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Welcome to Wembley. It's the third time the Women's FA Cup Final has | :00:28. | :00:34. | |
been played at the National Stadium. On this occasion, it's a tale of two | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
blue cities. Manchester City Women are the dominant force in the | :00:41. | :00:46. | |
domestic game. WSL title winners 2016 and Champions League | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
semifinalists this year. They are packed with international stars. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Eight of them in the England squad, plus the World Player of the Year, | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
Carli Lloyd, of the USA. But they've never been to the FA Cup final | :01:00. | :01:04. | |
before. Birmingham City Ladies lifted this trophy in 2012 and beat | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
the last two Wembley winners to get here. They drew at Man City in the | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
lead ten days ago, and in Ellen White they have a striker playing in | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
her fourth FA Cup final with a third different club. It's a new | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
experience for the fans of both clubs, strolling up Wembley Way on | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
Women's FA Cup Final day. The FA are expecting a record crowd, surpassing | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
the 32,000 here last year. It promises to be quite the occasion | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
and with me here at Wembley to enjoy it, two players who have lifted the | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
FA Cup, Rachel as Everton goalkeeper in 2010, and Rachel Scott. Mark | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
Sampson reached the FA Cup final twice, I'll give you credit, as the | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
boss of Bristol Academy. Alex, you captained Arsenal to success here 12 | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
months ago. Why is it different playing here at Wembley, compared to | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
other FA Cup finals? I suppose because when you start out as a kid, | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
the dream is you want to play at Wembley, so to be able to go on and | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
walk up those Wembley stares and lift the trophy is a dream come | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
true. You've been in that many finals, we were trying to work out, | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
what have we decided on? It's between ten and 11. You are showing | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
off! Mark, seven of your players in the England squad are starting the | :02:29. | :02:32. | |
Manchester City today, let's mention Ellen White playing for Birmingham. | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
How important is it for your players to have experience of playing in | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
these big occasions? It is important. Alex has plenty of | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
experience by the sounds of it, but it's a big difference in as much as | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
the goal is the same size and the pitches the same size, it's | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
different with the crowd and the occasion. It will be interesting to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
see how Manchester City handle it, but in particular Birmingham. Ellen | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
is the only experienced player on the bench. She will rise to the | :02:59. | :03:06. | |
occasion. Are we underestimating Birmingham? We know Manchester City | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
are the favourites, no one is disagreeing with that. There was a | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
dress rehearsal ten days ago in the WSL Spring series and it finished in | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
a draw. It's dangerous to underestimate Birmingham. | :03:20. | :03:20. | |
Absolutely. I think Manchester City will have learned their lesson from | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
last week, when they drew 1-1. Manchester City were breached, and | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
they found it very difficult to penetrate Birmingham. Today will be | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
a really tight affair. We will be watching the best female football in | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
the world today, that's official. American Carli Lloyd is the current | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
fever Player of the Year. Manchester City's Olympic and World Cup winner | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
told Sue Smith it all started with hours of practice on a new Jersey | :03:47. | :03:53. | |
field. For me, the foundation that was laid there was just playing with | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
freedom, going to the park, playing with my friends, playing with boys, | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
just living and breathing the game. That's ultimately what set me up to | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
become the level that I am now. We've had stars before it being this | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
game of course, but no one quite like Carli Lloyd. -- in the English | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
game. For club and country, she made a sensational impact whenever she's | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
called on, in New Jersey. In 2012, this was the start of belief. My | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
story at that Olympics was very unknown before I left to come over | :04:31. | :04:38. | |
to England, and the injury happened in the first game. I slid over, 16 | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
minutes in. After scoring two goals in that final, I have more belief in | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
myself that I could get to become one of the best players in the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
world. The World Cup final, does it bring back any emotions, overriding | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
emotions? Yes, it brings chills to my arm, still thinking about it. We | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
did it on one of the biggest dangers. Everybody was watching. I | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
remember after I hit the third goal, I just was standing there and I was | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
waiting and waiting and waiting and when it went in, I was like, oh my | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
god. COMMENTATOR: | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
The long-range effort from Lloyd. Oh my goodness! I ran up to Hope and | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
she had her arms around me, she was like, are you even human? We just | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
started laughing. I am human but hard work pays off, for sure. There | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
are some amazing, amazing players out there and I think that what I've | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
tried to do as a player is become the most complete player. It's | :05:41. | :05:46. | |
funny, because as I'm standing here in Manchester and part of this, you | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
would never would have thought I'd have the opportunity to do this in | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
women's football. Wembley is a special stadium for me. Now to be | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
headed back there for the FA Cup final is truly an unbelievable | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
moment. Hopefully after I leave there, we will be on the pitch. | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
She's so impressive and a lot of the fans will be looking forward to | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
seeing her. What will she bring to Manchester City today? Gosh, when | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
she describes herself as the complete player, I'd agree with her. | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
She can finish from distance, she is so strong on the ball, she can | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
tackle, she is fantastic in the air. She really is phenomenal. Also | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
bringing experience that Manchester City, I wouldn't say they are | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
lacking, but that world-class experience and winning and winning | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
Olympics, winning World Cups, that is something that is very hard to | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
find, so to have her at Man City will be a huge plus to those goals | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
in the dressing room. Alex, your ex-Arsenal team-mate, Ellen White, | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
is starting today. How much of a difference will her firepower bring? | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
A huge difference. She is a defender's worst nightmare, she | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
never gives up no matter what. They will be looking for her today, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
Birmingham. I'm sure you remember her scoring at the 90th minute. | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
Looking back at that, it was game over as Alex will remember. Ellen is | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
an excellent player, one who always delivers. She will always bring that | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
energy and intensity. I'm sure she'll bring that today, whatever | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
position she ends up playing. The teams are in the tunnel. We are | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
ready for the two Blues to go head-to-head. Birmingham Blues. | :07:28. | :07:38. | |
Manchester Blues. Giant killers. Champions. Our first Wembley final. | :07:39. | :07:49. | |
Let's talk about Meaghan Campbell next and those incredible long | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
throws, very difficult to defend against. Yes, they are no longer a | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
secret weapon. They used to be. You see the havoc they cause. Pretty | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
much level with the penalty spot, it ends up almost, teams have to almost | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
defend like a white free kick or even like a corner maybe, but they | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
will know what to expect and expect they are solid defensive outfit that | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
they will defend better than Reading did last week. Key players that you | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
are looking up for today? I think on that note the Birmingham goalkeeper, | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
she is excellent dealing with crosses and she has a big game | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
today. Meaghan is clearly going to chuck the ball in the box and you | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
can't look beyond Karli, playing off the front today will have a big | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
impact today. Here we go, the 2017 FSC Women's FA Cup Final. To talk | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
this through it, Sue Smith, twice a cup finalist with Leeds, and | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
Jonathan Pearce. COMMENTATOR: | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
Good afternoon, always a pleasure under privileged to be at Wembley, | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
but any showpiece occasion and ASBOs players awaiting the tunnel I can | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
tell you this is the biggest FA women's Cup Final of them all so | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
far, and a lovely sunny day. Breezy, a sprinkling of rain earlier. | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
Manchester City looking to complete that clean sweep of domestic | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
trophies inside a calendar year, they've targeted at first FA Cup tie | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
for the last six months. Star names down there, star billing, against | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
Birmingham City, as you've heard, in their second final, having beaten | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
Chelsea on penalties at Ashton Gate in 2012. They've lost just three of | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
their last 24 matches in all. This is a rapidly developing Cup, so | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
ignore them at your peril. As they walk out here to what is hoped to be | :09:35. | :09:43. | |
a 40,000 crowd, the Dean is absolutely deafening, I can tell | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
you, as we have the pyrotechnics, healthy support for Manchester City, | :09:47. | :09:53. | |
of course Champions League semifinalists very much the top team | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
in England right now. They really are and I think looking at this | :09:59. | :10:01. | |
game, you think Birmingham are going in as underdogs, but I think their | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
route to the final has been really difficult for them. Obviously | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
beating Chelsea and Arsenal on the way. I think they'll be confident | :10:09. | :10:11. | |
going into this game and I expect a really tight final. Well, they've | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
got so many of the England internationals there, Mark Sampson | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
as you heard is in the studio. He will be casting an eye over his Euro | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
squad members for you, as the presentation party come out from the | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
FA, Greg Clark and Sue Hough, Elaine are missed down there aren't the | :10:33. | :10:38. | |
director from the sponsors, SSE, is down there as well. Steph Houghton | :10:39. | :10:45. | |
is along the line of players. Her fourth final in the FA Cup. Won a | :10:46. | :10:51. | |
couple with Arsenal. But actually another final, Leeds and Arsenal, | :10:52. | :11:01. | |
you were there. Yes, we got beaten in that game and I think sometimes | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
you do learn from those experiences. I spoke to Steph about that, she | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
said she learned from losing more than winning. What's it like to be | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
on the winning FA Cup final side, Sue? How many did you playing? I | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
played a few cup finals and lost the ball, so thank you for bringing that | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
up. More than I played but! We mustn't surrender mistake -- we | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
mustn't underestimate Birmingham City, that's for sure. You think | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
they are tough and durable, can they spring a surprise today? I don't see | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
why not. Like you said, they are very strong, very resilient, | :11:38. | :11:44. | |
difficult to break down at the back. I look at the Manchester City team | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
and they are full of world-class players that can play in the bigger | :11:50. | :11:51. | |
games and make something happen from defence to attack, so if they are on | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
their game it's very difficult for Birmingham. They've got the quality, | :11:55. | :12:00. | |
they signed good players, Ellen White, who can be key for them going | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
forward. Great for the supporters to come down here and see their team in | :12:05. | :12:12. | |
an FA Cup final. A record crowd, we believe. Manchester City, unbeaten | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
in the last seven meetings between the two sides, in the competition | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
that's been dominated by Arsenal over the years. They've been here 14 | :12:22. | :12:31. | |
times, in the last 13 finals. The Scottish side, Stuart and Thistle, | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
in the first final, in 1971. The days have changed. # God save save | :12:38. | :12:48. | |
our gracious Queen Tonge Long live our noble Queen | :12:49. | :12:57. | |
# God save our Queen # Send her victorious | :12:58. | :13:08. | |
# Happy and glorious # Long to reign over us | :13:09. | :13:22. | |
# God Save The Queen #. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
What a moment for Marc Skinner down there, for the Spring series the | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
Birmingham coach, a licence holder. It's a reminder of the teams for | :13:37. | :13:57. | |
you, Birmingham City have one change to the side that beat Chelsea. | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
I think she will play just behind that front two. Rebecca Welch took | :14:03. | :14:14. | |
the 2016 Continental Cup final between the two, she's the referee. | :14:15. | :14:22. | |
Manchester City, that side contains the double world Footballer of the | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
Year, Carli Lloyd, we've been talking about her, scored twice for | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
the USA in the Olympic final. She went for a jog around the stadium | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
this morning. Seven members of the European Championship squad, two | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
surprises, Meaghan Campbell, the long throw expert is third -- | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
preferred at the back to Abbie McManus, who hasn't missed a minute | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
so far. Toni Duggan will be heartbroken Lloyd will play higher | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
