Key events
89 min: Lenna Gunning-Williams replaces Jessica Naz, who has ran herself into the ground today.
87 min: Both managers can still be heard barking instructions at their players from the sidelines.
United will be desperate to keep another clean sheet, while Spurs probably deserve at least one goal.
85 min: Bizet has taken a knock to the head from a stray elbow. She’s a tough cookie though and shakes it off. She’s done really well this afternoon for United at right-back, it must be said.
82 min: The pace has dropped from this game now, with United happy to operate on the counter and Spurs just short of ideas and motivation, you sense.
79 min: Vinberg turns, shoots and demands another Spurs corner for a deflection. There’s nothing doing in every sense.
78 min: Neville flashes a shot across the face of goal. Time is running out for Tottenham.
76 min: That comes to nothing and United will now make a triple change. Hinata Miyazawa, Rachel Williams and Simi Awujo are on, with Elisabeth Terland, Ella Toone and Lisa Naaslund going off.
There’s a deserved standing ovation for Terland from the fans at LSV.
74 min: Spurs have their eighth corner of the afternoon and England goes close, flicking a header that balloons over to the back post, with Galton heading it off the line.
Time for a ninth corner…
72 min: Ashley Neville with a well-timed challenge on Galton. That potentially stopped a goal; the United winger was bearing down on goal.
4-0 to the hosts now looks more likely than 3-1.
71 min: Clinton hustles and harries and forces the mistake from Hunt and Toone should do better once Terland has fed her. The England forward blazes it over.
69 min: If Spurs get a goal now…
(They no longer really look like getting one).
67 min: Thomas hasn’t given up, to be fair to her, she’s still running the channels down the left, with Vinberg also making her presence felt down that side now.
64 min: United may have a problem, with Clinton down on her haunches and receiving some medical attention.
Toone has been booked for a late challenge.
63 min: Spurs look completely sapped at the moment. I don’t think they can quite believe they’re 3-0 down.
60 min: I was surprised neither Toone nor Terland took that penalty, so the pressure was on Le Tissier to some extent. She didn’t show any signs of feeling it. United surely have this wrapped up now.
GOAL! Man Utd 3-0 Tottenham (Le Tissier, 59)
Ella Toone spots down the ball and, despite the fact Terland is on a hat-trick, Maya Le Tissier takes it.
And the United captain makes no mistake, slotting it into the bottom right corner.
Penalty United! Ashley Neville is adjudged to have handled in the area.
56 min: Spurs are making a fairly early change, as it looks like Summanen won’t be able to continue. Matilda Vinberg is on.
54 min: United are exhibiting some fine buildup play now and they look the most likely to get the (crucial, obviously) next goal.
52 min: Skinner is talking to Bizet on the sideline. You have to say his decision to play the winger at right-back had borne fruit so far.
She’s put in two fine crosses for the United goals.
Summanen has been getting some treatment on the field for Spurs.
50 min: Oh, United should have three and Terland should have a hat-trick, she’s played clean through and hits the post. Spencer just about touched that onto the woodwork.
48 min: Spurs are keeping the ball well. Their problem so far has been a lack of cutting edge in the final third.
46 min: Spurs start the second half in much the same way they started the first – pressing high and winning set-pieces as United attempt to win it back.
Second half: We go again. Can Spurs find a way back into this one?
Here’s Terland’s second:
Spurs should remember how well they’ve played and, if they can, take heart. The link-up between Thomas and England has been effective, with Jessica Naz a consistent threat down the right too.
The problem is they’ve switched off at the back a couple of times and been punished by some ruthless finishing.
I’m off to grab a coffee and reflect on that first half.
HALF TIME
Manchester United 2-0 Tottenham.
The visitors will feel completely shellshocked. They dominated for long periods in that first half but they now trail by two after two fine finishes from Terland. That’s the price you can pay for profligacy, I guess.
United’s more clinical finishing has put them in control, on course for a third straight WSL victory, and Robert Vilahamn looks perplexed to say the least.
GOAL! Man Utd 2-0 Tottenham (Terland, 45+4)
A flowing United move and another fine goal for Terland, made by Bizet! Wow.
Clinton held onto it nicely and laid the ball for Bizet to whip in from the right, in similar fashion to the first goal. This time Terland latches onto it with her head and Spencer has no chance. A fine double-salvo from the United striker.
45 min + 2: United almost scrambled one in from the corner but the referee blows up for a foul on Spencer.
Tottenham will feel really aggrieved if they’re trailing at the break. But United have had good spells in the half, especially in the past five to 10 minutes.
45 min: That’s pretty special from Elisabeth Terland, her first United goal. And it will live long in the memory.
I said it came on the stroke of half-time, but we’ve got six added minutes now, as Terland has another effort blocked. United sense the chance to nick another.
GOAL! Man Utd 1-0 Tottenham (Terland, 44)
Terland on the stroke of half-time! United lead and it’s against the run of play really.
The Norwegian striker hasn’t had much of a kick but it’s a super volley to meet Bizet’s fine cross from the right, with far too power for Spencer to keep it out.
41 min: United are least battling hard in midfield, in the face of a fierce Tottenham press.
Can they conjure something before the interval?
38 min: As I type that, it nearly clicks for United, with Galton stretching to shoot following a good move down the left, but it’s easily collected by Spencer.
