Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City (aet): Women’s FA Cup semi-final – as it happened | Women’s FA Cup
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We’ll sign off with Khadija Shawthe match-winner and best player of the season, speaking to TNT:
“I trust myself, I know what I can do and when the ball popped up one thing was on my mind and it was put it on target.”
“It’s been a mad week. Lots ups and downs but I don’t care. I enjoy my time at Man City and I always want to do the best that I can to get club back to where it needs to go. Obviously we won the league and now we are one step closer to the FA Cup.”
Here’s Suzanne Wrack’s report from Stamford Bridge.
Khadija Shaw’s smile is broad and she finds the energy to jog on and celebrate. The champions are on their way to Wembley. Hannah Hampton’s desolation says it all for Chelsea. Sam Kerr tells the referee that her first-half gaol should have been allowed.
Full-time: Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City (aet)
Khadija Shaw was the match-winner, her extra time goal completing a comeback that looked beyond City when Sam Kerr scored for Chelsea. The double is on, and City will face Brighton in the final after an epic day of semis.
120+4 min: Bronze has to come out to clear the ball as City gain territory. Time is ticking on and on.
120+2 min: Chelsea try to engineer the space to shoot, and eventually Walsh fires wide and over. City will make a double change. On come Murphy and Coombs. Shaw goes off, and looks as if she wouldn’t be able to take a penalty if they were to happen.
120 min: Four minutes will be added on, and Beney’s injury will add further time to that.
119 min: Nusken couldn’t believe that didn’t go in. There’s a break in play as Beney is down hurt. She will be replaced.
118 min: Beever-Jones turns and shoots, and City hurry the ball away. Shaw receives it and has no energy left. At the other end, Keating makes a brilliant, brilliant save from Nusken’s header. It was dropping in but is clawed away. Redemption for her part in that Sam Kerr goal.
117 min: Fowler, back and defending, hoiks the ball away. It’s getting to that stage of the game where anywhere will do.
115 min: Not long now, and Bronze steps forward. Sam Kerr and Lauren James look nonplussed to have both been subbed off.
113 min: Cuthbert fires wide and also pulls up with cramp. Rose got in the way, and she too has cramp.
112 min: Alex Greenwood is cramping up and will probably have to come off. Chelsea have used up all their subs.
111 min: Chelsea want a penalty when Beever-Jones is baulked by Hemp, they have to settle for a corner. Baltimore takes and it swings off the post.
109 min: Niamh Charles almost gets Hannah Hampton in trouble with Shaw on the scene. The ball is cleared, just about.
108 min: Rose makes a hurried clearance as Chelsea build up some pressure, only for Carpenter, on the overlap, to be caught offside.
106 min: We go again. Can City see this out? Or do they go for more?
That’s the end of the first half of extra time. Only a minute extra played. Chelsea have 15 minutes to save themselves.
105 min: It’s been a classic game just as Brighton winning at Liverpool turned out to be.
Goal! Chelsea 2-3 Manchester City (Shaw, 103)
Funjino and Fowler set up a chance for Shaw, she misses the target BUT within seconds, Shaw climbs highest to head in a Hemp cross. Another comeback, and the double is back ON!
102 min: With Shaw still on and Kerr now off, City the likeliest to find a winner?
100 min: Lovely pass from Fujino, fired wide by Shaw.
99 min: City change: Lohmann on for Blindkilde Brown. Both teams very different to how they kicked off. Hemp is at left-back for City; Bronze is centre-back for Chelsea.
98 min: It’s been nothing like as furious a contest as the first half. Another Chelsea sub as Buchanan goes off, and Kaptein comes on.
97 min: Lucy Btonze has taken a knock after a foul from Fujino, for which the City player is booked.
96 min: Penalty to Chelsea? Did Keating foul Beever-Jones? No, says the referee, and awards the free-kick to Chelsea.
94 min: City keeper Keating gladly collects the ball after a scramble in her penalty box.
93 min: Both teams received lengthy team talks from their respective coaches. It’s restarted in bitty fashion.
91 min: Back we go at the Bridge. Beever-Jones, a late arrival in the 90, is first to take the fight to City.
Full-time: Chelsea 2-2 Manchester City
What a comeback, Mary Fowler’s goal pegging back Chelsea and Bunny Shaw completing the job. We have extra time and very possibly penalties to come.
90+9 min: City force a corner, can this be the moment?
90+8 min: A glimmer of a chance for Chelsea but Rytting Kaneryd is very slow to react when the ball is there to be hit.
90+7 min: Sam Kerr does not look too happy at being subbed off.
90+6 min: Shaw drops deep, Bronze clinging to her but unable to get the ball.
90+4 min: It’s turned into an epic. Will there be a winner before extra time? There, there will be tired legs.
90+3 min: The strength Shaw showed in holding off Bronze and Buchanan was something else. Sam Kerr has been subbed off. She will play no part in the drama to follow.
Goal! Chelsea 2-2 Manchester City (Shaw, 90+2)
The equaliser! Shaw turns and shoots, and Hampton can’t keep it out. Shaw has scored against the club she is set to join.
90 min: Hemp gives the ball away but City soon win it back. They will surely get another chance; there’s seven minutes of time added on to be played. The announcement yields boos from the home fans.
88 min: City have a spring in their step, Chelsea need to reset. Lucy Bronze, on as a sub, will aid the rearguard effort.
87 min: Could we be on for another comeback after that Brighton win against Liverpool?
Goal! Chelsea 2-1 Manchester City (Fowler, 86)
City play hurry-up offence and that change makes instant dividends as Fowler, with her first touch, smashes it where Hannah Hampton can’t reach it.
85 min: City change, off goes Ouahabi, Fowler on, an attacker for a defender, as it’s desperation stakes. There will be a longish injury time after Lauren Heap’s hooter took that blow.
84 min: Sonia Bompastor is asking her players to close this one out. Her tactical plan is going well so far.
83 min: Chelsea on a go-slow, Hannah Hampton taking her time on the ball before they launch into the attack with Sam Kerr whizzing down the flank. Then Lauren James tries from long range. There’s a smile after it whips wide.
82 min: Fujino, after Shaw creates the chance, fires wide for City.
80 min: Lauren James is booked for a hefty tackle. Chelsea changes: Thompson off, Rytting Kaneryd on.
79 min: Chelsea putting the squeeze on City, who have found it very difficult to create the chances they did towards the end of the first half.
77 min: City’s double bid is fading fast, though there’s still much to celebrate from their season. Chelsea are on course for their own double, though must beat Brighton in the final.
75 min: Shaw turns and spins, and fires over. It’s not been her day so far and the day is almost done.
73 min: Sam Kerr holds the ball up, turns and is knocked flat by City’s Rose.
72 min: Chelsea remain in full control and continue to push for more.
71 min: Thompson, who has been quieter than in the first half, goes on one of her runs, and smashes just wide. So many decent attackers in this Chelsea team.
69 min: Kerr has the ball in the net for the third time, heading in a Cuthbert ball. Offside, and this time the decision is in no doubt.
