“We will be back” promises Skinner after Wembley heartbreak

Manchester United lost out on their inaugural Vitality Women’s FA Cup glory after suffering a heartbreaking loss at the hands of Chelsea. Sam Kerr scored the only goal of the game, after capitalising from a low cross just beyond the hour mark.

The Reds were arguably the better side on the day, outplaying the defending champions in the first half but started to slip in the second when Chelsea brought on reinforcements.

Skinner said: “I think we had some good chances where we’ve probably got to score them and then Sam gets her chance and scores it, her movements are excellent behind the line.

“We knew this threat was coming, it's the biggest threat they have and today we switched off for one moment and that’s what Chelsea do, they punish you.

“Our fans are the best in the country, bar none. We’re sorry we couldn't bring it home for them today but we will be back, for them.”

Skinner added: “Look at [Erin] Cuthbert and Sophie Ingle, no disrespect but when you put Ingle on, they’re not there to be the best, fancy, possession-based team, they’re there to destroy your attacks. And so you have to match physicality with physicality.

“We want to be where they were today. We were trying to find spaces, we were trying to inject some physicality into midfield to which we were winning the lower battles but the higher battles were not being won.

“The physicality is part of the game and we’ve got to inject that in recruitment.

“I'm not going to stop. This team is not going to stop. We’re not going away and these are just moments you have to win. We haven’t done that today but we gave a really good account of ourselves and we will be back, I have no doubt about that.

"I thought the girls were excellent, it's their first final as a