Arsenal v Aston Villa, London City Lionesses v Manchester City, and more: Women’s Super League – live
Clockwatch: Join Luke McLaughlin for all the Women’s Super League matches of the day, including Arsenal v Aston Villa and Charlton v Chelsea
12.15pm GMT
15 min: Villa are being pressed back constantly, and it feels like a matter of time before Arsenal find a route through this defence. Russo continues to link well with Foord down the Gunners’ left.
12.12pm GMT
12 min: Russo provides an excellent layoff for Foord, on the left of the penalty area as Arsenal are attacking. Foord has clear sight of goal, but hits a weak shot straight at the keeper.
Updated at 12.13pm GMT
12.09pm GMT
9 min: So far on commentary we’ve had two mentions of “transitions” [ugh] and one of “second balls”. I guess we’ll take it.
12.07pm GMT
5 min: Arsenal have started mostly on the front foot in north London and are looking confident in possession, but a clear-cut chance has yet to materialise.
Villa Women have won their past two league games, against Everton last week and Liverpool the week before that. They are hence two wins from eight in the league and sit eighth in the table.
Both teams are in form, then, even if the unstoppable force and the immovable object might be overstating the case.
Updated at 12.08pm GMT
12.01pm GMT
First half kick-off Here we go!
Updated at 12.02pm GMT
11.56am GMT
A group of well-choreographed, fancy-dress-wearing school-age dancers fully embraced the Halloween spirit on Saturday as they boogied to one of Michael Jackson’s greatest hits at half-time here. Alas, the match itself was no thriller.
For Manchester United, the only scary thing about this game was how little they tested Courtney Brosnan in Everton’s goal in the first 75 minutes as they demonstrated their lack of creativity.
Related: ‘We need to be better’: Manchester United’s Olid demands progress after Everton draw
11.55am GMT
Five mins until kick-off at the Emirates, and elsewhere. Time for a quick news update from yesterday, via Tom Garry, and a stalemate between Everton and Manchester United at Goodison Park.
Updated at 12.01pm GMT
11.44am GMT
As Martin Semmens, the London City Lionesses chief executive, sits down is his office he looks like the cat that got the cream. He says he has just learned that the club’s Instagram page has generated 34m hits since Alexia Putellas won the Ballon d’Or on Monday evening, and it is only Thursday afternoon. On Sunday two clubs with seven of the top 30 players in the Ballon d’Or rankings will go head-to-head when Manchester City visit Hayes Lane, Bromley. It is, Semmens, says, “awesome for the WSL”.
