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Good evening. With defending WSL champions Chelsea not in action, we

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will see whether any of their closest rivals could take advantage.

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With high-flying Manchester City extend their lead at the top with

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victory over Sunderland? Arsenal aimed to maintain their title talent

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by despatching Liverpool. And could Birmingham make it 11 unbeaten when

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they travelled to struggling concourse to? -- concourse to? And

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with the Olympics days away, we thought it would be fitting to meet

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the Team GB squad. Would begin at the academy Stadium, where leaders

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Manchester City hosted struggling Sunderland. Could the league's most

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porous defence resist against the free scoring City attack must be

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headed by Jane Ross? -- spearheaded by Jane Ross.

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A striker who is simply oozing with confidence.

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Sunderland, the latest side attending to put a stop to the

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Manchester City juggernaut storming towards the title. A win would see

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them go four point clear at the top of the league. One enforced change,

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McManus was stretchered off during the 5-1 win at Notts County, Stokes

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comes in at left back. Despite a heavy 4-0 loss at Arsenal,

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Sunderland boss keeps the faith and names and unchanged side.

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Jane Ross manages to win a corner kick.

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Noted on, its hit the bar! It's nodded off the line by Rachel

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Furnace! How close was that for Manchester City! Jane Ross looking

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for her 11th goal of the season, inches away from getting it.

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Stanway does really well to win the ball. She has beaten the key plateau

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near post! She gives men to the city believed! A powerful strike from the

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17-year-old. Lawless, furious with herself and her defence for not

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closing the youngster down. She struck that so sweetly and

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Manchester City finally have the least.

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And she was beaten that time, the keeper. The crossbar

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Here is standard for. Sunderland having a late surge at the end of

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this first half. Bronze once the first half and doesn't get it. Not

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quite in the right position there, the keeper. I don't think she was

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expecting Furness to go for goal, and in the end, she did really well.

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expecting Furness to go for goal, and in the end, Filed in the end.

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Sunderland, showing some promise here.

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City, looking to strike back. In the Jill Scott.

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Stanway! Another clinical strike from the 17-year-old. Just like

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that, City go 2-0 up. That is three in two games for Stanway, right in

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the corner. No chance for the keeper with that one.

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Danger not averted for Sunderland. Looking for Paris, Sharp was there,

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behind for a corner. Christiansen once again with the

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corner. The shop was on target. Furnace

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begin doing a defensive duty. She tries to look for the run of

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Christiansen. Excellent defending. A goal saving challenge by Canon to

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intercept. Off-line! And again, Staniforth in

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the right place, the second time she has done that.

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Stanway! And there it is! Stanway with a hat-trick! What an afternoon

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she has had! In off the post. Three goals for Manchester City and three

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goals for Georgia Stanway. This one arguably the pick of the bunch. Does

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it get much better than that? Definitely not. Starting, scoring,

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winning, credit to the team as well, a good performance, very special

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day. I just think she is fearless, very competitive in the way she

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plays as she works very hard and we are aware she's young player and

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needs developing, which is a huge strategy of hours with men's and

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women's teams but when she plays like she did and takes her chances

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like she did, she will keep her place in the team. We kept the ball

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well at times, we created a few good moments for ourselves, where we got

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in behind, got a couple of shots at goal which was good, we just needed

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to build on that. Six games to go, you happy and confident? Had because

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we're top of the league but there is a long way to go and hard games to

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play. If we keep winning, just see where we end up.

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Manchester City, not quite as free-flowing as last week but got

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the job done and continued that dominant form. And that's why they

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continue to be at the top of the league, they weren't firing on all

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cylinders but the quality shone through, they were relentless

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against Sunderland yesterday, some really good quality on display.

