Manchester City 1-0 Chelsea: Women's FA Cup semi-final – as it happened

Here’s the match report from Suzanne Wrack.

The managers speak.

City manager Nick Cushing: “We deserved the last-minute winner. We were owed one. I am proud of this team and I am proud of everyone. We didn’t create any chances and they didn’t take their chances. [The goal] was last-minute. It’s unfortunate for them.”

Chelsea’s Emma Hayes: “To lose that way for a player that’s been outstanding is cruel. That’s the way it goes sometimes. I will remind her how wonderful she has been all season.”

Jill Scott of City speaks.

I was so happy that we had scored. I thought we were destined for extra-time. It is the pinnacle of your career heading to Wembley. I didn’t know it was West Ham in the final. I’ve heard a lot of people say this was the final, but the final will be even harder.

90+8 min: Long balls the order of the Chelsea day...and that’s it.

90+7 min: Houghton is in pain, but soldiers on. What can Chelsea find?

90+6 min: Steph Houghton has an arm injury, a worry for Pippin Neville perhaps, though she seems ok to carry on. City make a change. Bonner comes on for Parris.

90+4 min: Chelsea try to chase an equaliser, but City hold firm, with Nikita Parris leading the defensive effort. Beattie, of City, goes down, and there will be many added moments for Chelsea to get an equaliser. There is plenty of cramp around too.

90 min: Into the last minute - there are three minutes added - and neither really going for it. But...Chelsea have space down the left...it comes to nothing. Kirby, though, picks it up. City sat deep and defensively.

89 min: Extra time is looming. Both teams have frozen - in the conditions and each other out.

88 min: Stanway down the left, and takes on the shot, hoping for a Berger fumble. It doesn’t happen and the effort is wide in any case.

86 min: An injury to McManus slows things down. And on comes England for Bachman and Ji for Drew Spence. Chelsea going for it, then, but too late to evade extra time?

83 min: That wasn’t actually a corner, but City will take it. The ball is cleared but Stanway escapes down the wing, and fires in low from an angle. Berger saves, at the second time of asking. There are nerves out there.

81 min: City have barely created a half-chance in this half. They are, though, at last, enjoying territory. Wullaert’s shot is blocked, and then Steph Houghton’s shot is wide but via a deflection.

79 min: Chelsea hit the post...Kirby runs into the deep, and the ball comes out to Cuthbert who smashes it. It rattles out and out to safety. Chelsea knocking on the door, City hanging on.

78 min: Here comes a Chelsea change. Bethany England to come on for Bachman looks the likely switch.

77 min: Chelsea looking the likelier? Maybe not that likely but that was very close from Kirby. It was a powerful header.

76 min: Chelsea seem reluctant to get anyone forward into the box. They do, though, get a free-kick, and Georgia Stanway is booked for a foul. There is a conference around the ball....close....Kirby rattles the crossbar when Cuthbert drills the ball in.

74 min: Scott surges on from deep but Chelsea’s offside trap does well. The caginess continues.

72 min: Extra time is looming. And so are penalties. Chelsea yet to bring on Ji, who seemed to be coming on 20 minutes ago but has not yet been seen.

70 min: A Chelsea attack breaks down, but so then does a City attack. Both teams lacking fluency. A mistake could win and lose this.

68 min: City move up in numbers. Scott’s ball is cleared by Ingram. This is a stalemate. City try to change things by bringing on Beckie for Weir.

66 min: City get caught when being too casual in defence. They receive a let-off as Kirby’s eventual shot is poor.

64 min: Chelsea passing it around now, City looking to counter. Stanway plays in Weir, but Jill Scott’s forward charge doesn’t get rewarded with a pass. The ball comes back in and Parris heads wide. That was close, the closest of this half.

62 min: Chelsea the team with the bit between their teeth now.

60 min: Wullaert is booked for a foul on Steph Houghton. Free-kick to Chelsea. Mjelde drives it under the wall, and it flies wide. Bardsley had it covered - just. Eriksson, from the corner, heads straight at the England keeper.

57 min: Ji is set to come on for Chelsea, to add some creative spark. It has been a little congested in midfield.

55 min: Carney loops in a corner. Eriksson is first to the ball but her header dribbles behind. Chelsea get the ball straight back and there is a brief moment when Kirby forces Bardsley into a mistake and there is a ghost of a chance. That is closed off, but we are dealing with small margins here.

54 min: Long ball out to Stanway, but Chelsea clear. Their defence is holding strong, and Kirby goes on the attack but runs out of allies. She expresses her annoyance at the lack of support, but that looks a tactical reticence from her colleagues.