up than she has been playing. Lawley signed from Birmingham in December. | :14:54. | :15:01. | |
A big day for her, against her former side, so... It's always a big | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
day, playing an FA Cup final live on TV at Wembley, but when you are | :15:08. | :15:09. | |
playing against your old club it makes it that bit more special. She | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
will be really up for this game and wanting to show just how much she's | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
maybe improved, going on to Manchester City. | :15:19. | :15:31. | |
Manchester City, their route to the final Reading at home. Bristol City | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
away. And Liverpool at home in the semifinal. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
With a goal by Lawley. Here is Steph Houghton, chosen by | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
the national coach to be manager because of her ambition, because of | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
her drive, because of her sheer determination to lead players | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
through difficult tasks. She leads by example. She's developed in that | :16:02. | :16:08. | |
role so much and she's been a really good captain for both club and | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
country and all the players that play alongside her speak highly of | :16:12. | :16:26. | |
her. A quick word for Kerys Harrop. Another leader, probably doesn't get | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
as much credit as she deserves. We will see what a good defender she is | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
today. We did the World Cup final in Vancouver. To be honest, I think | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
they would have put up a better showing of Japan. In the first 16 | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
minutes they were blown away. That was the player out there who did the | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
damage. She really did, Carli Lloyd was outstanding that day. It's a | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
game for her, a big player, and that's exactly what she can do. We | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
have seen how good she was in that final. Here we go, the SSE Women's | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
FA Cup final. Manchester City against Birmingham City in the dark | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
blue. Manchester City kicking from right-to-left frshgs the East End of | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the stadium, to the west. The Birmingham City fans behind the goal | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
away to the left-hand side of your screen. | :17:15. | :17:23. | |
Safely back to the goalkeeper. One of the many reasons why we can point | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
to the fact that Birmingham City are very much an up Wardley mobile side, | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
because of the quality of the players they're bringing in. You can | :17:36. | :17:43. | |
see it's a little deeper there. Mayling loses possession. | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
A slight change to that back three in the way we thought they might run | :17:55. | :18:06. | |
it. Sargeant is further to the right. Mannion is in the middle and | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
Harrop is to the left of the three. No quality on the final ball. That's | :18:10. | :18:47. | |
exactly what Manchester City are going to try to do. With Birmingham | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
playing three at the back they're going to look to get out wide in | :18:51. | :18:56. | |
those spaces. Lucy Bronze loves to get forward. Sometimes she's the | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
best attacking player. Didn't really have the quality there on the final | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
ball in. Lucy Bronze PFA Player of the Year | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
Father a second time. You spoke to her recently about that award. I | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
did. Really well deserved. What's so good about Lucy Bronze, I don't | :19:14. | :19:15. | |
think she realises how good she is. Carli Lloyd. Surrounded by forward | :19:16. | :19:35. | |
blue shirts. Back towards Demi Stokes. | :19:36. | :19:43. | |
Mannion. Local girl to Birmingham City, playing in Solihull. | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
Very familiar looking Manchester City defence, if you are an England | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
follower. Bardsley in goal. Bronze and Stokes in there. Bronze, | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
Houghton and Stokes all from the north-east. | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
Mannion scored against Manchester City back in October in a league | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
game. May well have come off Lucy Bronze. | :20:10. | :20:51. | |
Indeed it did. Good pressure on Bronze there. Very quick Ayisi for | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
Birmingham City. They look to run the channels. He willine White will | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
obviously be the deeper player and will want to get on the ball but | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
they'll use the pace of both Brazil. Good defending by Lucy Bronze who | :21:03. | :21:17. | |
does a good job in the air in both penalty areas. | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
She was fouled anyway. The referee has officiated here | :21:21. | :21:34. | |
before, but not actually out in the middle. | :21:35. | :21:47. | |
Here is Harrop. Looking for White. That's punched | :21:48. | :21:57. | |
away. That's not a bad ball into the box. From a deep position it was a | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
good run forward. From a decent player. | :22:03. | :22:12. | |
Decent start to the game. Here is Sargeant. Mannion seeing a | :22:13. | :22:24. | |
lot of the ball. Cut out there by Keira Walsh. She | :22:25. | :22:41. | |
protects the back four, breaks up play very well. An important role in | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
the run to the Champions League semifinals. | :22:45. | :22:52. | |
That's a decent ball. Blocked by... Wonder if they choose the wrong | :22:53. | :22:54. | |
option. Should have come to the left side. You are right, that's where | :22:55. | :22:59. | |
the option was. Christiansen wanted to play it down to the right to | :23:00. | :23:03. | |
Parris but the option was better down this left side. Manchester City | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
beaten by Lyon in the Champions League semifinals. Despite Lloyd's | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
goal in the return leg when they won 1-0, that first leg deficit of 3-1 | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
was too much. White couldn't keep that in. The | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
family here watching today. We have had a chat with them. Bumped into | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
them around the world watching England, they're great travellers. | :23:31. | :23:36. | |
They go to every game of Ellen White's. They're probably more | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
nervous than Ellen. Her mum was saying how scared she was and how | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
she had a nervous stomach and Ellen takes everything in her stride. Here | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
is Ayisi. An error. She got the shot away. It's a little bit of a nervy | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
error at the back there for Manchester City. By Campbell. | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Straightaway you could see Ayisi is on to that and wants to take a shot | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
and test Karen Bardsley. I am sure that's what Marc Skinner will have | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
said. They have a bit of a history, they were sent off after a nasty | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
tussle back in the early months of 2015. | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
A few fists thrown. Both of them banned. | :24:23. | :24:35. | |
Tucked away for Manchester City throw. | :24:36. | :24:54. | |
Stokes, good run from her. Progressive ball back. Loves to get | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
forward on the run. Here is Lucy Bronze. | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
Back into the middle. Lloyd is at the far post. Headed back across | :25:03. | :25:15. | |
goal. Claimed by Berger. Interested her thoughts on joining | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
Birmingham City, the experienced goalkeeper. Their vision convinced | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
me she says, it's very much a club building progressively, Birmingham | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
City. They are. You can see that by the players they've brought in and | :25:32. | :25:34. | |
how they're improving every game, every game I see they seem to be | :25:35. | :25:38. | |
improving and she's a massive part of that. She's been outstanding in a | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
games I have watched, without a doubt one of the best goalkeepers in | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
the WSL. It builds confidence when you have a good keeper behind you. | :25:49. | :26:07. | |
Notts County went out of business before the series. England keeper | :26:08. | :26:18. | |
born in Santa Monica, California. I believe her family are from the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Manchester area, Stockport I think. You are right, they are. It was an | :26:24. | :26:29. | |
easy decision when she came to Manchester. | :26:30. | :26:42. | |
Christiansen is like a mini Steph Houghton out there I think, | :26:43. | :26:52. | |
lookalikes. Done well. That's a dangerous cross in. Looking for one | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
of the most popular players in the game, Jill Scott. It was a good ball | :26:59. | :27:05. | |
in. Fantastic defending from Harrop. When you know you have players like | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
Jill Scott and Carli Lloyd who are good in the air you have to get the | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
ball in the box. Good delivery, they'll get on the end of it. A | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
winner in 2010, Everton against Arsenal, Jill Scott. That was played | :27:17. | :27:26. | |
at the Nottingham Forest ground. Having the final at Wembley really | :27:27. | :27:28. | |
has made a difference for the Cup final. Christiansen will take the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
corner kick. That's a good claim by Berger. Came | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
a long way and got there. Very convincing. | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
Quick release, as well. Back towards Sarah Mayling. | :27:48. | :28:08. | |
The pain of losing a final, she was in the continental Cup when the | :28:09. | :28:17. | |
Lincoln Notts team were beaten by Arsenal back in 2013. | :28:18. | :28:25. | |
Two coaches today watching on. Nick Cushing. | :28:26. | :28:35. | |
Appointed in... Another A licence holder. Level-headed. | :28:36. | :28:46. | |
Campbell's throws are a serious weapon. First appearance in the Cup | :28:47. | :29:06. | |
run this season, Meaghan Campbell. Towards Parris. | :29:07. | :29:14. | |
Kept her eye on the ball. Got her body shape right. A good tackle. | :29:15. | :29:50. | |
In the European squad for 2017, Stokes. Suffered the heartache of | :29:51. | :29:57. | |
missing out on Canada and the World Cup finals. | :29:58. | :30:03. | |
Good pressure. A World Cup winner and double | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
Olympic champion. She knows how to work, Carli Lloyd. What was she like | :30:08. | :30:16. | |
when you met her? Nice, professional, typical American, | :30:17. | :30:18. | |
driven, works hard on and off the field. Wants to get better, despite | :30:19. | :30:24. | |
winning all these trophies and individual awards, she still wants | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
more. She wants that drive. That's really going to help Manchester City | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
to have a player like that on their team. She spoke highly of you as | :30:31. | :30:33. | |
well. She paid me for that! Ellen White, a deserving player, | :30:34. | :30:46. | |
isn't she? She's had two or three bad knee injuries, certainly a | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
couple in the last two or three years. She missed the whole of 2014. | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
She has struggled with injuries, unfortunately. She's a top, top | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
player, a true professional. She works so hard, somebody you want in | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
your team, because you know she will make defenders' life a misery. | :31:05. | :31:14. | |
Brazil has got the pace. To trouble Manchester City defence. Haven't won | :31:15. | :31:24. | |
any of the last four games, unless you include a penalty shoot-out | :31:25. | :31:30. | |
against Chelsea, as a victory. They won their opening three games of the | :31:31. | :31:37. | |
Spring Series, Birmingham, this team are by far the more fluent | :31:38. | :31:44. | |
goal-scorers. 15 goals this season, six in the last two. This is Parris. | :31:45. | :31:56. | |
What a bubbly character she can be. Every time she gets the ball, her | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
first touches forward. She wants to drive at defenders and their life a | :32:03. | :32:11. | |
misery. In the sixth round away up distal city, future European | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
champions, Bristol City. One can dream. The trouble is the dream has | :32:17. | :32:18. | |
gone on too long without realisation. Maybe one day. I bob in | :32:19. | :32:28. | |
one day. Goodness me, that hit the side netting and Megan Campbell got | :32:29. | :32:35. | |
in there. Looks like a corner, something they'd worked on in | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
training. Just a little flick round the corner, it was actually unlucky, | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
to hit the side netting there. Known for her long throws, but she could | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
score the opener at Wembley. I think she'd be known for something else. | :32:48. | :33:00. | |
Carli Lloyd, is a USA international. 237 international appearances, if | :33:01. | :33:18. | |
you include Olympic Games though, maybe gives a realistic air to that, | :33:19. | :33:25. | |
but anyway. Paige Williams, a Liverpool girl. She was also at | :33:26. | :33:37. | |
Everton for the 2010 final. She wasn't in the first team. | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
INAUDIBLE This will be taken left footed. | :33:40. | :33:57. | |
Steph Houghton in there and Lucy Bronze to attack the space, a little | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
touch could send this in. Bronze starts that run in there, aimed | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
towards Lucy Bronze. That's the next Mac Manchester City lead Birmingham | :34:07. | :34:10. | |
by 1-0, in the 20 17th Cup Final. The minute free kick was set up, the | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
way Birmingham set themselves up defensively on the way that Bronze | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
and Houghton set themselves up to have the run, you thought it was | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
going to go in. Lucy Bronze. It was a fantastic delivery. We spoken of | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
their set pieces on throw-in is. What a ball that is, whipped in with | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
so much pace, and Lucy Bronze does what she does. She gets in front of | :34:33. | :34:38. | |
the defender. Defensively Kerys Houghton will be disappointed, she's | :34:39. | :34:43. | |
put all her effort in there, but Lucy Bronze, a top, top header. | :34:44. | :34:47. | |
She's another big player that can step up to the occasion. It's all | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
about the delivery. Scored the goal that beat burning in the Continental | :34:52. | :34:56. | |
Cup final and puts Manchester City ahead against the same opponents. | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
She was a very young girl on the Sunderland team, beaten in the Cup | :35:01. | :35:09. | |
Final by Arsenal in 2009. The PFA Footballer of the Year puts | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
Manchester City one up. The next five minutes for Birmingham City are | :35:13. | :35:19. | |
absolutely crucial. They need to manage, Sue, the next five. Yes, | :35:20. | :35:24. | |
this is the most difficult part of the game. Obviously when you first | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
start you want to get that good touching, but also when you can see | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
the goal and it's a long way to go, they need to consolidate, get back | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
into their shape and make sure that Manchester City don't score again | :35:37. | :35:45. | |
quickly. Here's Bronze. Interesting talking to various managers and | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
coaches over the years, how they do chunk again, they call it, some of | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
them, they set out to manage various spells of the game. Some say digging | :35:56. | :36:01. | |
when you have conceded a goal, some say, with Ruud Gullit, and Inter | :36:02. | :36:09. | |
Milan, their mantra was, once you scored one, score three. For | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
Manchester City, they need to concentrate, they say you are most | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
vulnerable after you have just scored. A lot of 50-50s and so far | :36:18. | :36:28. | |
Keira Walsh is playing very well for Manchester City, holding midfield | :36:29. | :36:33. | |
role. They are just sitting there, it allows both full-backs to get | :36:34. | :36:37. | |
forward. Demi Stokes and Lucy Bronze on the other side. Another attacking | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
option. They've scored in 28 games in a row, Birmingham. | :36:45. | :36:53. | |
The pace of the game... INAUDIBLE | :36:54. | :37:10. | |
Mayling is from the Sutton Coldfield area of Birmingham. | :37:11. | :38:03. | |
