Five talking points from Man City's WSL defeat to Arsenal

Manchester City lost 2-1 to Arsenal on Sunday. Chloe Kelly cancelled out Steph Catley’s goal, just under an hour after going behind. But Stina Blackstenius calmly placed the ball into the back of an open City net after a defensive mishap for the Sky Blues. Here are the five main discussion points from the game:

To be honest, this was the same situation last campaign, it seems Gareth Taylor has fine-tuned his attacking formation and has recruited some of the best attacking talents in the women’s game. But then it seems to just stop when it comes to his defensive line.

He speaks a lot about how consistency is king in this league and to club success yet doesn't quite practice what he preaches with his defensive selections - the keeper situation and attackers are pretty concrete.

Being without Alex Greenwood would hurt any side - ask Sarina Wiegman about that one. But it's not like Taylor hasn’t got the players. His side seeps international talent, why keep the likes of Kerstin Casparij on the bench? She was heavily featured last season, what’s going on? Instead, Esme Morgan bounces from the number four, to centre back to right back, why?

Laia Aleixandri is a brilliant option at centre-back and has yet to have a bad game in the Sky Blue shirt. She links up well with the height of Greenwood or Alanna Kennedy (either as the fellow centre-back or the left-back over Leila Ouahabi) both of whom have had a great start to the season.

We still see appearances of Steph Houghton and Julie Blakstad at the back, there is just zero consistency here - no wonder they look chaotic when trying to clear their line and left Khiara Keating vulnerable.

At only 19 years of age, the ‘keeper managed to turn a moment of chaos - her mistimed