Key events
Elsewhere in the Women’s FA Cup
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Liverpool 0-2 Leicester City
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Brighton 0-4 Manchester United
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Everton 0-1 Chelsea (still being played)
Journey to the quarter-finals
Tottenham were introduced to this season’s FA Cup in the fourth round where they came up against Championship side Sheffield United. Spurs were given quite the fright after going two goals down, but a brace from Bethany England fired them level before Rosella Ayane scored a 96th-minute winner.
Robert Vilahamn’s side went on to face Charlton in the fifth round and won 1-0 thanks to Kit Graham’s 76th-minute strike.
Meanwhile, Manchester City cruised to a 4-0 win over Durham in the fourth round thanks to goals from Laura Coombs, Jill Roord and Mary Fowler. They went on to face 14-time champions Arsenal in the next round and clinched a 1-0 win at Meadow Park to book a spot in the quarter-finals.
These two sides have already met three times this season, with City getting the better of Spurs on each occasion.
Back in November Gareth Taylor’s side stormed to a 7-0 victory over Tottenham in Manchester. They made it two WSL wins out of two in January at Brisbane Road and booked a spot in the Continental Cup semi-finals with a 1-0 win last month.
Will Robert Vilahamn’s side finally find a way past their WSL rivals today?
Feel free to email in with any score predictions, match reactions, comments, questions and all that jazz. I’ll be here with you all afternoon!
Team news
Tottenham starting XI: Rebecca Spencer; Ashleigh Neville, Amy James-Turner, Molly Bartrip, Amanda Nildén; Olga Ahtinen, Eveliina Summanen, Grace Clinton; Celin Bizet Ildhusøy, Jessica Naz, Martha Thomas. Substitutes: Barbora Votíková, Charlotte Grant, Luana Bühler, Ramona Petzelberger, Matilda Vinberg, Kit Graham, Rosella Ayane, Wang Shuang, Bethany England.
Manchester City starting XI: Khiara Keating, Laia Aleixandri, Alex Greenwood, Kerstin Casparij, Leila Ouahabi; Filippa Angeldahl, Yui Hasegawa, Jess Park; Mary Fowler, Lauren Hemp, Khadija Shaw. Substitutes: Sandy MacIver, Demi Stokes, Steph Houghton, Laura Coombs, Chloe Kelly, Esme Morgan, Ruby Mace, Alanna Kennedy.
Your team to face Spurs in the @AdobeWFACup quarter-final! 💪
XI | Keating, Aleixandri, Greenwood (C), Fowler, Hemp, Angeldahl, Ouahabi, Park, Casparij, Shaw, Hasegawa
SUBS | MacIver, Stokes, Houghton, Coombs, Kelly, Morgan, Mace, Kennedy#ManCity | @etihad pic.twitter.com/CZvrunjVm2
— Man City Women (@ManCityWomen) March 10, 2024
Preamble
Hello hello and welcome to coverage of this afternoon’s FA Cup quarter-final clash between Tottenham and Manchester City.
Wembley is well and truly in sight at this stage of the competition, with both sides eyeing that iconic trophy.
Spurs approach this game having failed to defeat Gareth Taylor’s side in two-and-a-half years. In fact, over their last seven meetings Manchester City have won by a total margin of 20 goals to one. But that streak could be ended today with a place in the FA Cup final four at stake.
Kick off is at 3pm GMT. Don’t miss it!