Optimistic from them. The youngster, only 19, Sarah Mayling. | :38:04. | :38:27. | |
It's never a good thing if you are a Scrooge like character like me. The | :38:28. | :38:36. | |
glorious occasion at Wembley. Great to work with Sue Smith the game. -- | :38:37. | :38:42. | |
again. Good pressure by Manchester City. | :38:43. | :39:03. | |
They've got all the facilities, though, haven't they? In that | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
wonderful Academy Stadium, one of the fittest looking WSL teams I've | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
seen. The facilities are outstanding. They just treat them | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
exactly the same as they do the men's team, so they eat in the same | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
places, they obviously train at the Man City academy. Speak to the girls | :39:21. | :39:31. | |
and they say, we probably couldn't go to any other club because they | :39:32. | :39:33. | |
get treated so well. That's why they can attract world players of the | :39:34. | :39:35. | |
year, like Carli Lloyd. Here's one for you, no pressure, | :39:36. | :39:50. | |
because he's listening in, but was he right to name the squad so early | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
for the European Championships? It gives them a chance, of course, to | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
get prepared mentally, as a group, as the unit. Yes, I'm sure he'd | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
answer the question better than I do. The reason for him naming it so | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
early, I think quite a few were surprised because all of the squads | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
I've been in it's never happened before but the fact he can get it | :40:13. | :40:15. | |
squad together early and work on that sort of what he needs to work | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
on really and create that good atmosphere that we've seen in | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
Canada. A wonderful atmosphere it was, real bonding between | :40:23. | :40:30. | |
management, players, supporters, media and one of the best I've | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
experienced in my long time in the game. He is Birmingham with a free | :40:34. | :40:40. | |
kick. It will be Paige Williams who will take it. | :40:41. | :40:49. | |
Paige Williams, obviously went to Italy to try and develop a game and | :40:50. | :41:10. | |
I certainly think she's come back a better player. A very good left | :41:11. | :41:17. | |
foot. Birmingham's side has kept a clean sheet in the last four finals. | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
Manchester City one up at the moment, a lapse of concentration | :41:23. | :41:28. | |
there by Lucy Lawler. Manchester City I know they won the game 3-0, | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
but they had to play in the WSL and won at Bristol in the week. They | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
did, and I think to play away as well as Bristol, so they were | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
travelling, they've got back to contend with. Here's Lucy Bronze for | :41:43. | :41:48. | |
them. It's two! Izzy Christiansen arriving, but it's a lovely goals | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
and Manchester City very much in the driving seat. 25 minutes gone in the | :41:54. | :41:59. | |
2017 women's Cup Final, Manchester City goat 2-0 up against Birmingham | :42:00. | :42:06. | |
City. The goal-scorer turned provider. Sometimes she's Manchester | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
City's best attacking player. Good pressure, wins the ball back. Her | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
first thought is to drive forward. She's looking up, where is my | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
option, and her option is coming in. Izzy Christiansen comes running in, | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
that late run into the box. She times her runs so, so well. Lovely | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
delivery. What a finish from Izzy Christiansen. It's a long way back | :42:28. | :42:39. | |
for Birmingham now. Former Birmingham City player, a player who | :42:40. | :42:41. | |
watched from the bench in 2012 final, when they beat Chelsea. | :42:42. | :42:43. | |
Scores against her old team. Manchester City are in a dominant | :42:44. | :42:45. | |
position now. That's a difficult technique, as the ball is bouncing | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
up its easy to lean back and hit that over the bar. Gets her head | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
over it. Lovely break, lovely cross, super finish. Really good goal. | :42:56. | :43:01. | |
They came with a game plan, Birmingham. Kept it very, very | :43:02. | :43:13. | |
close, under wraps in the week. No leaks of the way they were going to | :43:14. | :43:19. | |
play. But what is plan B? Jill Scott wins that one. | :43:20. | :43:26. | |
Manchester City have it again, Keira Walsh just mopped up anything that | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
has been losing there. Gets it back again from Stokes. Steph Houghton | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
has crept into a bit of space. Very close to the edge of the | :43:38. | :43:44. | |
penalty area, Ann-Katrin Berger. Good work again by Izzy | :43:45. | :44:05. | |
Christiansen, covering that. It's just a little bit laboured thereby | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
Ayisi. Need to take a touch out of her feet and even have a go, have a | :44:11. | :44:15. | |
go at goal, but Izzy Christiansen very sharp, alert to any sort of | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
situation. She's also got the engine to get forward and score the goal | :44:19. | :44:21. | |
we've just seen. She's settled down a bit, Campbell. | :44:22. | :44:36. | |
Bronze, very, very comfortable and confident. | :44:37. | :44:47. | |
Parris, stayed out wide, but has to Jill Scott will work here, the | :44:48. | :44:57. | |
Birmingham City coach. Birmingham at the moment can't cope | :44:58. | :45:30. | |
with Manchester City's movement and the way they're interchanging in | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
positions. It's difficult for them to mark the players. This | :45:37. | :45:44. | |
competition' changed so much since its inception back in 1977. | :45:45. | :45:49. | |
Southampton won five of the first six of them. The FA took direct | :45:50. | :45:58. | |
control over women's football in 93. Here is Ayisi for Birmingham City. | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
Out comes a confident Karen Bardsley. | :46:04. | :46:15. | |
Ayisi did well. They needs to get into those channels and drive at | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
players and try and get the ball into the box and hope somebody's | :46:22. | :46:29. | |
going to be in there whether it's White or Brazil. Bardsley is always | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
going to come out and collect easily. 5'11", Karen. That's tall | :46:35. | :46:40. | |
for the women's game. Jill Scott of course the tallest out there. | :46:41. | :46:49. | |
Crouchy is her nickname. It is. They say she is a joker on the team bus | :46:50. | :46:59. | |
and the dressing room. She's all pulling out a few dance moves. | :47:00. | :47:05. | |
You did it when you were in the England shirt on the pitch. Twinkle | :47:06. | :47:15. | |
toes! Not got the moves of Jill Scott, though. Some of us never had | :47:16. | :47:23. | |
them. Good timing on the pass. Now Lawley. | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
Being chased. Gets a shot away and Berger makes sure it goes wide. | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
It's another really fast break from Manchester City. They are looking to | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
get the ball out wide at every opportunity. You can see the | :47:38. | :47:46. | |
wingbacks trying to get back. Sargeants it difficult. Wonder if | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
Carli Lloyd thinks she could have maybe crossed that. You have to have | :47:52. | :47:57. | |
a go when you are running in there. Got a goal against Liverpool in the | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
semifinal, Lawley. Christiansen's corner kick. | :48:04. | :48:08. | |
Back sensibly to Campbell. That's a lovely delivery to the back stick. | :48:09. | :48:16. | |
And it's three! It's Carli Lloyd! Olympic finals. | :48:17. | :48:21. | |
World Cup final. And now the FA Cup final. The big game scorer. The | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
world's best player. Carli Lloyd, surely puts the FA Cup final beyond | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
Birmingham with 31 minutes played. Birmingham can't cope with the | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
delivery into the box. It comes out. Christiansen plays the ball out. | :48:36. | :48:43. | |
This is a lovely deep delivery. Carli Lloyd outjumps Berger in the | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
goal. Good header. They've such quality in the box. Poor defending | :48:48. | :48:51. | |
from Birmingham. White is there with two players. You have got to pick up | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
those players when you know how good they are in the air. You know that | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
Manchester City are going to get the ball into the box, you have to get | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
players up. They've had a sort of a gathering, the Birmingham City | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
players, to try to sort themselves out and they very much need to sort | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
themselves out. Southampton hold the record for the biggest ever victory, | :49:15. | :49:23. | |
8-2 over QPR in 1978. Pat Chapman scored six that day. One of the | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
forerunners of the English women's game. At the moment you fear a | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
drubbing for Birmingham City. Might not reach those proportions | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
especially if Carter digs in like she did just there and wins the ball | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
back. But it's been a horrible, horrible opening 32 minutes for | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
Birmingham City. I think sometimes you have to play the occasion, as | :49:44. | :49:49. | |
well. It just looks like Birmingham, the only real experience they've | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
got, they've got the goalkeeper Berger. White really needs to pull | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
those players together now. It's difficult, when you are 3-0 down | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
after 30 minutes they need to dig in, exactly what you said. Has the | :50:03. | :50:14. | |
occasion got to some players? Should the keeper have got the cross? | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
You have to always say the goalkeeper has to beat the centre | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
forward coming in. So, yes, definitely should have done better. | :50:24. | :50:29. | |
I think also defensively Ellen White was left with Houghton and Carli | :50:30. | :50:32. | |
Lloyd. Got to be able to pick up players. You can see it again. | :50:33. | :50:40. | |
That's a brilliant delivery. Yes, goalkeeper has to at least get a | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
punch on it. It was a late whip on the ball. As she came out it started | :50:45. | :50:47. | |
drifting further away. It was a brilliant cross in. Yeah. You can't | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
really take anything away from that delivery. It's too fantastic - it's | :50:53. | :50:56. | |
two fantastic deliveries from her. Lawley again. | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
Looking for Scott. Dispossessed in there by Hegerberg. The game largely | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
has by-passed a player scribed as one of the best in Europe. A | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
wonderful addition to the team according to the previous manager of | :51:13. | :51:21. | |
Birmingham City. Quit after five years in December. | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
Good pressure. Back to White. Couldn't get the shot away. Ran away | :51:28. | :51:38. | |
from her. Mayling's cross. Manchester City have a problem... | :51:39. | :51:41. | |
May be a wound to the face. She tried to call the referee's | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
attention to it. The referee hasn't seen it. | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
Is it her eye? She's seeing if she has clear vision. | :51:50. | :52:06. | |
Gone down on to her knees. She has developed now into one of | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
the best defenders I would say beyond Europe, one of the best | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
defenders in the world. Completely agree with you. She's got better and | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
better every season. Considering she had such a nightmare couple of | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
seasons with a bad knee injury, she's just got - just improved. | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
That's a contact lens, isn't it? It is. Carry on, sorry. I said earlier | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
the fact that she still is wanting to improve and wanting to develop | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
but she's such a good athlete and now very good on the ball. Can also | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
add goals to her game. Yeah, without a doubt she is a world-class | :52:48. | :52:54. | |
rightback. An important little discussion going on in there. | :52:55. | :53:04. | |
With the coach. While he watches on, Nick Cushing. | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
Part of the development, 12-16 development stage at Manchester City | :53:13. | :53:18. | |
before taking up the women's yob in 2013, November. Alan Mahon is his | :53:19. | :53:31. | |
assistant. He worked in Tranmere. That's your part of the world. Yes, | :53:32. | :53:36. | |
final today. Yes, it's here. Is it here? It is here. That was my | :53:37. | :53:48. | |
first club Tranmere Rovers, I always look out for their results. Busy | :53:49. | :53:50. | |
week for Wembley Stadium. The pitch is looking great. That's a | :53:51. | :53:58. | |
lovely looking ball attempted away from the back. | :53:59. | :54:08. | |
Too long in the end by Mannion. Busy old spell for the great | :54:09. | :54:16. | |
stadium. Trophy coming up next week. Then FA Cup final. | :54:17. | :54:21. | |
Play-offs. A little push on the back of Lucy Bronze. | :54:22. | :54:34. | |
Manchester City have kept 15 clean sheets in the last 21 games. | :54:35. | :54:40. | |
Birmingham have struggled to score goals. Three in their last five in | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
all competitions. It's that final ball from Birmingham | :54:45. | :55:21. | |
and you wonder is it still nerves? They get into decent positions but | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
either overhit the pass or pick the wrong option. | :55:25. | :55:33. | |
Two teams, from 254 who entered the 47th FA women's Cup. One is the | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
dominant team so far. That's a poor pass out. Straight to Lawley. | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
Lloyd has space. Lawley is pointing where she wants | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
the ball to go. Back to Christiansen. Here is Stokes. Lawley | :55:48. | :55:54. | |
is into the wide position. Birmingham defence readjusts and | :55:55. | :55:57. | |
comes out. Manchester City let them off the | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
hook there. They did. You thought they could have probably carried on | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
down that side. They had two options. It's interesting they | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
switched play. Lawley to Stokes. Took it down well initially. Gone | :56:13. | :56:23. | |
for the chip. She went for the goal. Involved in that Sunderland team | :56:24. | :56:29. | |
beaten by Arsenal back in 2009, Demi Stokes. A young girl then. Went out | :56:30. | :56:34. | |
to America and spent a fair amount of time, first at Vancouver | :56:35. | :56:38. | |
Whitecaps in the American football scene and then on to the University | :56:39. | :56:40. | |
of South Florida. Lost out to Ayisi, Stokes. Has been | :56:41. | :56:54. | |
a couple of ifs, buts and maybes. There has. It's that final delivery. | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
I am sure that's what Marc Skinner will say at half-time. You have got | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
into decent positions, do something with it. Find the pass. | :57:06. | :57:18. | |
Hegerberg is beginning to find room, can't find a teammate. | :57:19. | :57:27. | |
Not the best of afternoons for a player of her ability. | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
I think the midfield three for Manchester City is interesting. | :57:34. | :57:37. | |
Scott and Walsh have been excellent. The first and second to every single | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
ball. Good balance, as well. Lloyd dropping in there to add to | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
numbers, has done superbly well and Lucy Bronze. Towards Jill Scott. | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
Lloyd has made a run from deep. Takes up a dangerous position. | :57:52. | :57:58. | |
If Parris can get in there. Lucy Bronze. Parris. Now a challenge by | :57:59. | :58:08. | |
Hegerberg. She's having a look. A bit hesitant. On by Williams. | :58:09. | :58:13. | |
They're covering the ground so fast, Manchester City. | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
When they pressurise they do it in ones and twos, so it makes it | :58:19. | :58:22. | |
difficult for Birmingham to get out. Tackle in pairs, one of the first | :58:23. | :58:25. | |
drills you are instructed in Azpilicueta a kid. -- you are | :58:26. | :58:39. | |
instructed in as a kid. Very aware, Carli Lloyd. . It comes | :58:40. | :58:53. | |
to Christiansen. Here is Bronze. Carli Lloyd had them mesmerised. | :58:54. | :58:59. | |
Wide by Blonz. Bronze. -- wide by Bronze. Every time Lloyd gets the | :59:00. | :59:13. | |
ball, oozes real class. She always seems to make the right decision. | :59:14. | :59:19. | |
Played well after a shaky start. I am told her grandad is the lead | :59:20. | :59:28. | |
guitarist of the Dubliners, Eamon Campbell. You remember them? No! | :59:29. | :59:41. | |
