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Saturday, 23 February 2019

It's Manchester City's Day In Sunny Sheffield

Penalty shoot-out in the 2019 Continental Cup Final, Bramall Lane Sheffield


Saturday’s Continental Cup Final at Bramall Lane was contested between the current top two in the FA Women’s Super League, Manchester City and Arsenal, and was a predictably tight affair which was settled on penalties in City’s favour after a goalless 120 minutes.

The victory was deserved as they created the vast majority of what chances there were and had far more attacking intent than an Arsenal side missing some key players and who even managed Joe Montemurro admitted played in a far more reserved manner than he would have liked because of the absences.

Prices of £10 for Adults (£7.50 during the early-bird phase) and £1 for Concessions were in place for the game and so a crowd of 2,424 was disappointing and for the foreseeable future it looks as though the FA Cup Final will be the only domestic fixture that goes beyond this core audience.

Tickets for the Wembley showpiece, which takes place on May, are priced at £15 Adults and free for children.

And many of the players on show in Sheffield today will be in the England squad that builds-up to this summer’s World Cup with four home friendly fixtures against Canada (at Manchester City Academy Stadium on Friday 5 April at 7pm), Spain (at Swindon Town, Tuesday 9 April, 7pm), Denmark (Walsall FC, Saturday 25 May, 3pm) and New Zealand (Brighton & Hove Albion, Saturday 1 June, 1pm).

Tickets for each game are priced at £10 Adults, £1 Concessions (£7.50 early-bird offer for adults if bought before 28 February for the April matches and 10 March for the other games.

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