Manchester United have nothing to be ashamed of - key talking points from Wembley agony

The entire Manchester United team can hold their heads high after yesterday’s performance at Wembley. They lost 1-0 to reigning champions Chelsea who kept the Vitality Women's FA Cup silverware in blue for the third year in a row, the fifth time overall, but they didn't give up without a fight.

As cliché as it sounds, it was a game of two halves. United dominated the first 45 while the Blues took charge of the second, and essentially it all came down to Sam Kerr slotting home the winner - who else?

The Australian timed her run perfectly, in the blind spot of Maya Le Tissier, to meet Pernille Harder’s cross. It was too close for Mary Earps to do anything about it and so tucked the ball just inside the near post, meaning heartache for the Reds.

Here are some talking points from the historic day at Wembley...

On the way to Wembley, all I saw was red shirts everywhere. Marc Skinner always says he has the best fans in the country, and boy did they turn up in their masses. Even the ‘unallocated’ seats were occupied by red shirts. For a 400-mile round trip from Manchester to Wembley it was amazing to see how many United fans there were, from all walks of life.

The atmosphere was electric and Skinner promised his fans after the game: “We will be back, for you.”

I get the heartache, I think we all do, but there is nothing this Manchester United team need to get down about. They showed up and stunned everyone when Leah Galton hit the back of the net 20 seconds in! What a fantastic start.

The first-half performances were sensational from the Reds considering it was their first time together in a cup final. But that fact didn’t show at all. United penned the Blues into their own half for the first 30 minutes and found out how to