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90 min +2: A huge chance for Chelsea! Nusken with the ball at her feet in the box, and in space, just to the left of centre. She shoots, but Le Tissier arrives out of nowhere to block! Nothing comes from the resulting corner. That probably should have been the winner.
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90 min +1: Reiten crosses low from the left. Beever-Jones sticks out a leg in the hope of ramming home, but the presence of Le Tissier forces her to slice wide left.
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90 min: There will be four added minutes. Can either side find a heartwarming/breaking winner?
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89 min: Bjorn tugs back Toone, and itâ€s a free kick for United in Chelsea territory. Earlier in the move, Walsh had tugged back Park in the cynical style. Sheâ€s lucky not to go into the book. Then the set piece is taken … and what a waste.
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87 min: Beever-Jones spins and hits a low shot-cum-cross that Tullis-Joyce doesnâ€t really deal with. The ball breaks to Walsh on the edge of the box. Walsh attempts to thread a shot into the bottom left, past the unsettled keeper, but Tullis-Joyce makes up for her earlier error with a superb full-length stop.
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85 min: Thompson nearly latches onto a weak backpass by Janssen. Tullis-Joyce comes out quickly to smother, and ensure no shot is taken. Janssen owes her keeper one there.
Manchester United goalkeeper Phallon Tullis-Joyce (left) saves at the feet of Chelsea’s Alyssa Thompson. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 16.18 EDT
84 min: Incidentally, Kerr was given the what-for by the home crowd when she came on. Perhaps as a result of this …
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83 min: Chelsea replace Rytting Kaneryd with Reiten. Meanwhile Malard warms Tullis-Joyceâ€s hand with a snapshot from the inside-left position. This is in the balance for sure.
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82 min: Williams – who scored the winner against United in the FA Cup semi-final two seasons ago – comes on for Rolfo. That was Unitedâ€s first-ever win over Chelsea; can she score their first-ever winner against them in the WSL as well? Her a former Chelsea player, too.
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80 min: Nuskenâ€s first act is to ping a shot wide right from 25 yards.
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79 min: The weather seems to have passed through.
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78 min: Chelsea make a double change, sending on Kerr and Nusken for Macario and Cuthbert.
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77 min: Carpenter goes barrelling down the inside-right channel. She doesnâ€t really have any options, so keeps going and prepares to shoot, only to run slap-bang into Sandberg.
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76 min: Parkâ€s low cross from the right is turned out for a corner by Bjorn. Before it can be taken, Riviere is replaced by Bizet. And then the corner is turbo-blootered clear by Macario.
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75 min: A suggestion that, earlier in the move, Thompson had handled a Park flick on the edge of the Chelsea box. No penalty, and thereâ€s no VAR. It may well have been outside the area anyway.
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74 min: … but Sandberg releases the pressure with a wild shot from 25 yards. To be fair, sheâ€s got credit in the bank after her spectacular goal.
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73 min: United are enjoying the lionâ€s share of possession. Chelsea canâ€t get out.
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71 min: This is properly in the balance, and the tension at the Progress with Unity Stadium is palpable.
Manchester United’s Fridolina Rolfo (centre left) heads the ball clear under pressure from Chelsea’s Millie Bright. Photograph: Martin Rickett/PAShare
Updated at 16.06 EDT
69 min: Fine shots at either end, by the subs. Thompson cuts in from the left and whistles one straight at Tullis-Joyce. Then Rolfo bustles hard down the middle before sending Malard into space down the inside-right; Malard fizzes a daisycutter inches wide of the left-hand post.
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67 min: A throw comes in from the Chelsea right. Macario, on the right-hand corner of the box, spins and tees up Beever-Jones, whose first-time shot is deflected by Janssen. The ball loops hysterically over Tullis-Joyce, and so nearly drops back down, having travelled on an absurd parabola, into the bottom right. Just a corner, from which nothing comes. That would have been one to set to a jaunty trombone riff.
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65 min: Cuthbert dribbles elegantly down the middle before laying off to Macario on her left. Macario slips further wide for Baltimore, whose low, driven cross is hooked clear under pressure by Zigiotti Olme from Beever-Jones. Thatâ€s some fine defensive work by the busy United midfielder.
