Key events
Mark Harris misses a golden chance to equalise for Oxford at the death! He bobbles one over the bar from point-blank range. Five minutes minimum will be added.
Marseille 1-3 Auxerre FT.
Lecce 1-1 Empoli is a full time score.
You’re impatient for a European update, aren’t you? OK then:
Union Berlin 0-0 Freiburg FT
Latest second-half scores:
Lecce 1-1 Empoli
Rayo Vallecano 0-3 Las Palmas
Marseille 1-3 Auxerre
Full time: Manchester City Women 4-0 Tottenham Women
Four-nomenal.
A hat-trick for Shaw and a comfortable win for the WSL league leaders. Second-placed Chelsea are in action on Sunday, against Liverpool. Brighton remain third, on 11 points, after tonight’s defeat in north London.
A clean sheet for Manuela Zinsberger, the Arsenal Women goalkeeper.
A hat-trick for Manchester City’s Khadija Shaw. Goal machine.
Goal! Watford 1-0 Oxford (Bayo 54)
A swift break down the right wing and Bayo tucks away the opener at the second time of asking: Oxford’s Jamie Cumming makes a good save from the first effort from Vakoun Bayo, but the Ivorian finds the net at the second attempt.
Barnsley 2-0 Rotherham is a full-time score in League One. Stephen Humphrys added the second goal for the hosts four minutes from time.
Goal! Manchester City Women 4-0 Tottenham Women (Shaw 67)
A Shaw hat-trick! City have swiftly put this game to bed and they will indeed be four points clear at the top of the table this evening.
Goal! Manchester City Women 3-0 Tottenham Women (Roord 66)
Game over.
Full-time! Arsenal Women 5-0 Brighton Women
A speedy three-goal burst early in the game settled that one. Arsenal move up to fourth, seven points behind Manchester City …
Brighton’s Masaka is now being carried off on a stretcher. Let’s hope she is relatively OK and the injury is not too serious. It seems it may have been a shoulder injury she sustained when falling after a challenge in the Arsenal penalty area.
Unfortunately, what looks a serious injury to Aisha Masaka is holding things up at the Emirates. There are 99 mins on the clock now but it looks like the Brighton substitute is badly hurt and there are lots of medical staff crowded around. She had just come off the bench.
The half-time highlights reel from Vicarage Road is a bit thin. A chance here and there but not much of note.
Goal! Arsenal Women 5-0 Brighton Women (Russo 90+5)
The England forward strokes a confident penalty into the corner and that should complete an impressive success – Arsenal’s first home win in the WSL this season.
Penalty for Arsenal!
Blackstenius wins a penalty for the Gunners in stoppage time! She was breaking to the byline and was hauled back.
Half time: Watford 0-0 Oxford
Six minutes to be added at the Emirates.
Nearly five for Arsenal Women after excellent work by Stina Blackstenius down the right wing. Russo pokes an attempted finish over the bar.
Nearly half time at Vicarage Road. It’s still goalless and it doesn’t look to be a great game.
WSL latest:
Arsenal 4-0 Brighton
Manchester City 2-0 Tottenham
Watford … 0 … Oxford … 0.
After 35 minutes in tonight’s Championship clash.
Union Berlin 0-0 Freiburg, Lecce 0-1 Empoli, Rayo Vallecano 0-1 Las Palmas are the other scores from around Europe to add to the aforementioned Marseille 0-3 Auxerre.
Goal! Arsenal Women 4-0 Brighton Women (Hurtig 75)
It was already game over. It’s even more game over-er now.
Looks like it might have been an own goal after a corner is swung over from the Arsenal right. But Hurtig gets the plaudits from the announcer on the PA system.
Auxerre lead Marseille 3-0 away from home.
Kiko Seike hits the bar for Brighton against Arsenal! Nearly a lifeline for the visitors in the WSL.
Beth Mead has a crack at goal.
Goal! Manchester City Women 2-0 Tottenham Women (Shaw 15)
City now lead 2-0 and Shaw has scored an incredible 11 goals in five matches against Spurs.
With “The Arsenal” going 3-0 up so quickly in the first half, it’s understandable that the energy has gone out of this match at the Emirates.
Jonathan Russell has put Barnsley 1-0 up against Rotherham in League One, with 32 minutes on the clock.
Ruud van Nistelrooy would like to keep his job under Rúben Amorim at Manchester United. Here he is speaking on that very subject:
City Women still lead 1-0.
Arsenal Women’s players are back on the pitch, waiting for Brighton.
Watford v Oxford has just kicked off at Vicarage Road.
I highly recommend Lee Calvert’s witty and knowledgeable MBM-ing efforts over on our rugby channel.
He’s got Ireland v New Zealand right here:
Let’s go, lads. Watford keeping it simple on the website formerly known as Twitter.
Arty shot from Estadio de Vallecas, where Rayo Vallecano meet Las Palmas in La Liga.
Scenes in Berlin.
Brighton Women have managed to prise the floodgates shut, for now, and it’s still 3-0 Arsenal.
Barnsley v Rotherham has kicked off, while Watford v Oxford will commence in a mere 18 minutes or so.
Goal! Manchester City Women 1-0 Tottenham Women (Shaw 1)
Khadija Shaw has wasted no time in putting City a goal up at the Etihad.
Now Arsenal hit the post! Was it Foord or Mead who hit it from distance with the keeper, Bagley, off her line? Either way it was nearly four.
