Tottenham v Manchester City: Women’s Super League – live!

LIVE – Updated at 11:30

Minute-by-minute updates on the match at the Hive, with Spurs chasing Champions League for next season. Join Daniel Harris.

It’s been a terrible season for Manchester City – a ridiculous thing to say about a team which, just last week, won the League Cup. But a poor start in the league, coupled with qualifying-round Champions League elimination left them scrounging for crumbs, not the intention when the season began.

It’s true that City have only won the WSL once, in 2016, but they were second the season before, likewise in in the five since then, but now sit fifth in the table 14 points off the lead and eight points off the Champions League – though have two games in hand on Arsenal, top, and Manchester United, third, respectively. They’ve a lot of work to do.

Spurs, on the other hand, have improved a lot. City are where they are partly because Spurs beat them at home early in the season, momentum they’ve milked ever since; they lie fourth, five points in front but having played a game more. They’ll want to look up, but will be struggling not to look down.

That’s because City are gathering steam. They eased past Spurs in the League Cup semis and have also beaten their local rivals twice in recent weeks, once in the league and once in the cup by way of thrashing. There aren’t many teams able to deal with Caroline Weir, Ellen White and Lauren Hemp all at the same time, but only Arsenal and Chelsea, the top two, have conceded fewer goals than Spurs this season, and they’ll be confident of closing down space – though less so of where their goals might be coming from. It’s one thing to shut down space, another to deploy gamebreaking brilliance and clinical finishing.

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