Before this Women’s FA Cup semi-final, Joe Montemurro had said the team who found their rhythm “as quickly as possible” and was “able to control and dictate” would be most likely to progress. Unfortunately for the
Arsenal manager, the team were Manchester City
Sam Mewis, the World Cup-winning
USA midfielder, was at the hustling centre of a press that would earn her new team a Wembley final against Everton on 1 November. Mewis’s winner, her first goal in
England, came three minutes after Jordan Nobbs had equalised following Steph Houghton’s free-kick opener for City.