Well beyond my... A couple of minutes before half-time interval. A | :59:42. | :59:44. | |
couple of minutes of stoppage time, I would think. | :59:45. | :59:51. | |
A little bit of a stoppage for the Lucy Bronze eye thing, what do you | :59:52. | :59:53. | |
call it? Contact lens. That's it. Hegerberg. She's a better player | :59:54. | :00:08. | |
than she has shown here today, I think. | :00:09. | :00:14. | |
Sf She covers a lot of ground. She's energetic. But I think the midfield | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
three have not really allowed her to even get on to the ball. Manchester | :00:18. | :00:21. | |
City have been excellent. One early dangerous attempt by | :00:22. | :00:30. | |
Ayisi. Apart from that, it's been all Manchester City. | :00:31. | :00:45. | |
This is Kerys Harrop's fifth final for the club. | :00:46. | :01:12. | |
Steph Houghton shouting for it. She bustles on and on and on, so typical | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
of her aggressive run. Hegerberg, caught by Carli Lloyd. | :01:20. | :01:37. | |
She's had a couple of yellow cards at Manchester City. I've got to say, | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
that was really good play by Keira Walsh. She was caught in possession | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
by Ellen White but she didn't give up and kept battling back and won | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
the ball. A lovely pass, cooling possession. -- cool in possession. | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
Hooked in by Mayling. A couple of minutes of time added on at the end | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
of the half. It's a Manchester City through, despite the protests of | :02:10. | :02:10. | |
Paige Williams. Scott, no pressure on her there. | :02:11. | :02:28. | |
Really on Walsh. Off the ball they've worked really hard finding a | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
space. They've had to work so hard, | :02:31. | :02:51. | |
Birmingham, the defenders. When you are working hard and not in | :02:52. | :02:58. | |
possession, it is a killer for you. It drains you, you've got the ball, | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
and you have so much more energy. It's a real energy supper when you | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
are just chasing the game. Stokes group under pressure from Lloyd and | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
good work by Christiansen. Parris couldn't bring it down. A high foot | :03:14. | :03:24. | |
thereby Harrop, not given. Bronze, Scott, quickly round the corner. | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
Good football by Manchester City. A little bit of a mix up there. | :03:30. | :03:37. | |
Going to Holland, in the England squad in the summer. Izzy | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
Christiansen, what a good final she's had. | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
Campbell, again, no pressure on her. 3-0 to Manchester City at half-time, | :03:55. | :04:02. | |
Lucy Bronze after 18 minutes, Christiansen lovely goal in seven | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
minutes after that, Carli Lloyd. Your body Manchester City have | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
completely dominated the game. I think Birmingham need to be more | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
compact, more tight, they need to offer options going forward and be | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
better with the ball. The world's best player goes in at half-time | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
with her team, 3-0 up in the FA Cup final. | :04:24. | :04:24. | |
STUDIO: A dream start for Manchester City, | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
and nightmare for Birmingham City. What's your assessment of the first | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
half, Rachel? Birmingham had a spell of about 15 minutes where it was | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
pretty even, they had good possession and they looked fairly | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
dangerous, but City have had chances and they've been really clinical. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
They just looked like they are on another level at the moment. Alex, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
Birmingham before the game said they wouldn't show any fear. What do you | :04:48. | :04:50. | |
think went wrong? Whether you're overwhelmed by the opposition on the | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
occasion? I don't think so, like Rachel said, the first 15 minutes of | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
the game they looked organised and there were growing in confidence. | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
Where they've been done is they've not been able to deal with crosses, | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Lucy Bronze's Rosol Carli Lloyd's goal as well. Mark, if you were Mark | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Simpson Webber Mark Sampson, what would you do? They haven't got a | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
neat field position. They have to decide how we get out of the half, | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
whether its direct balls, or some balls over the top, and Brazil and | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Ayisi, when they have the chance to run down the sides have done OK | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
outputs and crosses in but while the game is in front of Man City they'll | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
be quite comfortable. Let's look at the first goal. Lucy Bronze seems to | :05:36. | :05:39. | |
have a habit of scoring quite a few goals for a defender. They made it | :05:40. | :05:44. | |
easy from the goalkeeper perspective, we are seeing where the | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
ball, when the ball is kicked, the Birmingham defenders are seven yards | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
out and it gives no room for the keeper to get it. Take nothing away | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
from Lucy Bronze's run, she runs all the way from outside the 18 to get | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
across Kerys Harrop at the front rows and it's a fantastic set piece | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
and well executed in the end. It goes down to Lucy Bronze's mentality | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
because you can work on set pieces all week in training but you have to | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
have the determination to want to get across your player and the | :06:11. | :06:20. | |
determination she's shown to finish it. What's your view, Mark? And I | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
agree, set pieces can make the difference. Sometimes you have to | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
hold up your hands, great delivery, great header. Where executed, same | :06:26. | :06:30. | |
as the third goal. They couldn't cope with those deliveries into the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
box. Let's look at the second goal, Izzy Christiansen, a beautiful | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
finish. It was, it's the desire from Lucy Bronze in the first one to get | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
on the ball and as Mark said, they don't do themselves any favours, | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
Birmingham, playing the game in their own defensive third and it's a | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
slip-up, an error from them. City regained possession, there's still | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
plenty to do to end up in a goal but Izzy was unmarked. The composure she | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
showed, the ball pops up in front of her. It's pretty special. We are | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
mentioning Lucy Bronze a lot but she's had a fantastic path. The | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
thing I'm impressed with Lucy Bronze here is in past games her picking | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
out a person when she gets in crosses hasn't been good, but I'm so | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
glad to see Lucy Bronze pick her head up and kick Izzy Christiansen | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
out for that goal. So many players in your squad, a good match to be | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
watching today? Yes, absolutely, it's great for Izzy, she watches the | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
play, takes her eyes off the ball and arrives at the right time to | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
give herself an excellent finishing opportunity. I agree, Bronze, the | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
last thing you want to do with bronzes give her a chance to go on | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
the front foot and win the ball. Kerys will potentially play the ball | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
over the top of her run the game is | :07:46. | :08:00. | |
different. The third goal, Carli Lloyd has scored in many finals, but | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
was the goalkeeper at fault? You are bobbing Wembley is a good place for | :08:04. | :08:05. | |
her. Who would have bet against getting her head on this? A | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
beautiful ball. A lovely swinging ball. From that distance, to pick | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
out that area, Berger will be disappointed but there's no | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
pressure, no defenders but up and challenge Steph Houghton and the | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
World Player of the Year, Carli Lloyd. She loves a stage like this, | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Carli, she'll be delighted to get a goal. Another goal! No doubt. We saw | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
a Birmingham team chat up the touchline. What do you think would | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
have been said? It's a real tough moment because the first big game | :08:42. | :08:49. | |
for Marc is a senior manager. They've consolidated, they stayed in | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
the game. When it went three, all others in the studio were thinking | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
this could be four, five, six, so they've got to half-time, only make | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
it three. Cause Man City some problems and in big games, when you | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
score one, maybe it brings two once the game is very different. Two | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
years ago Notts County Ladies appeared in the first women's FA Cup | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
final to be played here but last month just two days before the start | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
of the new league season, they folded, leaving their players, | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
including England and Scotland internationals, looking for new | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
clubs, just weeks before the European Championships. Eilidh | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
Barbour has been talking to one of them. | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
You never know what's around the corner and that couldn't be more | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
true for 2015 FA Cup finalist Leanne Crichton. Looking forward to her WSL | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
Spring Series in the lead up to her first-ever major tournament with | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Scotland, it all suddenly changed, with shock news from club side Notts | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
County. I think it's been a roller-coaster of emotions, | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
literally within hours we went through preparing for a game on the | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
Sunday looking to training, and that seemed to be it. It was just the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
end. The reality of leaving a team-mate and your friends, it's | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
been hard. It caught everybody off-guard and me personally, I think | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
the PFA in particular were fantastic. If it hadn't been for | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
them, a lot of players would have really struggled to know what to do. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
The FA, it's been a learning curve for them as well. Maybe they didn't | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
expect it to happen, in WSL one and maybe it's something of a future I'd | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
like to think it would never happen again. A lot of teams are probably | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
week by week struggling. Apart from the bigger names and the ones that | :10:38. | :10:51. | |
have a lot of financial support, that's always the problem. There | :10:52. | :10:53. | |
weren't that many clubs in a position to take on players because | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
budgets were so tight. You've come back up to Scotland. How did that | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
come about? Do you feel lucky to have had this option? Guys will say | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
to you they had contacts pretty much straightaway, they let me know I'd | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
be more than welcome to come home. The hardest part for me is just | :11:09. | :11:12. | |
waiting until my time to train our game. I feel like I'm sitting | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
looking at the clock every hour, thinking I want to be on the pitch | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
again. We are still up, training in the early morning and a lot of that | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
is preparation towards the euros and the girls that have been lucky | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
enough to receive the funding will be relieved from their day jobs just | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
now. For your image team-mates at Notts County, it must be vitally | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
important that you've got football between now and the summer. Yes, | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
everybody wants to play. It's nice to see most of us have got teams now | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
and look to build between now and July and hopefully put ourselves in | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
good stead. The first game against England, it must be something you're | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
looking forward to? It's super exciting. Scotland have waited a | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
long time to get to those finals and will certainly enjoy it, knowing | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
people in the side and having friends it will be a nice | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
experience. Devastating situation for everybody at Notts County and | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
for the players who were at Notts County, I should say, the England | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
squad, three of them have clubs, Laura Bassett hasn't. How disruptive | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
is that for you and the players? First and foremost it is | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
disappointing situation. Somebody at the club should be disappointed | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
themselves in terms of how they've handled it, allowing it to get to | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
that point. The players have been incredible, not just the England | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
players but every player at the football club. Their professionalism | :12:35. | :12:37. | |
and determination to get back on the bandwagon and start playing again. | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
We are quite relaxed about it. I've spoken to all the girls involved, | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
whether England players or centrally contracted, or Rachel who's been | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
involved for the last six months, all are relaxed between now and the | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
start of June when we get together. We are relaxed about where they'll | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
be and they'll make sure they turn up in June. The good thing is the FA | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
gave them special dispensation to go to other clubs, but it's also a | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
matter of settling in. Of course, and it's a short space of time. It's | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
a very unique season this year. If it was a season where this situation | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
happened in August and it's happened in June, it would be a real | :13:13. | :13:29. | |
problem for but look at the climate in terms of the number of games, we | :13:30. | :13:34. | |
are relaxed about where the players need to be and they'll get there. It | :13:35. | :13:36. | |
was announced today before the Spring Series started. Looking at | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
the positives, how our preparations going for the euros? We are excited. | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
We're going to be a tournament to win it. We will do our homework on | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
our opponents. Lightly and said, it will be a tough game against | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
Scotland, for them as well as others. -- like Leon said. If we can | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
get through the group we are in a great position to go a long way. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Alex, how much are you looking forward to that match? Straightaway | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
the excitement and looking forward to that game, it was always meant to | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
