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Manchester City head coach Andrée Jeglertz urged his players to keep a level head in their penultimate game of the season today. He said: “There’s quite a lot of teams in the world that emotions affect performances and we talked a lot that no matter what emotions or pressure you have, you can still follow the gameplan and do the things you are good at.
“That has to be the thing that you’re also coming back to. That is my job to spread the calmness and not push the players in the wrong direction. We all have a big role in that.
“The key thing for us is to be able to do all the things we are good at no matter the pressure. We can always do the things we agreed beforehand. All the games here have been amazing with spectators and atmosphere.
“We have the confidence that we are very good at this stadium but also enjoy the moment a little bit. How this league ends is up to us. We shouldn’t have any regrets when we leave the field to look in the mirror and know we have done everything we can to win this game.
“Regardless of the pressure, we need to stick to what we have agreed on.”
Lea Schüller scored a late equaliser to snatch a point for Manchester United against Brighton yesterday. The visitors had been leading the game from the 39th minute, when Jelena Čanković capitalised on an error from Phallon Tullis-Joyce to break the deadlock.
However, a late push from United saw Schüller level things up in added time.
Elsewhere in the WSL today
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Manchester City starting line-up: Ayaka Yamashita; Jade Rose, Rebecca Knaak, Alex Greenwood, Kerstin Casparij; Sam Coffey, Yui Hasegawa; Lauren Hemp, Aoba Fujino, Kerolin; Khadija Shaw.
Subs: Khiara Keating, Grace Clinton, Laura Coombs, Mary Fowler, Leila Ouahabi, Laura Blindkilde Brown, Iman Beney, Gracie Prior, Lily Murphy.
Liverpool starting line-up: Jennifer Falk; Risa Shimizu, Grace Fisk, Jenna Clark, Alejandra Bernabé; Denise O’Sullivan, Fūka Nagano; Mia Enderby, Beata Olsson, Ceri Holland; Aurélie Csillag.
Subs: Faye Kirby, Gemma Evans, Lily Woodham, Kirsty Maclean, Anna Jøsendal, Alice Bergström, Zara Shaw, Maizie Trueman.
Preamble
Hello, good morning and welcome to coverage of the WSL meeting between Manchester City and Liverpool. A win for City today will keep them in complete control of the WSL title race, but anything less could allow Arsenal – who will have three games in hand by this evening – to swoop in and take the crown on the final day.
The hosts need to bounce back from their shock 3-2 loss to Brighton, but Liverpool will not be easy opponents. Gareth Taylor comes up against his former side in the hopes of derailing their title charge. The Reds have improved significantly since the start of the year and are capable of causing a huge upset.
However, City have the quality to get over the line in their penultimate game.
Kick-off is at 12pm BST – join me!
A number of roads across the city are closed, with a staggered reopening planned for the afternoon.
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Yesterday was one to forget for Arsenal Women, who suffered a Champions League semi-final second-leg defeat to Lyon. The Gunners went into the match leading 2-1 but lost out following a 4-3 loss on aggregate.
Lyon will now face either Barcelona or Bayern Munich in the final later this month.
Question of the day – which direction do we think this title race will go?
Can Arsenal see it out? Or will they struggle under pressure and allow City to take it?
As a Chelsea supporter pains me to say it, but well done Arsenal. They have shown great character and resilience this last week or so and now must be favourites for the Premiership title. All of the pressure is now back on City.
And finally, Sunderland were held to a 1-1 draw by Wolves at Molineux…
The main talking point was Dan Ballard’s red card for a hair pull on Tolu Arokodare.
Elsewhere, Newcastle managed a 3-1 win against Brighton thanks to goals from Will Osula, Dan Burn and Harvey Barnes to ease the pressure on Eddie Howe.
How things stand at the bottom of the table…
A huge performance is needed from Spurs today. They need to capitalise on that West Ham stumble.
oh West Ham, just one job to do, and even that wasn’t necessarily a must-win as even a draw would put more pressure on Spurs, and you failed; ok Brentford away isn’t easy but from comments there seemed to be a lack of fight and that is unforgivable, only good news is that Villa away is slightly tougher than Brentford away so maybe GD could be improved but really, when it’s in your hands you can’t afford to drop it
looking forward to the United match, can’t see which way it’s likely to go, Liverpool could be in 5th or 3rd later this evening, neither’s a disaster but just being above United would be nice
At the other end of the table, West Ham lost ground in the race for survival following a 3-0 loss to Brentford. The Hammers will find themselves in the relegation zone by the end of the day if Tottenham beat Aston Villa this evening.
How the top of the Premier League table looks following Arsenal’s huge win against Fulham…
Mikel Arteta said his Arsenal team had played some of their best football of the season in Saturday’s 3-0 home win over Fulham and demanded that they take the positive feelings into the return leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atlético Madrid on Tuesday.
He said: “It says to us and toward our dressing room that we keep the dream alive. hat what these guys have done, not now, but throughout the season to win that many games is remarkable. Because I think it’s going to help on Tuesday. What we want now is to use that momentum, energy and belief towards Tuesday.
“This was a critical game. We know the importance of the win and the manner that we’ve done it and the goal difference in the Premier League and because this game was going to carry a lot of energy towards the next game, which is one of the biggest in the history of this stadium. We’re going to try to make it happen.”
Asked if the first-half performance against Fulham was Arsenal’s best of the season, Arteta responded: “It certainly was one of the best. We talked about hunger, about having the ability to focus and be so determined on what we had to do.”
Arsenal cruised past Fulham yesterday to move six points clear at the top of the Premier League table. The Gunners had not won a game by more than a two-goal margin since their 2-0 Champions League win over Bayer Leverkusen on March 17. However, a double from Viktor Gyökeres and a strike from Bukayo Saka eased any nerves.
Manchester City, who have two games in hand, must now beat Everton away tomorrow to keep pace with their title rivals.
Preamble
Hello, good morning and welcome to another Matchday live! We have three Premier League fixtures to look forward to this afternoon, including a huge meeting between rivals Manchester United and Liverpool and a must-win match for Tottenham against Aston Villa. Bournemouth also play host to Crystal Palace at the Vitality Stadium.
We also have plenty to recap from yesterday as the Championship, League One and League Two reached a conclusion.
All that and more will be covered this morning and throughout the day – so join us!
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