Arsenal V Tottenham: Women’s Super League – Live

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Derby play has arrived successful nan Women’s Super League and WSL2. Not one, not two, but six section rivalries will beryllium reignited arsenic nan divisions effort to capitalise connected nan men’s world break.

Is it clever to schedule truthful galore of these clashes connected nan aforesaid play though, and particularly staging 3 top-flight ones connected nan aforesaid afternoon? Everton big Liverpool, Manchester United invited Manchester City and Arsenal entertain Tottenham connected Saturday, each wrong nan abstraction of six hours. The reply will astir apt dishonesty successful nan attendances.

Manchester City request 5 points to clinch nan title aft hammering Manchester United 3-0 astatine Old Trafford.

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Arsenal and Spurs are separated by only 1 spot successful nan WSL, but they stay worlds apart. Arsenal are European champions; Spurs, arsenic their awesome young head Martin Ho said yesterday, are a “bit of a sleeping elephantine successful women’s football”.

At slightest they are starting to stir: they person made awesome strides nether Ho and, aft finishing 11th past season, person go nan champion squad beneath nan solid ceiling. At nan infinitesimal they are successful a convention of their ain – six points down fourth-placed Arsenal, having played 2 games more, 9 up of sixth-placed Everton.

Arsenal commencement nan crippled successful fourth, extracurricular nan Champions League places, but they are good placed to suffice for adjacent year’s competition, either by finishing successful nan apical 3 of nan WSL aliases retaining nan Champions League. They will return a 3-1 lead to Stamford Bridge for nan quarter-final 2nd limb connected Wednesday.

The WSL leaders Manchester City are complete nan horizon, but if Arsenal triumph coming they will move into second, supra Manchester United and Chelsea, and they person games successful manus connected both.

Kick disconnected 5.30pm.