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Stress is mounting on supervisor Marc Skinner after Manchester United girls had been defeated by Metropolis within the Conti Cup.
United began brightly, dominating the opening ten minutes, earlier than Metropolis started to develop into the sport.
The officiating was questionable as Khadija Shaw and Chloe Kelly appeared to go down simply with out a lot contact whereas there have been instances Garcia was being held and the referee awarded nothing.
United shot-stopper, Phallon Tullis-Joyce, was known as into motion simply earlier than the half hour mark, diving to her proper to stop Shaw getting the opener.
Moments later, Irene Guerrero, who had returned from damage, had an excellent probability to place the guests forward however her shot was simply vast.
Heading in to stoppage time within the first half, Tullis-Joyce was there once more to maintain the scores stage, making herself large as Shaw shot from shut vary.
United had been energetic within the first half however appeared flat as they got here out for the second half.
It wasn’t lengthy earlier than Chloe Kelly opened the scoring for Metropolis. Gemma Evans failed to shut her down and he or she slotted it previous Tullis-Joyce.
United had been missing the sense of urgency or had drained legs as their heads dropped.
Metropolis had been on the entrance foot and Lauren Hemp, from what appeared like an offside place, tapped it in for 2.
The addition of Toone, Geyse and Malard introduced a positivity to United’s play however time was working out.
The Reds managed to claw one again deep into stoppage time. Nikita Parris, who had labored arduous all night time, managed to dig it out within the six yard field.
Although there was not a lot time on the clock it appeared like late drama may very well be on the playing cards as Parris was introduced down within the field however United’s requires a penalty had been ignored by the ref.
Moments later Geyse had the possibility to attract United stage however her shot was properly saved by Keating.
The sport led to defeat however United had been nonetheless assured they’d accomplished sufficient to qualify as finest runner up as different outcomes had gone their means.
Nevertheless, Aston Villa, who beat Sunderland 7-0, fielded an ineligible participant. Relying how the FA select to self-discipline them, United may in truth lose their place within the Quarter finals to the Black Cats if the result’s overturned.
Workforce: Tullis-Joyce, Turner, Le Tissier, Evans, Blundell, Zelem (Ladd), Naalsund, Garcia (Malard), Parris, Williams (Geyse), Guerrero (Toone)