happen, as soon as Scotland qualified and the England Scotland | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
game was on the cards. Major for Scotland two. Huge. Five live and | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
five live sports extra will have live commentary on all the games in | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
2017, starting with a crucial match between England and Scotland on July | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
the 19th. A busy weekend of football here on the BBC, includes Match Of | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
The Day 2 two extra on BBC Two at 12:15pm tomorrow, Match Of The Day 2 | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
tomorrow night includes highlights of three Sunday fixtures in the | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Premier League, including the big relegation battle between Crystal | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
Palace and Hull City. There's a special Match Of The Day on Monday, | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
with highlights of the Premier League champions Chelsea against | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Watford. The FA People's cup this year saw hundreds of entrants from | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
girls and women's five-a-side teams including She Can she Play. A prime | :14:55. | :15:02. | |
example of how anybody of any age and ability can start playing | :15:03. | :15:03. | |
football. Well done. Inside and outside with | :15:04. | :15:18. | |
your left foot. Well done, Nicky. We are just a group of mums that wanted | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
to come along with their daughters and play football. We made friends | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
and learned some skills and now we are playing in the tournament | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
together. You are going to go over to the sports hall. | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
It's showing young girls that there should be no barriers to sport, what | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
greater role models than us? To see action from the People's Cup | :15:40. | :15:51. | |
and maybe enter a team for next year go to the BBC Get Inspired website. | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
Here at half-time in the 2017 women's FA Cup final Manchester City | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
lead Birmingham City 3-0. When Birmingham City lifted the Cup in | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
2012 by beating Chelsea in a penalty shoot-out the scorer of the winning | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
spot kick and player of the match was Karen Carney. She's been | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
watching the first half. Yeah, that was a great day for Birmingham. It's | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
been more difficult this afternoon. Is there any way back? My heart | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
wants to say yes but my head says it's going to be very hard for | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
Birmingham to get back into the game. City have been dominant and | :16:25. | :16:27. | |
Birmingham struggled with the crosses. It's going to be hard. City | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
still have a strong bench to come on. It's going to be hard, my heart | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
wants to say yes. The likes of Duggan warming up behind us. In | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
terms of Birmingham's bench, is there changes before the second half | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
to try to make a difference? Definitely he needs to change | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
something perhaps up front, maybe push White higher up. Manchester | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
City's back line hasn't been tested, it's been too easy for them at | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
times. Maybe bring Wellings on. Need to get them further up and get a | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
goal in the first 15 minutes to give them confidence. It's been hard, | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
scoring hasn't been their strength the last couple of seasons, | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
hopefully an early goal will help them. Ellen White has loads of | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
experience, how much responsibility now lies on her to bring the younger | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
players through this difficult second half? She's going to have to | :17:25. | :17:30. | |
take it on her shoulders and carry them through. Her experience is key, | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
the youngsters might not know how to deal with it being 3-0 down at | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
half-time, she's going to have to step up as well as the other senior | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
players, and the goalkeeper is experienced as well. It's going to | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
be a big 15-minute push, they need to get a goal and make it quick and | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
early. If you were in the dressing room, I am sure the Manchester City | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
dressing room would be the best one to be in right now, it's a big | :17:55. | :17:57. | |
second half for them, as well, if they concede a goal early on it | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
could be very different. It could be. The first 15 minutes is key. So | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
far Manchester City are dominant and in control. You don't really see | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
them giving this trophy up at the moment. They're in... We will see | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
how it goes. The teams are coming out now. Thank you, Karen. | :18:16. | :18:23. | |
Mark, what do you do from here, if you are Birmingham City, do you shut | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
up shop, try not to concede more goals or go for it? You do the | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
latter. It's a cup final, it's a one-off, might be the only time you | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
get there. Wouldn't surprise me if a change of shape to give Manchester | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
City something different to think about. I agree with Karen, get the | :18:39. | :18:50. | |
ball forward quicker. At least make sfef and Megan, defend high balls. | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
We need to play, Birmingham City need to play their game higher up | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
the pitch and that will give them a chance. 3-0 at half-time. Let's get | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
back to our commentary team, Jonathan Pearce and Sue Smith. | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
Thank you very much. Can't see any signs of any substitutions at | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
half-time. A little huddle for Birmingham. What | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
would you do? Mark said they may change the shape. Unless you get | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
wingbacks forward in that formation in the opposition third it's a | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
negative situation if they're pushed back all the time, they're | :19:28. | :19:30. | |
redundant. You are right. They were pretty much playing a back five for | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
the majority of the first half. You probably have to do that. The fact | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
when they did get forward Manchester City really exploited that width, if | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
you like, the channel balls. They got that pace to do so. I think the | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
units were too spread out. The centre forwards were very disjointed | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
from the midfield and vice versa and Manchester City can play in those | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
pockets of space. Off we go in the second half. Birmingham kicking from | :19:58. | :20:03. | |
right-to-left in the darker blue. When they won the 2012 final against | :20:04. | :20:11. | |
Chelsea from a spot kick, it would be a miracle if we get to that | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
today. It would be an astounding comeback. It's important they get | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
players higher. As we heard Mark say at half-time, they spent the almost | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
the tir 45 minutes encamped in their own half. They have to get bodies | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
higher up the pitch. Another free kick now. There is the | :20:31. | :20:36. | |
coach of Birmingham City with a real job to do now. | :20:37. | :20:43. | |
Can he inspire a real comeback, Marc Skinner? He says he hasn't stopped | :20:44. | :20:52. | |
smiling since he got the job. He was grimacing at times in the first | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
half. Down the line looking for Ayisi. | :20:56. | :21:12. | |
Notice plea she didn't follow her pass and get forward in support and | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
they've got again bodies sluggishly forward. They're there now. Look at | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
the number of blue shirts back for Manchester City. Still Ayisi who has | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
worked very hard for Birmingham. A cross into the box from Williams. | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
Campbell. White. Frustrations growing. Did you notice that as she | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
passed the ball forward, Williams, down to Ayisi, she just watched. She | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
should progress. You are right. She's wary of getting forward and | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
overcommitting. That's what Birmingham need to do to get back | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
into the game. White made the running and Carter was following up. | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
When they have extra options they're going to cause Manchester City a | :21:55. | :21:55. | |
problem. Another great touch. Pressure by | :21:56. | :22:12. | |
Lucy Bronze. Carli Lloyd. Dispossessed by Carter. Back again. | :22:13. | :22:41. | |
Overconfident with the pass. Here is Parris for Manchester stif. | :22:42. | :22:54. | |
-- Manchester City. Now Paige Williams. Angled forward | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
for Brazil. Seems Birmingham City in the second | :22:59. | :23:08. | |
half have pushed White really advanced. She was slightly deeper | :23:09. | :23:14. | |
than the two wider forwards, but she's right up top now. There she | :23:15. | :23:22. | |
is. Back it comes to Mayling. No great | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
conviction in there, was there? That's the problem. I think it's | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
good that White is further forward. She will get hold of the ball and | :23:32. | :23:35. | |
she needs players to play off, somebody to pass the ball to. When | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
she got it she was very isolated but yeah, there needs to be conviction | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
with the ball in and also the runners into the box. They still | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
look a little scared. Incredible tweet this morning, she was out for | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
a jog on the morning of the Cup final. Like yourself. Indeed myself, | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
a fitness fanatic as you know, Sue! Now Williams. | :23:58. | :24:10. | |
Not sure I would be jogging before an FA Cup final. No. | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
Not done her any harm. A remarkable character. | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
Another reason she's come to England is to get more games. They don't | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
play that many club games in America. This sort of standard. Yes, | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
the international teams together for long periods of the year. Ayisi. | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
Dispossessed by Bronze. Looking for a free kick that didn't come. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Christiansen has been tidy throughout the game. | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
Jill Scott always provides an outball. Lucy Bronze to Parris. Good | :24:47. | :24:55. | |
football by Manchester City. Parris delayed the pass in. A good | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
run, though. Very good run. Forces a corner. Really good run by | :25:02. | :25:11. | |
Parris. She wants to go forward and have a go at defenders. Gets the | :25:12. | :25:20. | |
team a corner. Lawley will take it. At Birmingham until last December. A | :25:21. | :25:29. | |
Kidderminster girl, actually. She's got Jill Scott in at the near post | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
and Parris just behind and four runners coming in. Sfef Houghton. | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
It was off target but it was a freeish header. | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
That was another good quality header from Houghton. Had a run on White. | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
White was standing. Couldn't get it on target. | :25:53. | :26:11. | |
Parris has switched flanks. A problem for Lawley. Lawley is | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
hobbling. May have a problem here. Christiansen couldn't get beyond | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
Hegerberg. A decent turn. | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
Had a falling out with a coach in Germany. Has a good pedigree. | :26:35. | :26:42. | |
This is Williams. Cut out by Lucy Bronze. | :26:43. | :26:45. | |
Look at the forward line of Birmingham. When they go forward | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
they are all in straight line, they need to break that line up a little | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
bit more. One comes short, one go long. The same sort of runs means | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
there's no option for midfield. Manchester City well in command. | :27:02. | :27:16. | |
If you have just joined us Lucy Bronze put them ahead. Then Izzy | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
Christiansen with a splendid well worked goal. Then Carli Lloyd made | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
it three on 32 minutes. They had brilliant crossing from the left | :27:29. | :27:35. | |
wing. There is Lloyd. Harrop under pressure. Back to the | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
goalkeeper. What a career Carli Lloyd has had. | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
Five goals in the World Cup finals. Fastest hat-trick in the history of | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
a World Cup final. Double Olympic gold winner. Scored | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
in two Olympic finals. Again Mannion tries to play. A free | :27:56. | :28:08. | |
kick here for Manchester City. Not the greatest of starts to the | :28:09. | :28:27. | |
new spring series, Manchester City. Won the last two. Drew the first | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
game of the campaign against Birmingham. A shortened season. | :28:32. | :28:38. | |
Parris! Tried to bend the shot. Got a touch on it. It could have been | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
four. It really could. Good break from Stokes. What a ball that is. | :28:45. | :28:50. | |
What a run from Parris. She was trying to bend it into the far | :28:51. | :28:55. | |
corner. The right thing to do. Good hand from Berger. | :28:56. | :29:10. | |
Lawley with it. Four could make it mission | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
impossible. A little tussle in there but away by Berger. Came a long way | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
to get that. Walsh, has had an excellent game. An | :29:18. | :29:30. | |
appeal over there by Sargeant. Carli Lloyd. | :29:31. | :29:37. | |
Always comfortable on the ball. Cruises on the ball. She can be | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
feisty, Darley -- Carli Lloyd. Are they going to think of a change, | :29:45. | :30:04. | |
Manchester City? This is Carter. Good interception by Campbell -- by | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
Campbell who has done well. Just too far ahead of Mayling who looked | :30:10. | :30:14. | |
leaden-footed there. A slump to the shoulder, a tired look about one or | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
two Birmingham players. A showpiece occasion. 3-0 down at the break and | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
here is a substitution. It's going to be Toni Duggan comes | :30:23. | :30:35. | |
on. It's going to be Lawley who departs, picked up that injury | :30:36. | :30:40. | |
moments ago. I think Birmingham won't want to see Toni Duggan coming | :30:41. | :30:45. | |
on the field. Not only is she a great player, just coming in off the | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
back of a hat-trick against Bristol, but she's got a point to prove. She | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
will have wanted to start in this game. She will be really | :30:53. | :31:00. | |
disappointed not to have. The Ghanaian born England under 23, | :31:01. | :31:08. | |
Ayisi. They've just been too good for them, Manchester City, really in | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
every area. Mannion, under pressure, just got away with it. | :31:13. | :31:26. | |
In towards Lloyd. She got a cloud for her troubles. She knew it was | :31:27. | :31:38. | |
coming. Jess Carter wins it back. Typically abrasive style. In towards | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
Ayisi. This is promising for Birmingham City. Bronze got back to | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
Ayisi, just held onto it too long. Again, that's a weary looking Sarah | :31:45. | :32:06. | |
Mayling. They will think about more two substitutions. | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
