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Key events
Well, that was fun. Caldentey’s equaliser straight after the break set the tone for a topsy-turvy second half. Casparij’s bundled second was then cancelled out by Kelly’s eye-catching equaliser before Beney, on as a substitute, scored the decisive goal in the 88th minute. Ooh, that will sting for Arsenal. They are now three without a win and five points off the WSL summit.
Full-time: Manchester City 3-2 Arsenal
It’s all over! Russo has the final chance of the game but her header from Kelly’s cross is wide. After a seesaw game, Man City go to within one point of WSL leaders Chelsea courtesy of 19-year-old Iman Beney’s late winner.
90+6 min: Catley wins a corner for Arsenal. This is surely their last chance.
90+5 min: Arsenal push forward in search of what would be their third equaliser of the game.
90+4 min: Kelly wins a foul off Shaw in the Arsenal half when really it looked the other way around …
90+3 min: Kelly bumps into Ouahabi, giving City the perfect chance to take the sting out of the play.
90+1 min: City throw on Sydney Lohmann for Blindkilde Brown.
90 min: Six minutes of added time. Plenty of time for another twist.
GOAL! Manchester City 3-2 Arsenal (Beney 88)
Is that a winner? A long ball is brought down by Shaw, whose pass finds its way to Beney and the finish is hard, low and exactly what City were looking for as Arsenal threatened a winner of their own.
86 min: Arsenal can smell blood now. Yamashita sends a wayward pass out of play and Slegers’s side make camp on the edge of the City box once more.
84 min: Kelly threatens again, sending a low shot just wide from the edge of the box. What a shift in the mood at the Joie Stadium.
GOAL! Manchester City 2-2 Arsenal (Kelly 83)
Just as I was about to say she was struggling to get into the game, Chloe Kelly hauls her team level! The former City winger curls a shot, with the aid of a deflection, into the far corner from the edge of the box!
80 min: Arsenal bring on Frida Maanum, who has three goals to her name this season, for Caldentey. Kyra Cooney-Cross is on as well. Little goes off.
79 min: City get caught on the edge of their own box and Blackstenius fires a warning shot, albeit well over.
78 min: City threaten a third! Fujino finds Shaw in the box and, after her initial pass is blocked, the striker stings the palms of Van Domselaar at her near post. Hasegawa’s inswinging corner is cleared by Arsenal.
75 min: Miedema makes way for Laura Coombs, another former Arsenal player. City needed fresh legs in that midfield.
Tom Garry
These final 20 minutes feel big for Arsenal. Really big. After they dropped points at home to Aston Villa last time out, they’ll be under pressure if they lose this and they won’t have an easy week, starting the defence of their European title at home to the French giants OL Lyonnes on Tuesday. Renée Slegers looks deep in thought on the touchline.
73 min: Arsenal test Yamashita again from the resulting corner but City survive again.
72 min: Should be 2-2! Rose’s short backpass is pounced on by Blackstenius. The Arsenal striker is one-on-one with Yamashita but loses out, her shot blocked by the City goalkeeper and Greenwood sends the loose ball behind.
70 min: Those substitutions don’t seem to have stopped Arsenal’s momentum. Mead gets the ball out of her feet and tests Yamashita with a low drive from the edge of the area.
68 min: A mostly warm welcome from the City fans for Kelly, whose bitter departure seems to have been largely forgotten. Maybe those heroics in the summer helped.
67 min: Arsenal bring on the big guns. Chloe Kelly, Beth Mead and Stina Blackstenius emerge from the bench. Foord, Smith and Pelova go off.
66 min: McCabe’s free-kick and the resulting Arsenal corner keep City guessing but come to nothing.
64 min: Arsenal swing the tempo of the game back in their favour. Smith wins a foul off Blindkilde Brown on the edge of the box. McCabe will take.
62 min: Van Domselaar makes a crucial save! Shaw gets on the end of another cross and almost doubles City’s lead straight away but the Arsenal goalkeeper is equal to her header. Crikey, this is wide open now.
GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Arsenal (Casparij 61)
The resulting corner ends up in the back of the Arsenal net! Greenwood picks out Shaw at the back post and Van Domselaar parries her header back out. Casparij is one of a couple of City players tussling for the rebound and she gets enough on the ball to see it over the line.
60 min: Iman Beney has come off the bench for City and is straight into the action. Miedema plays the young Switzerland international in and her shot is deflected into the side netting.
58 min: Smith is a constant threat. A combination with Fox sends her down the right again but the Canadian’s cross is misjudged and drifts towards the opposite corner flag.
57 min: Smith sends a gorgeous pass into Russo with the outside of her boot. The England striker swivels and shoots but her effort is way off target.
55 min: Casparij appears to be the out-ball for City. Anything else they try is being met with an Arsenal challenge or interception.
52 min: Shaw is up and about again, trying to get on the end of a long ball from Rose but Fox deals with the threat.
49 min: Well, whatever Slegers said at half-time has had the desired effect. Arsenal are all over City. They are being physical as well, Catley clattering into Shaw and leaving her on the deck. Jeglertz’s side look shaken.
Caldentey is so sharp from kick-off. She opened the scoring inside the first minute of Arsenal’s 4-3 win here last season and now she’s scored within 60 seconds of the restart.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Arsenal (Caldentey 46)
Arsenal waste no time in levelling the scores! Fox’s cut-back finds Caldentey inside the penalty area and the Spaniard’s sweeping finish beats Yamashita at her near post.
Second half begins
Bunny Shaw gets us under way once more.
A reminder of the options available to both teams off the bench:
Man City Keating, Layzell, Coombs, Wienroither, Lohmann, Beney, Prior, Thomas, Adedini
Arsenal Zinsberger, Reid, Codina, Hinds, Cooney-Cross, Maanum, Mead, Kelly, Blackstenius
Charles Antaki writes in with some half-time thoughts:
All the Arsenal players look off the pace, except perhaps for Emily Fox, and the absence of Leah Williamson means collywobbles in the centre of the defence. Maybe things will improve when she returns to the team, but in the meantime a lot of players will be getting a serious bit of chat from Slegers at half-time.
Lotte Wubben-Moy might be excused for a little rustiness. She’s played just a handful of minutes this season and didn’t get off the bench for England at the Euros (again). This is her first start since April.
Half-time: Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal
Shaw is OK and City will be thankful for that. She’s been the outstanding player in this first half and is the scorer of the goal that separates the two teams at the break – a header from Casparij’s cross in the 36th minute.
Slegers has some thinking to do now. While her side have been good on the ball and Smith in particular has looked dangerous, they’ve struggled to get to grips with Shaw and Miedema.
45+2 min: Wubben-Moy catches Shaw late and the City striker goes down holding her ankle. Bit of a concern for Jeglertz just before half-time.
45 min: Fujino lets fly from the edge of the area but her shot goes over. Three minutes have been added.
44 min: Foord twists and shoots on the edge of the City box but Yamashita gets down comfortably to gather.
Shaw let Arsenal off the hook there. She beat one player too many when it would’ve been easier just to take the shot early.
40 min: Arsenal are rocked! City have the ball in the net again as Casparij flies into space and plays the ball across to Shaw. The Jamaican delays for too long and her shot is eventually blocked, with an offside Casparij tucking the ball home.
38 min: Shaw looks in the mood now. Miedema plays her in behind with a perfectly weighted pass but the flag goes up as the striker goes to round Van Domselaar. It was tight.
That’s four goals in five games for Bunny Shaw so far this season.
GOAL! Manchester City 1-0 Arsenal (Shaw 36)
City take the lead! Fujino battles hard down the right and plays a pass to the overlapping Casparij. The right-back’s cross is headed expertly past Van Domselaar by Shaw.
35 min: Shaw gets her head to the corner and a foul is given for a challenge on Yamashita.
