FIRST HALF
Either side confirmed their proactive intentions early within the recreation, with efforts at both finish registered earlier than we had handed the two-minute mark.
Leah Galton earned the Reds a nook along with her strike, which was dispatched to the pinnacle of Rachel Williams on the again put up. She muscled her strategy to the ball, however nodded it marginally excessive of the bar.
The tempo settled down within the quarter-hour following this early flurry, however the Reds nonetheless seemed probably the most harmful going ahead.
With Williams on the pitch, United at all times seemed a risk from corners, but it surely was Millie Turner who created United’s greatest likelihood of the half when she nodded Zelem’s supply again throughout the goalmouth. It was begging to be scrambled in, however Lucia Garcia arrived on the scene only a fraction after Spurs’ Eveliina Summanen, marginally lacking out on what would have virtually actually been a aim.
Williams was naturally occupying plenty of the eye within the penalty space from set-pieces, so Turner rose above the gang as soon as once more to satisfy the Reds’ fourth nook of the half, this time taking the chance on herself. Her header had Tottenham’s goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer rooted to the ground, however her team-mate – and former Crimson – Martha Thomas intervened on the final second to clear it off the road for the second time within the half.
The stalemate seemed to be carrying via to the interval when Ella Toone collected the ball from Lisa Naalsund on the midway line within the remaining minute of first-half stoppage time.
Our no.7 seemed up and noticed house opening as much as cost ahead, with the opposition vacating the midfield and he or she duly took the invitation. On arrival exterior the Spurs field, she easily skipped previous the sliding problem of Eveliina Summanen earlier than expertly curling an effort into the top-right nook, past the fingertips of a diving Spencer between the sticks.
The Crimson half of Wembley erupted and seconds later the referee blew the half-time whistle. Toone had struck an ideal effort on the good second.
