Manchester City against Manchester United: FEM FEMA-LIVE FA CUP semifinal | Fa cup for women
Key events
33 min: Riviere puts the ball over the opening marker, Celin Bizet. International Norway controls the left foot but its shot is straight to Keating.
30 min: Excellent defense from Maya Le Tissier. Lily Murphy takes a race on the Manchester City defender along the left, but the Tissier is very good to recover. He gets his body between Murphy and the ball and forces Manchester City to run out of the game.
23 min: Manchester has the part between his teeth. Ella Toone collects the ball in midfield before playing it to Leah Galton. Not one to rest on his laurels, Tone continues his race and receives the ball on the edge of the box. The England striker dances beyond the defenders of Manchester City, cutting his left foot before sting Keating’s fingers with a ferocious effort.
OBJECTIVE! Manchester City 0-2 Manchester United (Clinton, 22)
I saw him arrive! Manchester United wins a corner on the right, which Gabby George is in the box. Grace Clinton easily loses its indicator before directing the ball in the lower left corner.
17 min: Mary Fowler was injured after the last game phase. He seemed to do too much time while trying to help his teammate Murphy. The Manchester City medical team is on the pitch to give care.
16 min: A first view of Goal for the Manchester City Academy graduate, Lily Murphy. He collects the ball on the edge of the box before dragging the left pole ball without worrying Phallon Tullis-Juyce in goal.
12 min: Manchester United was at the top of the early stages of this game. They are taking advantage of Manchester City’s accidents crisis and building their solid season so far. The city is struggling to create a lot in the future without the presence of Khadija Shaw, Vivianne Miedema or Lauren Hemp.
OBJECTIVE! Manchester City 0-1 Manchester United (Bizet, 6)
Incredible finish from Celin Bizet. She Tone plays a stunning ball with the striker who knocks down with an immaculate touch. Bizet checks the right foot, making fun of the defenders of the city, before bending the ball in the distant corner beyond Keating.
4 min: Jayde Riviere started this game excellently on the right side. It has ventured forward a few times by the right back to cause problems to the city. Riviere is equally competent to go back and makes a large sliding plate.
1 min: Almost a mistake there while Manchester City tries to play from behind. A ride from Khiara Keating deflects of a Manchester United striker but are unable to capitalize.
Kick -off
Manchester City makes us kick from the left to the right.
Skinner’s counterpart, Nick Cushing, had this to say about Manchester United and their manager before today’s match:
“They are Manchester United, right? They expect to win trophies. I have enormous respect for Marc, I did it when he was the director of the city of Birmingham and when he came out in Orlando he did a great job. He is a high -level coach. I expect a really difficult game.
“For us, we have a huge desire, it is really difficult for me to dilute my expectations and my expectation is that I want to win trophies for the women of the city. I expect a difficult game, but I have a huge desire to progress.”
Tom Garry
How did Skinner’s fortunes shot by fans who asked him to be fired last season to be the current longest -running WSL manager? A key moment arrived when he beat Chelsea in the semifinals of the England Cup last season and he was given an extension of the one -year contract; It is understood that it was signed before they continued to win the final, even if it was announced later.
Mark Skinner, the longest WSL manager, recently signed an extension of the two -year contract with Manchester United. His team is currently third in the WSL, having granted the least number of goals, but it was not all fluid during the Kingdom of Skinner four years. Read the piece of Tom Garry on the Awakening of the Manchester United by Marc Skinner.
The teams
Manchester City: Keating, Aleixandri, Coombs, Fowler, Kerolin Nicoli, Ouahabi, Park, Casparij, Hasegawa, Prior, Murphy
Subtitles: Yamashita, Startup, Layzell, Wienroithe, Oyama, Lewis
Your team has to face United! 📝🩵
XI | Keating, Aleixandri (C), Coombs, Fowler, Kerolin Nicoli, Ouahabi, Park, Casparij, Hasegawa, Prior, Murphy
Subtitles | Yamashita, Startup, Layzell, Wienroithe, Oyama, Lewis#Manza | @etihad pic.twitter.com/jqmpdyhlut
– Manchester City Women (@mancitywomen) April 13, 2025
Manchester United: Tullis-Joyce, George, Le Tissier, Tone, Clinton, Galton, Rivier, Bizet, Terland, Myazawa, Turner
Subtitles: Middleton-Pater, Revell, Manni, Sandberg, Awujo, Janssen, Naalsund, Malard, Williams
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the minute by minute by minute of the FA FEMUM FEMUM SELECTION between Manchester City and Manchester United.
Marc Skinner’s Manchester United team is offering himself to reach a third consecutive final in FA Cup after winning the competition last year. Their 4-2 WSL victory over their noisy neighbors at the beginning of the season will fill them with confidence.
On the other hand, Manchester City will be eager to create a FA Cup final with the perpetual rivals that winning today. Vivianne Miedema will be without striker, even if he has obtained an injury to the knee tendon for the international duty for the Netherlands.
If today’s game is something like Chelsea 2-1 for Liverpool yesterday, we are around!
The kick -off is at 15:00. Send me an and -mail with your thoughts.