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Let's talk about Georgia Stanway, just 17, fearless and keeping Tony

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Duggan out of the starting line-up and you can see why. Having played

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with Duggan when she was 17, she completely reminds me of her, her

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fearlessness, willingness to run at place, she is both right and left

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footed, likes cutting in from the left, scoring from all kinds of

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distances but her overall play is outstanding, she's checking her

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shoulders when she is receiving the ball, her passes are drilled in, she

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finds open spaces, recognises space out wide on this occasion and just

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feeds in with the other team-mates, it is quality from both ends of the

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pitch. She gets her rewards early on, she doesn't have much right to

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win the ball, she does and she picks the spot. Whether the keeper should

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allow that to going, near post... But this one is a clinical drive, we

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see her team-mate setting her up for the best of the three, left foot

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strike from outside the box full. Comes off the pitch to a deserved

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standing ovation. She has been given an opportunity by the manager, it's

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a big call to leave it can out somebody who is 17 but it shows you

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what you can do if you get an opportunity and she is more than

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capable. Real competition for places, that helps in terms of

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providing consistency. We started off this season saying that they had

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a small squad, and they have had it in the window and they have

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integrated so seamlessly, Jane Ross, Megan Campbell, Georgia Stanway

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being given her chance, there is real competition for places and as

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Casey says, give players chance, they have to take the chance and

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keep proving. We talked about Jane Ross, highlighted her, she didn't

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get on the scoresheet but when teams like Sunderland sit deep and make

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things congested, that linkup play is vital. She is the focal point of

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every Manchester City attack, she has one of the best movements of any

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forward of the league. She can go behind, come short, she is strong,

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she can link other players in, great one touch play get Lucy Bronze on

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the ball and she is one of the hardest players to play against, her

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movement here is so clever, as a centre half, you know you are going

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to have a hard game against her. Must be a nightmare to mark her, she

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is everywhere. She nearly gets a just reward with the header, we have

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seen her score right foot, left foot, headers this season, quality.

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That win for Manchester City meant Arsenal couldn't afford to slip up

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against Liverpool, unbeaten since before the mid-season break.

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Arsenal very much part of what looks like being a 3-way battle for the

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title. No Rosie White today for a Liverpool, the New Zealand

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international has gone to the Olympics with her country. Into the

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side comes top scorer Katie Zelem, while Alex Greenwood is replaced by

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Van den Bergh left back. Plenty of talent for Mark Sampson to

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watch today. They will look to get Nobbs on the ball at every available

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opportunity. Carter scored but winning goal in the cup final

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against Chelsea, and Williams comes into play here and it is deflected!

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That is a huge slice of fortune for Arsenal. Exactly the sort of thing

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may be that you need when you are chasing a league title. They will

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take it all day long. A nightmare for Chamberlain, because there was

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nothing she could do about it. Weir has been one of Liverpool's

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best players this season. That is a good turn, and what a hit! Fantastic

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finish by Vandersay and in, picked out of the top corner, and that is a

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beauty. No wonder they are celebrating, Liverpool are level.

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She didn't even look, she knew exactly where the goal was, top

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polity. That is to effect finish from van de Sanden. A good

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save by Chamberlain, got down sharply to her right hand side

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there. A great save by Chamberlain. A strong challenge coming in on

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Nobbs from Combs. Arsenal are looking stretched at the back here,

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and van de Sanden is an unmarked in the middle, his shears, and a great

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save! That was a brilliant stop. All she needed to do was to put the ball

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in, side footed in, and that is incredible goalkeeping.

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That is an overlapping run here by the left back. Vandenberg wasn't

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taking any chances, knew that Carter was coming in behind her. Not much

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time there that Jansen has got herself forward, put herself in the

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box. They have worked that really well between them, and Nobbs! A good

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save down at the other end by Chamberlain. That was a good shot

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from Nobbs, it looked like it was going in the top corner. The lay-off

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by Lund. A break for the Swede again here, and it is going to be a free

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kick from Liverpool, fouled by Fara Williams, and this is a nice

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distance out to have a go at goal. The free kick given away by one of

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Arsenal's most experienced players, but it is Weir who will really fancy

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this, just in her sort of range. Can she work the keeper here? It is

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glorious! What a strike by Caroline Weir! Van Veenendaal barely moved,