Toni Duggan comes from the same part of the world as you do, and she a | :32:14. | :32:21. | |
spiky, wholehearted full of life character, who would have been | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
absolutely shell-shocked by the decision not to pick her up the | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
start. Of course, you want to play in big games like this and Toni | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
Duggan is another big game player. She will have been really | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
disappointed. As a player, if you score three goals, you expect | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
probably to start in the next game. She will definitely be wanting to | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
show just what she's about. Two words to describe Toni Duggan... | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
INAUDIBLE . That's good. A terrible mistake by | :32:47. | :32:55. | |
Ann-Katrin Berger, got away with it. I think we were all chatty from that | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
part of the world. You're telling me. I thought I'd say it before you | :32:59. | :33:03. | |
did. This is going to be the first time | :33:04. | :33:52. | |
we've seen a long throw from Megan Campbell, and if you haven't seen | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
her, just get ready for this. This is one of the longest throws in | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
world football. She can reach the far post in normal ground. Don't | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
forget, this is Wembley, but in normal grounds, she absolutely | :34:09. | :34:16. | |
arrows them in. To the near post... You built it up there! All around | :34:17. | :34:21. | |
us, however many thousands there are in the crowd, there was a big groan! | :34:22. | :34:27. | |
We expect so much from her now, after the two throws that she did | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
against Reading, set up both goals. A couple of them in a couple of | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
minutes, came off the bench. It changed the whole game. I don't know | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
if I've the build up a throw as much as that, ever! Dear oh dear. They | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
are normally very good! Normally the longest throw-in world football. | :34:55. | :35:01. | |
Here we have Manchester City in total control. They look to set | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
Parris alight. Harrop doesn't know the meaning of | :35:06. | :35:17. | |
the word surrender. She would play steadfastly all the way through. A | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
youth team member at Birmingham, Kerys Harrop. Caught by Carli Lloyd. | :35:25. | :35:30. | |
I can tell you we now know how many thousands there are in here, 35,271, | :35:31. | :35:40. | |
that's record for a Women's FA Cup Final. It's a great policy the FA | :35:41. | :35:48. | |
have for this. Kids go free. Remember that for this time next | :35:49. | :35:49. | |
year. Let's remind people, Sue, it's | :35:50. | :36:01. | |
important if you do have a chance to support your local WSL team, it is a | :36:02. | :36:07. | |
good afternoon or evening out, watching football, if you are into | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
women's football, if you are young player. Alan -- here's Ellen White. | :36:12. | :36:20. | |
She's tested Bardsley. Work to do for the Manchester City goalkeeper | :36:21. | :36:24. | |
at last. It's exactly what Birmingham need to do, see the | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
opportunity and take it quickly. Karen Bardsley didn't collect that, | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
that second attempt, she was in there but that's what they need to | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
do, they need to do it quickly. They've been taking too many touches | :36:36. | :36:42. | |
up until that point. Two or three of them have frozen out there, really. | :36:43. | :36:48. | |
Birmingham City players. Birmingham City about to make a substitution. | :36:49. | :36:56. | |
Charlie Wellings come on for them. 19 this week. A tall striker, and | :36:57. | :37:10. | |
England under 17. INAUDIBLE | :37:11. | :37:52. | |
I'm impressed by their willingness to change a bit of their style is | :37:53. | :37:53. | |
season. Steph Houghton was there, she'll | :37:54. | :38:06. | |
keep it in. I can't remember Steph Houghton making a mistake. I don't | :38:07. | :38:14. | |
think she has. She's just a player. Know exactly what you are going to | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
get with her. Always does it very well. | :38:18. | :38:25. | |
INAUDIBLE Here comes Wellings, a tall player. | :38:26. | :38:43. | |
I'm quite surprised, Freda Ayisi always offers an option when they go | :38:44. | :39:03. | |
forward. She hasn't really had the right ball to her. I think Wellings | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
will come on and she'll work hard, again, she'll Harry the defence but | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
they just need that final pass to just be better. Give them an | :39:14. | :39:21. | |
opportunity. In them much programme today, Kerys Harrop had an article. | :39:22. | :39:27. | |
She led us through the individual players in the squad, and she says | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
of Charlie Wellings, she's probably Birmingham's best striker of the | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
ball, a goal-scorer when she gets on the right position. We will wait and | :39:36. | :39:42. | |
see, the youngster towards her position. | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
Have they got enough time? 25 minutes to go. | :39:48. | :40:15. | |
What about the formation? It's something Marc Skinner is working | :40:16. | :40:21. | |
on, playing with the back three at the back and it's worked for her | :40:22. | :40:24. | |
mental this point. Manchester City have had too much for them in this | :40:25. | :40:30. | |
game. -- it has worked for them, until this point. Manchester City | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
have had too much quality. Looking forward to the World Cup | :40:34. | :40:45. | |
finals. Fancy that one? It would be quite | :40:46. | :40:57. | |
nice. INAUDIBLE | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
Steph Houghton. She'll still be there, I imagine, 30 or 31 by then. | :41:03. | :41:15. | |
The year rose to come of course, this summer. -- the euros to come of | :41:16. | :41:22. | |
course, this summer. Won by Wellings. Lucy Bronze got | :41:23. | :41:30. | |
back to her. They beat Chelsea, so to win the | :41:31. | :41:51. | |
2017 FA Cup final they'd have had to beat the three powerhouses, Chelsea, | :41:52. | :41:58. | |
Manchester City, they have, short thus far in the final. -- they have | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
come up short thus far in the final. More into the game now, Birmingham. | :42:04. | :42:19. | |
You have to put that in the context of Manchester City taking their foot | :42:20. | :42:20. | |
off the gas pedal. Birmingham have to go for it, don't | :42:21. | :42:37. | |
they? It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and you are 3-0 down. | :42:38. | :42:45. | |
Just saying they build up again, he is pleased with their team, he's | :42:46. | :42:48. | |
asked them to be braver in possession. It hasn't really come | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
off today. The keeper saw it coming, rushed out and did well. Kept it at | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
3-0. She read that situation really well. Got off her line quickly | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
because Nikita Parris was just in there. Lloyd, taken down by Mannion. | :43:04. | :43:11. | |
She is saying she was kicked on the ground. | :43:12. | :43:18. | |
A New Jersey girl, Carli Lloyd. Played for the South Jersey | :43:19. | :43:29. | |
Banshees, the New Jersey Wildcats in her time. Such a committed player. | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
Clearly a foul. Carli Lloyd just touched the ball past her. I don't | :43:36. | :43:40. | |
think there was any kick afterwards though. Steph Houghton, in the | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
interview we played earlier, did you say to her she'd scored some free | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
kicks in her time. She has. Was that an omen? May be. You know your game, | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
don't you? How many times did you play for England? You can't say | :44:00. | :44:06. | |
anything after those throw-in is! She can do that though. Help! Was a | :44:07. | :44:14. | |
goal that was. Brilliant. That was two, Christiansen. Great delivery in | :44:15. | :44:20. | |
43, Carli Lloyd. It was a blistering 14 minute first-half spell. | :44:21. | :44:41. | |
A lovely ball in behind, Toni Duggan, the first touch was a little | :44:42. | :44:47. | |
bit heavy and it allowed Berger to come and make the save. She's had a | :44:48. | :44:51. | |
good gave. She's had a good game apart from the third goal. It's | :44:52. | :44:56. | |
probably the only mistake she's made. Toni Duggan, the touch she | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
made gave Berger up in June -- and opportunities come out and make the | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
save. A great break again for Manchester City. Is going to be a | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
change here for Manchester City, Nikita Parris going off. Georgia | :45:12. | :45:21. | |
Stanway is coming on. She's an 18-year-old, just turned 18 at the | :45:22. | :45:27. | |
start of the year. Wide forward, the right-hand side. In comes the corner | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
kicking towards Houghton it goes wide. | :45:31. | :45:37. | |
Another quality player with lots of potential. When you are tiring as a | :45:38. | :45:46. | |
team and they're bringing on fresh legs, it can make things happen and | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
score goals. It's the last thing you want to see. Look at the stats | :45:52. | :45:59. | |
there. 12 goal attempts by Manchester City against three. | :46:00. | :46:15. | |
Carli Lloyd wants it mrae in behind. Beautiful weight on the pass. Well, | :46:16. | :46:23. | |
she acknowledges the precision of the pass played into her. It was a | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
good set-up. Good play from Duggan and good movement again. They just | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
know where each other are going to run. That makes such a difference. | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
Birmingham at times have looked disjointed but Manchester City when | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
they go forward are so fluid. Lucy Bronze has got away from her marker. | :46:45. | :46:47. | |
It's beyond her, though. In came Houghton. | :46:48. | :46:53. | |
Might have been a little push in there. | :46:54. | :47:02. | |
I think Lucy Bronze made the initial run to the near post. It was | :47:03. | :47:13. | |
Houghton they were aiming for. White has her arms around Steph. They're | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
good mates so that's a battle with the two of them. | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
Good football by Birmingham. A chance here now. | :47:27. | :47:34. | |
Oh! They got a goal! She's come off the bench. The best | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
striker of the ball. She gets a goal for Birmingham City. She's done well | :47:42. | :47:49. | |
since she came on. Set the ball up for players. Run into channels they | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
needed. Got forward. Good strike there with her left foot to beat | :47:55. | :48:01. | |
Bardsley. Right into the corner. Could this give Birmingham City a | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
lift? 64 minutes on the clock when she came on. Within nine minutes she | :48:08. | :48:15. | |
scored for Birmingham City. She looked really lively, hasn't she? | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
She has. Just been that more aggressive in the final third since | :48:23. | :48:24. | |
she came on. Have broken the chance of a clean | :48:25. | :48:41. | |
sheet. If they get another, with a little over quarter of an hour to | :48:42. | :48:45. | |
go, it would make things very interesting. | :48:46. | :48:57. | |
8th corner of the game for Manchester City. Scott goes near | :48:58. | :49:17. | |
post. Christiansen will stand in with the goalkeeper. Runs from deep | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
positions. It's a good claim by Berger. | :49:22. | :49:27. | |
Looks for the quick release. Out it comes here now to Jess | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
Carter. Another Birmingham... Oh the touch was horrible but she's gone | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
for the challenge by Stokes. Having a real go now! | :49:37. | :49:46. | |
Brazil. Should be Karen Bardsley. Got hit by | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
Ellen White. England colleagues. She said she was going for the ball. | :49:51. | :50:01. | |
You can see she has her eyes on the ball all the way through there. | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
Definite foul. This was a well taken goal by | :50:05. | :50:17. | |
Charlie Wellings. A confident strike. This is better from | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
Birmingham. They've took until this point to really give it a good go | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
and test the Manchester City back line. The Ellen White effort and one | :50:29. | :50:49. | |
from Wellings. They've made a go of it. A little error there. | :50:50. | :50:56. | |
Can they get it out wide? Stamped away by Bronze. Back to Hegerberg. | :50:57. | :51:04. | |
Carter. Another good ball. She was trying to | :51:05. | :51:11. | |
get it out to Williams. Manchester City have tired a little | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
bit. Williams there. She came from an offside position. | :51:17. | :51:26. | |
Another substitution here. It's going to be Abbie McManus, she | :51:27. | :51:44. | |
will replace Campbell, I would think. Can't see them taking | :51:45. | :51:46. | |
Houghton off. Up in the air. It's won in the air | :51:47. | :51:53. | |
by Harrop. Here is Carter. | :51:54. | :52:10. | |
Dispossessed by Christiansen. What a final she has had. | :52:11. | :52:18. | |
Let's see who goes off. It is Megan Campbell. | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
She was preferred at the start. We are not going to see... On comes | :52:27. | :52:39. | |
McManus to replace her. I am pleased she has game time, McManus. She | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
deserves it. Every time I watch her play she's consistent. Oh! The | :52:44. | :52:49. | |
goalkeeper and... Manchester City player went for | :52:50. | :52:57. | |
that. She's OK. You could see both of them | :52:58. | :53:04. | |
going for the ball. That's a real collision. Both are OK. | :53:05. | :53:15. | |
They're just about to announce the atakenedance at the stadium. Great | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
reaction to it, as well. -- attendance. | :53:21. | :53:30. | |
They're bigging themselves up, and why not? | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
So good to see the attendances getting better each year and it | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
shows how much the women's game is growing and developing and people | :53:40. | :53:50. | |
now want to watch the game. Here is White having a go at it now, | :53:51. | :53:51. | |
Birmingham City. Lloyd battling back. | :53:52. | :54:07. | |
Now Christiansen. Out to Duggan. Duggan can switch it. She finds Jill | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
Scott. Could get another one. Scott! It's a lovely goal. To wrap it up | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
for Manchester City. One of the most popular girls in the game. | :54:17. | :54:24. | |
Ten minutes to go. Jill Scott gets a goal in the FA Cup final. Set up by | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
Toni Duggan. Finished brilliantly. Birmingham City 1, mark City 4. The | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
result now is well beyond doubt. -- Manchester City. Manchester City | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
league winners, continental winners and now FA Cup. It was good from | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
Duggan initially to pick out Jill Scott. But that's a lovely finish. | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
Quick feet initially. Then right into the top corner. Birmingham City | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
were just getting themselves back into the game. That puts it totally | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
beyond them now. That's the problem, when you commit | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
players forward to get back into the game that can happen on a quick | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
counterattack. A better cross in. White! | :55:08. | :55:23. | |
Might have seen it a little late. Brazil was in front. She dummied it | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
so it came through to White. Not sure how much she would have seen of | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
the ball before it came to her foot. A good delivery. She's leaning back | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
as she strikes the ball. It was always going to go over. | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
Don't know if she slipped at the vital moment. | :55:43. | :56:22. | |
Lucy Bronze. She will get a free kick. Rudimentary tackle from | :56:23. | :56:40. | |
Harrop. A few bruises. Manchester City Chloe Peplow, off | :56:41. | :57:23. | |
goes Andrine Hegerberg, not really been her game. | :57:24. | :57:42. | |
The keeper sort of clawed. A corner kick is given. | :57:43. | :57:49. | |
Good pressure in there by the captain. | :57:50. | :58:01. | |
Limping a little bit. Duggan will take it again. There is | :58:02. | :58:10. | |
a little signal. Carli Lloyd to make the run. | :58:11. | :58:19. | |
Away by Carter. Six-and-a-half minutes to go. | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
Good tackle that time by Harrop. It's been some year for them. Now a | :58:24. | :59:05. | |
big step up, Champions League. Lyon stopped them, as I was saying | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
earlier. They're in the competition again. | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
Starting in October. Or the autumn anyway. | :59:16. | :59:17. | |
Stokes to Lloyd. What do you think they will take | :59:18. | :59:57. | |
