United Women 4 Spurs 0

FIRST HALF

Both sides showed their proactive intentions early in the game, with efforts at either end registered before we had passed the two-minute mark.

Leah Galton earned the Reds a corner with her strike, which was dispatched to the head of Rachel Williams at the back post. She muscled her way to the ball, but nodded it marginally over the top of the bar.

The pace settled down in the 15 minutes following this early flurry, but the Reds still looked the most dangerous going forward.

With Williams on the pitch, United always looked a threat from corners, but it was Millie Turner who created United's best chance of the half when she nodded Zelem's delivery back across the goalmouth. It was begging to be scrambled in, but Lucia Garcia arrived on the scene just a fraction after Spurs' Eveliina Summanen, marginally missing out on what would have almost certainly been a goal.

Williams was naturally occupying a lot of the attention in the penalty area from set-pieces, so Turner rose above the crowd once again to meet the Reds' fourth corner of the half, this time taking the opportunity on herself. Her header had Tottenham's goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer rooted to the floor, but her team-mate - and former Red - Martha Thomas intervened at the last second to clear it off the line for the second time in the half.

The stalemate looked to be carrying through to the interval when Ella Toone collected the ball from Lisa Naalsund on the halfway line in the final minute of first-half stoppage time.

Our no.7 looked up and saw space opening up to charge forward, with the opposition vacating the midfield and she duly took the invitation. On arrival outside the Spurs box, she smoothly skipped past the sliding challenge of Eveliina Summanen before expertly curling an effort into the top-right corner, beyond the fingertips of a diving Spencer between the sticks.

The Red half of Wembley erupted and seconds later the referee blew the half-time whistle. Toone had struck a perfect effort at the perfect moment.