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and Liverpool have come from behind to lead here at Meadow Park. Whether

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it was the quality of the free kick, that just looked too easy. Van

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Veenendaal I'll just took a step to the left, I don't know where she for

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Weir was going to put it. McCabe has done well here, and Oshoala just

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couldn't get the touch to it. She just tried to roll the ball through,

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and in the end it landed at Alex Scott's feat. It would have been

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offside had she got a touch to it. The seconds are ebbing away here for

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Arsenal. The push by van de Sanden. The delivery has to be good from

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Williams. A really good punch clear by Chamberlain, Williams to try

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again. It was a deep cross, Chamberlain couldn't get there!

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Just, just off target. I thought that was in. They teasing ball. She

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just needed to get her head on the end of it, and it just went the

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wrong side of the post for her. It was a good game of football, they

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played fantastic stuff, but so did we. I thought we were more clinical

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and we deserved the win. How difficult is that today jest?

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61% possession and 24 shots. It was hard, but he is right, they were

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more clinical than us, we had more shots and more possession, but you

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have to turn them into goals. More clinical on the day? Absolutely.

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Liverpool gave them chances from outside the box. We see here in

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Italia gets the chance. I think what she does is press the ball, at least

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take our eye off it. That was a well worked corner from the training

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ground, a pretty good save from Siobhan Chamberlain, and the chances

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kept coming. Oshoala really should have got on the end of this, and

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this towering header, shows her athletic ability, but she could have

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put that in the back of the net. She is strong in the air, but that is

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the best chance of the game from me for the white and this one? I should

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have scored that, and I'm devastating for my team-mates that I

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haven't put that away, because that is my job. That must difficult to

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watch back. It is hard, but I will learn from it, I have to hit the

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target next time, and you take a point, that was difficult game, we

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knew they would be difficult to play against, they are on an unbeaten run

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for a reason. We didn't capitalise on our possession, we were not good

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enough in the final furlong. Liverpool have added resolve to

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their offensive play. You felt van de Sanden epitomised that. She was

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outstanding, I thought. She covered a great amount of ground, 10.37

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kilometres. Attacking and defensively she was the engine for

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Liverpool, and if any player needed to pick the game up and take it by

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the scruff of the neck, she did that and was a catalyst for most

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Liverpool players. She gave Jansen a torrid time yesterday, with and

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without the ball. She is powerful, relentless in her running. We see

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her getting in behind, she should have finished this, great save by

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van Veenendaal I'll, you have to say. Maybe her positioning was found

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wanting on a few occasions. Now we see the build-up to her goal, she

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has no right to get a turn, no backlift, flies into the top corner.

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That really is a fantastic technique. From this angle, she

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squeezes it really into that top corner, but it is the power and the

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pace and energy that is awesome. Moving on to Liverpool's second, a

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superb free kick from Caroline Weir, but van Veenendaal will be

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disappointed. She will. Credit to Caroline Weir first and foremost, it

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is a brilliant strike, but when we do slow it down, break it down, the

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goalkeeper should have done better. They extended the wall, made it

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harder for van Veenendaal all to see, but she sets it out right. Yes,

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she is her own biggest critic, she will watch this back a thousand

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times, and she will know that the to steps to the left is the wrong

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position, maybe her positioning could have been more to the right.

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If it beats the wall, there is nothing you can do about it, but I

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like to think that maybe she could have been a little further across,

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and she might have been able to affect it. But that is a world-class

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free kick. What does that defeat mean fewer title hopes? Are they

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gone? I think we have to be honest and say that they are over for the

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season, we have to fight for Champions League. We want to stay in

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the top two. It is in Chelsea and man city's hands, but we have a lot

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of pride. We will reflect and hopefully go again. Next, Doncaster

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hosted a Birmingham side who wanted to extend their unbeaten run in all

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competitions. Emma Saunders reports. Birmingham have lost on their

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travels since the opening fixture against Liverpool, yet in despite

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their impressive run of form, only opponents Doncaster had scored less.