away as a sweet memory from an otherwise sour afternoon for them, | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
Birmingham City, Sue? It's probably just the experience of obviously | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
playing at Wembley in front of a big crowd and I think the fact that | :00:06. | :00:08. | |
they've really improved in this second half. Without a doubt, these | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
players will have learned from that experience. They'll want to come | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
here again and hopefully pick up that winning trophy, rather than the | :00:15. | :00:23. | |
losing one, unfortunately. Mark Sampson was pointing out they're a | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
young team. Lucy Bronze might have been fouled there by Parris. | :00:29. | :00:37. | |
Marc Skinner has only just taken charge, so he's still in his | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
philosophy on style -- he's instilling his loss Leanne style on | :00:45. | :00:51. | |
the players, which can take a while. Much higher in the second half, | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
Mayling, pushing Danny Stokes back. The quality and delivery from | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
Manchester City in the first class, we haven't seen that in the second. | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
-- in the first half, we haven't seen that in the second. Stabbed | :01:09. | :01:19. | |
away. Mannion got it out. Sargeant, it was. They have bodies forward. | :01:20. | :01:27. | |
Have they got enough legs? No, they haven't. | :01:28. | :01:36. | |
Who would be your player of the match, Sue? For Manchester City, | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
there have been a lot of players that have really stood out in this | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
game. You look at both full-backs, midfield, obviously Carli Lloyd. | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
I've gone with Keira Walsh and I think for me, she's just, she | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
quietly goes about her business. She breaks the play very well, protects | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
the back four and in possession, she's quality. I've gone with | :02:01. | :02:03. | |
probably somebody that not everybody would pick, but I don't know what | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
you think about that. I think it's a great choice. You and I agreeing, | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
goodness me! I know! Make a note of it, everyone. It never happens, to | :02:14. | :02:26. | |
be honest. Anyway, you say tomato, I say tomato. Use a lettuce leaves | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
language, I say triple burger. Paige Williams goes off. On comes | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Abbey-Leigh Stringer. 21-year-old midfielder. She's made | :02:34. | :02:45. | |
the route across from Aston Villa to Birmingham City. Came on in the | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
semifinal with about a quarter of an hour to go. She's come through the | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
Young England route. A couple of minutes to go. That was | :02:53. | :03:04. | |
a bomb of a challenge. A tired tackle. There's been a yellow card. | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
A bit of a shame, this late on in an FA Cup final. It was an almost | :03:16. | :03:26. | |
exhausted psych into a challenge. You are right, she's worked so hard | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
this game, Jess Carter. Another very good player. Lots and lots of | :03:31. | :03:40. | |
potential. It is late. It wasn't an exhausted sag into a challenge, it | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
was a terrible tackle. It was, when you see the replay. It was hefty, | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
wasn't it? Still battling. It's a great attitude, when your team is | :03:53. | :04:00. | |
behind in the Cup Final, to want it as much as she was. | :04:01. | :04:08. | |
Stretched a little bit too much in there. This is a great run. For | :04:09. | :04:22. | |
Manchester City. He is Carli Lloyd. Stanway wanted it back again, into | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
Duggan. Flag up. Your Man of the Match Joyce got a | :04:25. | :04:55. | |
great ovation in the stadium. They must have agreed with us. Three | :04:56. | :05:05. | |
minutes of stoppage time to play at the end of the 2017 final. Having a | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
bit of a slip. There will be a few tears a bit | :05:09. | :05:36. | |
later on, I would think. Definitely. They follow Alan every game, home | :05:37. | :05:43. | |
and away. Lloyd here has got it beyond Mannion. It is Duggan. The | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
referee has blown, I think. Well, it's a yellow card to bring out a | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
card for that of friends there, it could have been worse. Was there | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
cover in the middle? I'd like to see it again. You could see that Carli | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
Lloyd was waiting towards goal. You can see here, she just catches | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Mannion, breaking towards goal. There was just cover, but was fouled | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
just outside the area? Yes, it was. And there was cover. Right decision | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
from the referee. She's had a good game, hasn't she? She has, very | :06:24. | :06:29. | |
good. Weldon Rebecca Welch. And the assistant referees, also the fourth | :06:30. | :06:37. | |
official. -- well done, Rebecca Welch. Solid goalkeeping, good | :06:38. | :06:50. | |
technique. But in behind it. -- got in behind it. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
Mayling still working hard, but she's given that away. It looked | :06:55. | :07:30. | |
like a tired prod of the pass. Stokes into Lloyd, she's done really | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
well there. Stanway. Chased and chased well by Harrop, but she still | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
gets the shot off. A lovely bit of setup play by Carli Lloyd. | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
Outstanding bit of play. She could see Georgia Stanway and it was just | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
a lovely ball, right into her path. I actually think Georgia Stanway | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
could have played the ball back to Carli Lloyd. She made a run just | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
round the outside. Manchester City having won the league, having won | :07:58. | :08:03. | |
the Continental Cup, have won the 20 17th FA Cup. Manchester City on the | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
day were simply too good. Lucy Bronze put them ahead after 18 | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
minutes with a header, setting up Christiansen for brilliant second, | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
seven minutes later, and Carli Lloyd rose at the far post, three up on 32 | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
minutes. They were not going to be beaten. Substitute Wellings pulled | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
one back. Ellen White worked her socks off. We have the world's best | :08:30. | :08:36. | |
player on your team, when you have seven of England's European | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
champions in your team, it's always going to be difficult for the rivals | :08:40. | :08:45. | |
and Birmingham City found it too difficult on the day. Manchester | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
City are worthy winners. Yes, the best team won. Manchester City were | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
solid in defence. When they went forward they were dangerous. They | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
were clinical in front of goal. Birmingham City got themselves back | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
into the game slightly in the second half, but the strongest team won in | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
this game. Birmingham have done excellent to get here, but just | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
couldn't cope with Manchester City's quality on the day. They are growing | :09:09. | :09:16. | |
force in European football they've won the FA Cup. This is the one they | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
lacked, this is the one they wanted, this is the one they have got. | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Scenes of celebration, for the England squat Watt squad players. | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
What do you think Ellen White will make of the afternoon? You know her | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
so well. She worked so hard. She was constantly trying to get her team | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
back into the game. It's a difficult one to take. She will learn from | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
this and she'll come back and I think she knows that Birmingham City | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
are team that is developing and improving all the time, but she will | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
be disappointed, she will be absolutely gutted. A terrific goal | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
by Christiansen, wasn't it? Outstanding. She can make those late | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
runs into the box and it's having the quality to be able to finish | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
that off and that that's exactly what she did. Third FA Cup win in | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the career of Steph Houghton, and embrace for the coach, Nick Cushing. | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
He has a team here now that over the next two years can go on and press | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
the likes of Lyon and the teams who have dominated European football in | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
the women's game over the last few years. Carli Lloyd, outstanding, at | :10:22. | :10:27. | |
moments, a player of her quality to be in English football is a terrific | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
thing. What a terrific performance by Keira Walsh today, Sue's player | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
of the match. She's with Eilidh Barbour. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
You've added the FA Cup to your list of trophies at this club. How | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
special does this one feel? It feels unbelievable. It's what is | :10:45. | :10:47. | |
considered the biggest trophy in England and it's the only one we've | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
not won so far. It's a great feeling to take the trophy back to | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
Manchester. It was the perfect first half, you didn't seem fazed as a | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
team by the occasion. Were you able to take any of it in at all? I think | :10:59. | :11:07. | |
the three goals came quite fast, so other team we were pleased to get | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
the three goals. Get the game sorted and it was a good feeling for us. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
The captain Steph joins us. You were favourites, there was an expectation | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
upon your shoulders to win today. How proud I use that you've been | :11:17. | :11:20. | |
able to do it? Obviously being favourites puts you under a bit of | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
pressure but this is what the team is about, big players who play on | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
big occasions and it was showing the first half performance. We were | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
unbelievable. Credit to this girl, she is young and she makes our team | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
tick. You hold all three domestic trophies at Manchester City. It's | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
been a dominant display domestically. How much further does | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
this team go? Why do you build towards? We have to make sure we | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
retain these titles and we have to take the Champions League and we | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
have had a taste of the semifinals, but we want to keep going until we | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
win it. Weldon today, Akira, you are the player of the match and we ask | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
Junior and Elliott to present the SSE player of the match. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
STUDIO: Manchester City absolutely living up | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
to their invincible title they earned last season in the league. | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
They were unbeaten. Why are they so good? They've just got depth across | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
the whole squad. You look at the players they've brought on, Toni | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
Duggan, Georgia Stanway, both England internationals, and they've | :12:28. | :12:29. | |
got world-class players in their starting XI. I think that's really | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
that's the crux of it. They've only been around in the WSL as a team | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
since 2014, and they've achieved so much, the domestic trouble. Alex, | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
your thoughts? It's not just one player, if Lucy Bronze is not | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
scoring you have Carli Lloyd, you have Jill, who had a quiet game | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
today, popping up with a fantastic goal. There are so many elements to | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
the Man City team that they continued to grow. Eilidh Barbour is | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
with the manager, Nick Cushing. It was the piece of the jigsaw that | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
was missing. You are FA Cup winners, it sounds pretty good, doesn't it? | :13:08. | :13:10. | |
It was the game after winning the double, the aim was the FA Cup. You | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
know what, we've been good in every round but I thought today we were | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
exceptional. With the schedule we've had and the games and travel we've | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
had, to come and win 4-1 is exceptional. It's the first FA Cup | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
final for the club and a first visit to Wembley, but they didn't seem | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
phased by the occasion. How much mental preparation did you have to | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
do today? I didn't have to do a lot. We challenge the players every day | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
in training. We try to create something harder than the games in | :13:42. | :13:43. | |
Manchester. I trust the players. They are big game players. They | :13:44. | :13:47. | |
showed that last year, going undefeated. Today, they had to find | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
their experiences of big games and they've done it, and exceptional | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
performance. There's an expectation, it can be difficult to play to your | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
potential. What does it say about these goals they were able to go out | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
and do what they can do? I think the expectation that they put themselves | :14:03. | :14:09. | |
is greater than any expectation from the outside. I got a big expectation | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
on them every day to be the best they can be and if you are the best | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
version of yourself and your team is improving, you win trophies. The | :14:17. | :14:18. | |
first trophy we won after winning the double would be the most | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
satisfying because it reinforces you are the dominant team in England. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
How important is that for you? Continuing to develop Manchester | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
City. You've developed a hugely talented squad, bringing in players | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
like Carles Gil -- Charlie Wyke. How important is it to continue the | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
journey? We had Georgia Stanway on the pitch, McManus came on, it's not | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
just the Carli Lloyd and Steph Houghton that contribute, it's the | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
young players who we work hard every day and Keira Walsh's performance as | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
a 19-year-old player who has never played international football on a | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
senior stage was exceptional today. Weldon, Nick, go and enjoy it. Thank | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
you. STUDIO: | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Very well deserved. Manchester City have had a tough schedule, playing | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
in Europe, the Champions League semifinal against Lyon and the | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
Spring Series and they've managed to do this. | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
They were good today, strong, never in doubt they weren't going to win | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
the game. What he has done a great job with, yes, they have excellent | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
players but they work hard, well organised defensively and have a | :15:30. | :15:32. | |
set-piece. All the qualities top teams have. Congratulations to Nick, | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
as well. He has done a good job with the team. They've grown the team | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