Arsenal Women 3-0 Brighton Women (Maanum 24)
What a goal that is, by the way.
Arsenal advance down the left, Frida Maanum has space to line up a shot from the corner of the penalty area: she curls an imperious dipping shot into the far top corner. This could be a cricket score.
Goal! Arsenal Women 2-0 Brighton Women (Foord 22)
Caitlin Foord tucks in a simple finish after smooth progress down the right wing by Arsenal.
Watford v Oxford United teams
Watford: Bachmann, Ebosele, Porteous, Pollock, Andrews, Morris, Baah, Louza, Kayembe, Chakvetadze, Bayo. Substitutes: Bond, Ince, Vata, Sema, Dwomoh, Tikvic, Jebbison, Doumbia, Larouci.
Oxford United: Cumming, Long, Kioso, Moore, Brown, Vaulks, McEachran, Goodrham, Rodrigues, Leigh, Scarlett. Substitutes: Ingram, Harris, Ebiowei, El Mizouni, Dale, ter Avest, Goodwin, Ferdinan, Golding.
Goal! Arsenal Women 1-0 Brighton Women (Mead 13)
Tremendous finish by Beth Mead, who takes the ball on the right hand side of the area, cuts back and inside and bends a pinpoint curling shot, low and left-footed into the far corner.
Watford v Oxford teams, via the magic of Twitter:
Suzanne Wrack
When the Carabao Cup quarter-final draw took place on 30 October, it set in motion a series of unfortunate events. Both Arsenal’s and Tottenham’s men’s teams were drawn at home, against Crystal Palace and Manchester United respectively. A week later, the dates of the fixtures were released, with Arsenal scheduled to host Palace on Wednesday 18 December and Tottenham playing the following evening, policing issues dictating that the north London sides cannot play at home on the same night.
The problem? Arsenal’s women were scheduled to play Bayern Munich at the Emirates Stadium in the Champions League on 18 December. Could the north London men’s fixtures swap dates? No, because Arsenal would have only one rest day before meeting Palace again on 21 December in the league. Could Arsenal host Palace on Tuesday 17 December? No, because Palace are at Brighton on Sunday 15 December, posing a similar problem. Meanwhile, Uefa regulations require the stadium to be available for the visiting team’s training and media obligations before Champions League fixtures. Could the Carabao Cup quarter-final be held in a different week? No, because between the end of the international break and Christmas Day, Arsenal play a midweek game every week. Can the Champions League fixture shift? No, because it must be played concurrently with Vålerenga v Juventus given it is the final round of group games.
Arsenal are getting a bit of joy down their left wing early doors. Alessia Russo just surged into the area moments after another good move.
Arsenal Women have got a double header against Juventus incoming: they face the Bianconeri away from home next Tuesday, then at home on Thursday 21 November, with the North London derby at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium coming on the Saturday in between (16 November).
It’s Remembrance Day this weekend. There is a rendition of the Last Post at the Emirates, with the teams lined up on either side of the centre circle, to commemorate the contribution of those who served in the two World Wars and later conflicts.
The Arsenal and Brighton teams are out for tonight’s 7pm KO in the WSL.
Manchester City Women v Tottenham Women (7.30pm)
Manchester City Women: Keating, Casparij, Kennedy, Greenwood, Ouahabi, Park, Hasegawa, Roord, Fujino, Shaw, Hemp. Substitutes: Yamashita, Coombs, Fowler, Kelly, Blindkilde, Prior, Thomas, Murphy, O’Carroll.
Tottenham Hotspur Women: Spencer, Morris, Bartrip, Hunt, Buhler, Neville, England, Summanen, Spence, Vinberg, Naz. Substitutes: Heeps, Grant, Turner, Ahtinen, Csiki, Raso, Wang, Thomas, Gunning-Williams.
Somewhat uninspiring scenes across tonight’s continental European fixtures, at least until you get to Ligue 1:
Union Berlin v Freiburg
Lecce v Empoli
Rayo Vallecano v Las Palmas
Marseille v Auxerre
Morton v Ayr in the Scottish Championship, to see who wins that.
Barnsley v Rotherham teams (7.15pm)
Barnsley: Killip, Durand de Gevigney, Earl, Roberts, O’Keeffe, Russell, Connell, Gent, Phillips, Keillor-Dunn, Watters. Substitutes: Smith, Pines, Lofthouse, Craig, Humphrys, Nwakali, Jalo.
Rotherham: Dawson, Rafferty, Raggett, Jules, James, Kelly, Odofin, Powell, McGuckin, Hugill, Nombe. Substitutes: Phillips, Humphreys, Bramall, MacDonald, Holmes, Tiehi, Hungbo.
Referee: Thomas Kirk (Manchester)
Arsenal Women v Brighton Women teams (7pm)
Arsenal Women: Zinsberger, Fox, Williamson, Catley, McCabe, Mead, Little, Walti, Foord, Maanum, Russo. Substitutes: Wubben-Moy, Codina, Reid, Cooney-Cross, Kuhl, Kafaji, Hurtig, Blackstenius, van Domselaar.
Brighton & Hove Albion Women: Baggaley, Thorisdottir, Bergsvand, Carabali, Kirby, Losada, Symonds, Pattinson, Haley, Parris, Seike. Substitutes: Masaka, Rayner, Olislagers, Vilamala, Poulter, McLauchlan, Loeck.