Manchester United v Manchester City: Women’s Super League – live

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Manchester derbies are always huge games and today is no different.

Manchester City are runaway leaders in the WSL with an eight point gap between themselves and their neighbours. A win today would almost certainly wrap things up as Andrée Jeglertz’s side need eight points to win the title.

Manchester United are looking for revenge after their 3-0 defeat in the reverse fixture. Mark Skinner’s side are technically still in the title race but a win today is probably more important for their Champions League qualification, with only three points separating second place and fourth place.

Team news

Manchester United: Tullis-Joyce, Le Tissier, Lundkvist, Park, Malard, Awujo, Riviere, Naalsund, Hinata, Turner, Schüller

Subs: Middleton-Patel, Rendell, George, Anderson, Rolfo, Drury

Manchester City: Yamashita, Rose, Knaak, Greenwood, Casparij, Coffey, Hasegawa, Hemp, Fujino, Miedema, Shaw

Subs: Keating, Combs, Fowler, Kerolin, Ouahabi, Blindkilde Brown, Lohmann, Beney, Prior

Hello and welcome to minute-by-minute coverage of the Manchester derby at 1:30pm (GMT). I’ll be providing you with updates over the next few hours. Send me an email with your thoughts.

Preamble

Xaymaca will be along shortly. In the meantime, here’s what the Manchester City head coach, Andree Jeglertz, had to say before his league-leading side’s short trip to Old Trafford to take on Manchester United in the derby.

These games live their own lives. Because a derby in this city is always going to get 100% energised players from both teams at the beginning. It almost doesn’t matter what tempo you start as your opponent will be ready. These games aren’t determined by 15, 20 minutes. Definitely the longer the game goes, it can be a challenge but it’s how the game turns out and what happens. Definitely in the beginning both teams will be 100% focused and energised, they really want to get three points in this game.”

Manchester City won November’s derby 3-0, with goals from Rebecca Knaak, Khadija Shaw and Lauren Hemp. United are looking to bounce back from a 3-2 first-leg defeat against Bayern Munich in the Champions League in midweek. Their head coach, Marc Skinner had this to say:

City are top of the league for a reason but we will take that challenge on. Once you accept that challenge, you can rise to a new level.

And here’s Tom Garry’s preview of a WSL weekend full of derby clashes.