carefully and slowly and methodically and now they're a well | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
oiled machine. He managed to sign the world's best player. Carli Lloyd | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
is pitchside. You came here to win a trophy, to play well and you have | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
certainly done that today. Well done. Yeah, it was a fantastic team | :15:53. | :15:56. | |
performance. You know, this group's been trying to get this trophy for | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
quite sometime. I just have kind of come in in the last month or so and | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
helped push that along. Total team effort. Players on the pitch, | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
players off the pitch. Fantastic, feels good to come back to Wembley | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
and win again. And special Wembley memories, this has been a good place | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
for you. Very good, hopefully I am back at some point again. Tremendous | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
stadium. Pitch is fantastic. You know, a quality win to get that | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
today. Like you say, this team has been building for a number of years | :16:30. | :16:32. | |
before you have come in. What has most impressed you about the squad | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
and the group of players, about the set-up here as you have built | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
towards this Cup win? I think character. You know, we tied | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Birmingham recently in the spring series and to come out, fight, | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
hungry, shows the character. We have had a tough battle against Lyon in | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
the Champions League but we fought to get the second leg out in front | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
of us. It's a great group of girls. I really enjoyed being here, the | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
organisation is fantastic. They've got all the support they need. I | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
have enjoyed my time here. I will let you enjoy lifting the trophy. | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
Well done. Thank you. STUDIO: I am sure she will enjoy | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
those celebrations very much indeed. Rachel, what could Birmingham have | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
done differently? I don't know. I like to say what Nick said about | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
each individual maximising their potential, being the best version of | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
themselves. I don't think Birmingham could have done much more | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
individually. As a team, they needed to play the game further up the | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
pitch. They put themselves under pressure early on by playing out the | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
back, that's their style, that's how they like to build up their play. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
But you put them under pressure and from that point it gave confidence | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
to Manchester City to push further forward, keep their back line up and | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
from that point Birmingham, certainly in the first hour of the | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
game really, just couldn't get out of their half and Manchester City | :17:51. | :17:53. | |
were pretty much pinning them back. We saw some bright sparks, some | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
energy from Birmingham City in the second half after they got that | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
consolation goal. We did, when they got the goal we were jumping for joy | :18:02. | :18:04. | |
in the studio and thought they would push on from that. Look, they're a | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
young team. They're not used to playing an occasion like this, they | :18:09. | :18:11. | |
need to remember this feeling, it will hurt now. But let this be a | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
driving factor, feel it and have hunger to get back here next year. | :18:17. | :18:19. | |
We shouldn't forget Birmingham City have won the FA Cup final before. | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
Absolutely. You have to give credit to Mark and the team. We talk about | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
the run to get here, beat the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea. They earned | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
a right to be here. They'll learn lessons. These big games, small | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
details make a difference. City got the details right. Executed | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
brilliant set-pieces, perfect pressing strategy and made it | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
difficult for Birmingham for the majority of the game. They said they | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
weren't going to show fear, they were coming out to win it. How do | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
they pick themselves up now going forward? Yeah, it's tough. I have | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
been there twice in terms of losing FA Cup finals. It's hard. There are | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
some games to play and the great thing with football is there always | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
is the next game. I am sure they'll put this behind them. Like Alex | :19:03. | :19:05. | |
said, remember it and focus on the next one. Let's hand back to our | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
commentary team, Jonathan Pearce and Sue for the trophy presentation. | :19:12. | :19:19. | |
Thank you very much. The fact that Hegerberg and White both looked so | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
desperately disappointed, is a good sign for Birmingham City, that shows | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
they will be hungry for more. This is a group in development. And a | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
club very much on the progressive route, getting good players in and | :19:33. | :19:37. | |
as long as they get the backing of the club they'll come again. Here | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
comes the trophy. The FA Cup. | :19:43. | :19:49. | |
Up will come Manchester City, winner of today's final. | :19:50. | :20:01. | |
?240,000 will be distributed throughout this Sean's competition. | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
70,000 up from last season, which is good. That will out to clubs around | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
the country. -- this season's competition. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
The honour party prepare to give out the trophy. | :20:16. | :20:22. | |
And up they come. A terrific afternoon for Manchester | :20:23. | :20:30. | |
City. Lawley on the winning side against | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
her former club. She played very well. Picked up an | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
injury late on. Karen Bardsley behind her. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
They'll go on to complete the spring series with Manchester City. Had a | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
dramatic start and will be expected to win that. The other players will | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
go out with England to Holland in the European Championships. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
Biggest crowd ever for a women's FA Cup final. 35271. | :21:08. | :21:14. | |
Sunshine, good goals, and entertaining FA Cup final. | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
This is a curious route up towards the honour party. Since the stadium | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
was revamped and rebuilt. Lucy Bronze in there. Scored the | :21:28. | :21:39. | |
first goal of the game. There is the coach. Completed the | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
treble. Done everything he could. Now Nick Cushing. Made it back in | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
time for the birth of his third child after they won the | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
continental. There he is. | :22:03. | :22:09. | |
Along the line they go. There is the trophy. That's the one they want. | :22:10. | :22:20. | |
Jennifer Beattie, Scottish international, didn't get on, 26 | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
years of age today. Georgia Stanway who got on late on. | :22:27. | :22:34. | |
Karen Bardsley. There is a good young player, as well, the Dutch | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
youngster, Tessel Middag in the squad. Substitute goalkeeper, as | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
well, Hourihan. Painful moment this for White. Twice on the winning side | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
in a Cup final, twice on the losing side. Duggan, smiles for her at the | :22:52. | :22:58. | |
end. She looked pretty disconsolate yesterday when she found out she | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
wasn't starting. She played well when she came on. Jill Scott at the | :23:04. | :23:06. | |
end completed the scoring. Carli Lloyd. Well, she has had her hands | :23:07. | :23:14. | |
on the World Cup and the Olympic gold. Now the FA Cup in England. | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
Steph Houghton reaches out the hands. You don't want to let the lid | :23:21. | :23:22. | |
drop off. Up it goes! | :23:23. | :23:34. | |
The 2017 SSE Women's FA Cup. The ticker tape sprinkles down. Golden | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
and shimmering. The celebrations and this Manchester City side. The | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
golden girls of English football. They've completed the domestic | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
treble inside 12 months. A wonderful achievement. A wonderful | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
performance. Beating Birmingham City on the day by 4-1. | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
STUDIO: You can see how much it means to all the players. I expect | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
celebrations will continue well into tomorrow. Alex, you were here this | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
time last year. I remember watching, it looked like it was the happiest | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
day of your life. I am getting emotional now watching them, it's | :24:11. | :24:12. | |
bringing back memories. It really is. As a kid, you dream of playing | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
at Wembley. To walk the Wembley stairs and lift a trophy, those | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
players will remember this for the rest of their lives. Yeah, wish I | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
could say the same. You played... No, I am not taking anything away, I | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
have won the FA Cup and it was fantastic with Everton in 2010. It | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
wasn't a Wembley, that's the brilliant thing of the progression | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
of women's football. It's been at Wembley, where it should be. Whether | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
you are male or female you want to play at Wembley, it's the iconic | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
place for this country. The opportunity for these girls to do | :24:48. | :24:50. | |
that and to celebrate, it really will last long in their memories. | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
More than 35,000 people here inside Wembley Stadium. Record crowds. What | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
does that mean for the story of women's football in this country? | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
It's fantastic. You have to pay credit to all the guys behind the | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
scenes who work so hard to get people to come. Our fans who turned | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
out, but I was chatting to Alex earlier, that final with Doncaster, | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
there was less than 5,000 there, that was four years ago. So we are | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
making great progress and every year it gets better. Looking at a picture | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
of Toni Duggan looking very happy. Can't imagine she will have been | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
happy she didn't start. That's the life of a football, you have to deal | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
with those situations. Some players show it more than other players. As | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
an experienced player you learn to deal with how to manage your face as | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
it were, have a professional outlook so you can only impact positively on | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
the team. It's a competition for places, you are playing in the | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
biggest day of your footballing career. Suddenly you are not | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
starting, that's going to hurt for any player. She's come on the pitch | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
and did a great job when she was on the pitch and that's all you can | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
ask. We need to talk about Lucy Bronze who was on fire. Someone says | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
if Lucy Bronze wins a medal will she become Lucy Gold? No, but we can | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
show you the opening goal. I like that. Lucy was massively influential | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
in the whole game. As we come to know her as a recognisable sort of | :26:14. | :26:18. | |
defensive, attacking defender, she was phenomenal today. Her goal is | :26:19. | :26:21. | |
nothing more than we expect. I spoke to Lucy before the game, because we | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
only had Kelly Smith ever on the shortlist for Fifa World Player of | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
the Year, I said to her this is your stage and you are the next player | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
who I believe can get on that list and have that recognition as an | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
England player. OK. We can look at these goals. | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
Yeah, we talked about it at half-time. The Birmingham defending | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
line should be higher. Gives more space for Berger to collect this. | :26:48. | :26:52. | |
Doesn't. It's a great run from Lucy Bronze. Her whole all-round play, | :26:53. | :26:59. | |
she creates the second goal by picking up possession and turning it | :27:00. | :27:01. | |
over. Birmingham weren't very clever in giving them back possession in | :27:02. | :27:05. | |
their own half. Mark, you were saying they don't get enough credit | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
for set-pieces, that's what they really excel at and probably won the | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
game on. It's a big part of the big games. If you look back at all the | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
games and the World Cup 2015, America scored the first two from | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
set-pieces. They blew Japan away. It was the corners. Manchester City so | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
efficient and clever, have big players on the pitch. Good delivery. | :27:26. | :27:29. | |
In big games you need those details to go right for you. Jill Scott will | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
be pleased she managed to get on the score sheet. We were talking that | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
Jill was having a quiet game. She was going about her job but a quiet | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
game normally for Jill. To get a goal like that and an exquisite | :27:43. | :27:45. | |
finish, she will be delighted. Birmingham got their consolation, of | :27:46. | :27:49. | |
course. Yeah, what a strike that was for Charlie Wellings off the bench | :27:50. | :27:53. | |
as a youngster, coming and playing at Wembley. That must be a strike | :27:54. | :28:00. | |
she can only have dreamt of. Her left foot, non-dominant foot. And | :28:01. | :28:02. | |
beat Bardsley who was a by-stander for much of the game. Moving | :28:03. | :28:05. | |
forward, what do you think Birmingham will take from this? They | :28:06. | :28:09. | |
need to remember it will hurt now, but remember the journey they've | :28:10. | :28:12. | |
been on to get here, knocking Arsenal out, my team, knocking | :28:13. | :28:15. | |
Chelsea out, they deserve to be here today. Remember this feeling but | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
want to be back here next year. Mark? A lot of lessons frshgs a | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
football point of view you learn the big games that you have to play | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
what's in front of you, they got caught with that. They stuck to the | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
plan, which is honest. But it's the wrong plan. The ability to adapt to | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
what's in front of you is a big lesson to learn. It's the same for | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
the manager, it was his first time, FA Cup final. It's phenomenal for | :28:40. | :28:43. | |
them. Incredible achievement for Manchester City. Congratulations. | :28:44. | :28:48. | |
Thank you to Alex and Mark. Good luck atUre 2017 and of course, | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
Rachel, who you will hear on the radio throughout. Manchester City | :28:53. | :28:57. | |
women hold the WSL title, the continental Cup and the FA Cup. It's | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
a tremendous treble. Thank you for watching. Goodbye. | :29:01. | :29:04. |