Bartrip; this time it spins behind for the first corner. From which…

2 min Russo wins the ball high up the field and hits a stinging shot from 22 yards that is blocked by Bartrip.

1 min Peep peep! Spurs kick off from right to left as we watch.

The players walk onto the field on a crisp evening in north London. Looks like a really good crowd. The Arsenal captain Kim Little, who signed a new one-year deal with the club yesterday, looks particularly emotional as she lines up before the match.

Renee Slegers has made five changes to the Arsenal side that beat Chelsea in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final, presumably with Wednesday’s return leg in mind. Daphne van Domselaar, Smilla Holmberg, Steph Catley, Frida Maanum and Olivia Smith come in for Anneke Borbe, Emily Fox, Laia Codina, Stina Blackstenius and Beth Mead.

Two changes for Spurs, whose last game was a 5-2 WSL defeat at Manchester City a week ago. Toko Koga and Maika Hamano, back from a triumphant Asian Cup campaign with Japan, replace Julie Blakstad and the club captain Bethany England.

Arsenal (4-2-3-1) Van Domselaar; Holmberg, Wubben-Moy, Catley, McCabe; Little, Mariona; Smith, Maanum, Kelly; Russo.

Subs: Borbe, Votikova, Fox, Codina, Hinds, Pelova, Mead, Foord, Blackstenius.

Tottenham Hotspur (4-4-1-1) Kop; Koga, Wijk, Bartrip, A Nilden; Spence, Holdt, Gaupset, Vinberg; Hamano Tandberg.

Subs: Heeps, England, Rybrink, M Nilden, Gunning-Williams, Ahtinen, Summanen, Dennis, Blakstad.

Arsenal come into this game in spectacular form: they’ve won their last eight games in all competitions, including two victories over Chelsea and another against Manchester City.

Spurs’ form has been more topsy-turvy. They won 7-3 at Villa in mid-February, beat London City Lionesses in an epic FA Cup penalty shootout but then lost to Everton and City.

Tom Garry

Derby weekend has arrived in the Women’s Super League and WSL2. Not one, not two, but six local rivalries will be reignited as the divisions try to capitalise on the men’s international break.

Is it clever to schedule so many of these clashes on the same weekend though, and especially staging three top-flight ones on the same afternoon? Everton host Liverpool, Manchester United welcome Manchester City and Arsenal entertain Tottenham on Saturday, all within the space of six hours. The answer will probably lie in the attendances.

Manchester City need five points to clinch the title after hammering Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford.

Arsenal and Spurs are separated by only one place in the WSL, but they remain worlds apart. Arsenal are European champions; Spurs, as their impressive young manager Martin Ho said yesterday, are a “bit of a sleeping giant in women’s football”.

At least they are starting to stir: they have made great strides under Ho and, after finishing 11th last season, have become the best team below the glass ceiling. At the moment they are in a league of their own – six points behind fourth-placed Arsenal, having played two games more, nine ahead of sixth-placed Everton.

Arsenal start the game in fourth, outside the Champions League places, but they are well placed to qualify for next year’s competition, either by finishing in the top three of the WSL or retaining the Champions League. They will take a 3-1 lead to Stamford Bridge for the quarter-final second leg on Wednesday.

The WSL leaders Manchester City are over the horizon, but if Arsenal win today they will move into second, above Manchester United and Chelsea, and they have games in hand on both.

Kick off 5.30pm.