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64 min: A missive from our Tom Garry, in situ in Leigh:
Iâ€m amazed there havenâ€t been more defensive errors from players slipping on the surface here. The rain is torrential now, once again swirling sideways across the pitch. There is hardy group of fans behind the goal to my left who appear to have accepted they are going to be soaked and they are embracing the wet conditions, dancing in the storm and exchanging chants with the travelling Chelsea fans.
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Updated at 16.06 EDT
63 min: Toone bursts into the Chelsea box from the right. Sheâ€s got space and options, but her attempted cutback is no good whatsoever. A few irritated howls of anguish from the stands.
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61 min: Macario gets the better of Sandberg down the left and sends a rising diagonal shot thatâ€s clumsily parried away by Tullis-Joyce. It should be a corner, but United are the beneficiaries of a generous free kick, Macario judged to have wrestled Sandberg to the ground. Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor is booked for telling it as she sees it.
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59 min: … so having said that, Park dances in from the left and screeches a shot from the edge of the D inches over the bar. Hampton was under it, but might not necessarily have got a fingertip to it. Malard comes on for Terland.
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Updated at 15.57 EDT
58 min: Beever-Jones wins a corner down the right. The set piece nearly drops at the feet of Rytting Kaneryd, a couple of yards out, but the defence hacks clear again. All of a sudden, a second Chelsea goal feels the most likely development.
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57 min: Chelsea have moved up a gear since the introduction of Thompson. Baltimore tears down the left and wins another corner. United deal with this one as well, but only just about, Miyazawa slicing into the stand. The champions doing champion things right now.
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56 min: Walsh carves a long-range shot across Tullis-Joyce and wide of the bottom-right corner. The keeper had it covered all the way.
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54 min: Thompson is immediately into the thick of the action, barrelling down the left and winning a corner off Riviere. Nothing comes of the set piece, but thatâ€s better from Chelsea.
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53 min: Cuthbert tries to wriggle upfield, and is hauled back in the Red Roses style by Zigiotti Olme.
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52 min: Sonia Bompastor has already seen enough, and hooks Kaptein, sending on Thompson.
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51 min: Walsh struggles to clear upfield. No room for a good old-fashioned pressure-releasing blooter, with Zigiotti Olme buzzing around her. It looks like the United midfielder has nicked the ball, but the whistleâ€s gone for an incredibly soft foul. Thatâ€s a generous one for Chelsea, who havenâ€t turned up for this second half yet.
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50 min: A corner on the left leads to another on the right. From the second, Sandberg hooks infield from the right, and finds Rolfo, eight yards out. A header floats wide left. This is really good from Manchester United, though.
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49 min: … and now Rolfo has a go from distance, aiming a curler towards the same corner. This one pings off Carpenterâ€s heel and loops over Hampton, bouncing out of play for a corner off the top of the crossbar.
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48 min: Toone aims one towards the top-right corner from distance. Itâ€s just over the bar. Not sure Hampton was getting to that, had it been on target.
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47 min: It is really raining, to be fair. To use strict meteorological terminology: itâ€s Beyond Mancunian.
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United get the ball rolling for the second half. Meanwhile hereâ€s a WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Itâ€s raining in Manchester. Storm Amy giving it the big one.
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Half-time advertising break. Get on it (pts I and II)
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HALF TIME: Manchester United 1-1 Chelsea
A fair scoreline on balance. Both sides on course to stay unbeaten this season. United on track to doing that rare thing: stopping Chelsea from winning after their having taken the lead.
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45 min: There will be one additional minute to a first half thatâ€s whizzed by.
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44 min: Rytting Kaneryd drives at Sandberg down the right. She twists, turns and finally shoots. Straight at Tullis-Joyce. United have been more intricate in attack, Chelsea more direct. Both have come close in their own way to adding to their goal tally.
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42 min: Rytting Kaneryd makes good down the right and crosses long. Baltimore prepares to head home, but Riviere heads clear just in time.
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40 min: Cuthbert plays a long pass down the right in the hope of releasing Macario on goal. The flag goes up for offside, and Tullis-Joyce claims on the edge of her box anyway.
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