Manchester City v Chelsea: Women’s Super League – live!

14 mins: Chelsea win a corner, and Roebuck comes out but doesn’t get much distance on her punch. It’s headed back towards goal, and then headed away again. You could call it a clearance off the line if you absolutely insist, but the ball wasn’t going very fast, and the defending player (Greenwood, I think) was always in its path.

10 mins: Chelsea aren’t exactly sailing through the City storm, but they are managing to survive it. This time there’s a cross from the left, which Mewis heads over from the six-yard line.

9 mins: Now Mewis gets down the right, but once again she can’t pick the final pass, and her cross goes behind White and straight to Bright, who clears for a corner.

8 mins: Kelly runs into space down the right again, running onto White’s flick, but Bright and Ingle eventually catch her up, force her to turn back, and the chance is lost.

7 mins: Chance for City to create a chance! Mewis has the ball in midfield, sucks in a defender or two and White runs into the space they leave behind them. The pass is on to set her completely free, but Mewis can’t pull it off!

4 mins: Chelsea will be happy to weather any early City storm, and they have managed to keep things fairly calm since that early Kelly sprint.

1 mins: Chloe Kelly stretches her legs, going on a fabulous early run down the right, getting past Leupolz, taking on Ingle, and then spearing in a cross/shot that Berger falls on.

The players are out, and the biggest game of the WSL season is about 120 seconds away!

Here’s Emma Hayes during the build-up, indicating how big she thinks this match is.

The teams have been announced, and they look like this:

Man City: Roebuck, Bronze, Dahlkemper, Greenwood, Stokes, Walsh, Mewis, Weir, Kelly, Hemp, White.
Chelsea: Berger, Carter, Bright, Ingle, Andersson, Leupolz, Ji, Cuthbert, Kerr, Kirby, Harder.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time.

It has been apparent for many months that this game would probably decide this season’s title, and so it is. Chelsea come into it with a two-point advantage, and should they complete the double over their closest rivals they would emerge five points ahead with two games to play, against mid-table Tottenham and Reading, and the engraver can safely start scratching their name into the trophy. A draw wouldn’t be quite as decisive, but a Chelsea side that has won 16 of their 19 WSL games so far is unlikely to drop any more points. A Manchester City victory, on the other hand, would leave them ahead by a point with games against struggling West Ham and Birmingham to come, and they too seem unlikely to slip up. Essentially it’s win or bust for them tonight, with the title the prize.

“I think it’s fair to say it’s a big game,” says the Chelsea manager, Emma Hayes, wrapping up the understatement of the season prize with a few weeks to spare. “I’m used to these games so forgive me for not sounding sort of delirious about it but it is just another one for us,” she added.

Yeah, sure, fine, whatever you say. It certainly doesn’t feel like just another one from my perch. It is, to all intents and purposes, a cup final. Let’s enjoy it together, shall we?