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Lyndon shot agonisingly wide. Despite a half short on action,

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there were chances on both sides. The bells currently sit bottom of

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WSL one. At times, they seem to have been there own worst enemy, despite

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the captain playing the perfect ball. The breakthrough came on the

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hour mark, substitute Kirsty Linnett had torrid time of late, having

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missed nine months through injury, she took less than a minute to score

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her first golfer to years to put her side in front. Birmingham's

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defensive record is impressive having registered clean sheets in

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eight of their previous ten matches. Keita that is the former Sophie

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Bradley, who did superbly to deny another goal. They stood firm to

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scramble the ball to safety and secure three much-needed points in

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the Hunter Champions League football.

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Just 12 days after giving birth, Reading boss Kelly Chambers was back

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in the technical area to oversee the arrival of Notts County Ladies,

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early on and off all is going to something spectacular, but her

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effort was tipped away by the outstretched Megan Walsh. Five

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minutes before half-time, it was County who got her nose in front,

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Dani Buet with her first goal of the campaign. Reading came out after the

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interval rejuvenated, Follett clearly had faith in her right foot.

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There was still time for a late drama. In the 90th minute, Royals

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defenders Rebecca Jane somehow denied Jess Clarke, and then Eileen

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Whelan on the line, so the full-time whistle went with Reading still

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looking for that first win in WSL one.

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Congratulations to Kelly Chambers, that is Reading's six Troy in nine.

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Doncaster still bottom, they do have five games in hand on Sunderland,

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though. A bit of a break now for most teams, but only a few more

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sleeps until the Olympic football starts, sadly, no Team GB but can we

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look beyond the usual suspects, do we think? It should be exciting for

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us players in GP who should be a part of it. USA are definitely the

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favourites. They are in form and flying, but as a national team, it

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would strengthen us to be playing against the likes of these teams,

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and it is a massive tournament that we miss out on. To clarify the

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reasons why, Kelly Simmons, the Football Association's director of

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women's football, said there is no possibility of securing a place for

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a GB team because of the position from the other home nations. What

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will Team GB be missing out on? Valuable tournament experience and

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life changing experiences where you work with other athletes, you see

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them prepare and how they live their lives. For me it was an eye-opener,

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and I was another tournament better off, it was for years ago yesterday

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I led the team out at Wembley in front of over 70,000 fans, and our

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sport needs it in terms of the profiler gave us. We are missing

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another opportunity to showcase our game, and I think that is really

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sad. Hopefully this will be resolved at some point. Other sports resolve

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it, and I don't see why football don't. He certainly do, they have

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whichever home nation makes the qualification criteria represents GB

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in their sport, so I just hope for the future, the experiences we both

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have, that another group of international players can represent

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GB in football at the Olympics. And it was only for years ago that they

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played at Wembley. Ireland are looking down Wembley way and seeing

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it packed full of people, it reminded me of a men's cup final

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day, that excitement and buzz is something I have never had before,

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and it is just unreal. You cannot buy memory is like that. I remember

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leaving the team out and the crowd was incredible, it was the best

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night of my career. You will of course be able to stay up-to-date on

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all the Olympic football by heading to the BBC Sport website. Bristol

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city were in WSL one during the last Olympus, and despite regular --

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relegation, they remain on course to bounce back to the top flight of the

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first time of asking. As the vixens recorded a first win on the road

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since early May on Saturday night. That win put Willie Kirk's site

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temporarily top of the WSL to table until Yeovil was much too- zero win

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at Aston Villa moved back to the summit. That is about it from us.

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There is a bit of a break until we return on Monday the 29th of August,

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where we will have the best of the WSL one action from the bank holiday

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weekend, including Chelsea's trip to Birmingham. That is at 11.15 on BBC

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Two. So, the momentum is with Manchester City, still undefeated

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and now four points clear at the top of WSL one thanks to a hat-trick

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from super Stanway. Goodbye for now. We're enjoying

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an awesome summer of sport,

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