At this level, a drop of just a few percentage points is immediately plain to see. In the 86th minute, City capitalised one of these moments as Carlotta Wamser was left in too much space on the edge of the box, stepped inside and fired in the equaliser.
Dropped points
“At the end of the day, we played our game for large parts, dominated and scored two goals,” said Gwinn. “Then we just lacked the maturity to see it through to the end. We literally invited them on with our mistakes. Suddenly we were playing long balls and got nervous. It feels like two points dropped.”
Bianca Rech, women’s football director, also described mixed emotions: “I’m proud, particularly of how we performed in the first half. In my view, that was really excellent. But in the second half, we didn’t respond well to what Manchester City did. We weren’t sharp enough in front of goal and lost the momentum as a result.”
Start offers encouragement – and lessons