52 min: Corner forced by City after Stanway turned and drilled the ball in. Beattie climbs highest after arriving late. Chelsea clear - but chaotically so.

49 min: Already, the caginess of the first half is in evidence. It is going to take something special to split these two.

47 min: Bit of afters from Mjelde and Stanway as they clash over a lost cause by the touchline. A flicker of simmering aggression between them.

46 min: City begin with a period of possession, and look to be trying to force the issue.

45 min: Fran Kirby has a chance, and space, in the last minute of the first half. She didn’t make the best of that. There will be a minute of added time.

44 min: City attack down the right before Wullaert gets a shot in, but Berger does well to close off the danger.

42 min: Chelsea fans have travelled in reasonable numbers to this one, and especially when big brother is at Anfield today.

41 min: More City ref rage when Stokes is penalised for what looks a decent challenge on Cuthbert.

39 min: City complain when Stanway, clearly onside, is called offside. The wagging finger won’t change the officials’ minds, even if Stanway was correct.

37 min: Even closer! Chelsea get in a terrible mess, and Parris has an open net to aim for, though from a tight angle, which she fails to bisect. Goalkeeper Berger was neither coming nor going.

36 min: Close! Stanway gets on the end of a rapid passing move, makes time and space and fizzes a shot wide of the post. That’s as close as we have come.

35 min: The wind, which is strong, is not helping the flow of the game. Pippin Neville is in the stand, accompanied as usual by son Harvey.

33 min: City now sitting deep, and not really forcing the issue. Both teams look to be relying on individual flashes to win this.

31 min: Another Chelsea corner, which are now mounting up in numbers. It came to Spence, but she cannot control it. The ball is hacked away by City’s defence.

30 min: City do not attack with the same pace as their opponents; their build-up play is more deliberate.

28 min: Chelsea corner, Andersson takes but Weir knocks it behind. On the second attempt, the ball comes out to Carney, whose shot goes wildly wide. Worth a go, though.

27 min: The good news for Manchester City is that their men’s team escaped a late scare at Crystal Palace to ride out 3-1 winners...

26 min: A case in point there. Karen Carney got away down the left, but ended up crowded out by City’s defence.

25 min: This is a tight affair. It feels like a single goal can win this one. And both are capable of that, though both are strong in defence.

23 min: Cuthbert down the right wing forges on for Chelsea but some great defending from Stokes closes off any danger.

21 min: Spence, though, fires in a shot on one of those Chelsea counters. Bardsley is equal to the task.

20 min: City have this under control and Emma Hayes, the Chelsea manager, does not look happy on the sidelines. She might have been unhappier still if Berger, the goalkeeper, had not got away with a kicking error.

18 min: City have a free-kick in a decent position. Difficult to keep down for the kicker, tougher for the goalkeeper perhaps, but there is no save to make as the chip is opted for. Mjelde clears the danger.

17 min: Another Chelsea attack is stopped by a Beattie block...then Sophie Ingle is booked for a late foul on Jill Scott, who in truth had lost control of the ball.

15 min: Cuthbert down the wing for Chelsea, but Jill Scott gets the ball clear. Chelsea have ridden out their own storm and are now upping the ante.

14 min: Chelsea try to pick things up after Jill Scott’s header is saved. They go on the counter. Bachman releases Kirby, whose shot is saved by Bardsley. That showed their menace in attack.

11 min: Weir, coming in from the flank, fires a shot that Mjelde has to get in the way of. Chelsea sitting back deep.

10 min: City stepping up now. Some good signs from them. Parris scuttles down the right, but her cross is cleared. Then on the opposite side, Stanway pings in a cross. Chelsea now under the cosh.

8 min: It’s a cold day up in Manchester...Nikita Parris gets on the end of a Stanway pass, pivots and shoots, but the shot is not hard enough. Berger collects with some comfort.

6 min: City yet to get in much of a groove, though Chelsea have lost that early dominance a tad. These are two very evenly matched teams.

4 min: Manchester City, having been pinned back, gain some territory at last, but lose the ball quickly. Chelsea decide to go long, but Bachmann cannot get on the end of it.

2 min: Chelsea have a free-kick, and captain Karen Carney launches it towards Drew Spence, but the ball is cleared. Chelsea very much pushing on from the get-go. Fran Cuthbert soon forces a save.

Ok, after all that excitement, on with the big game. A reminder that City have not lost a domestic game for 11 months. That shows the standards Arsenal have set in the WSL.

It’s into sudden death...

Lauren Bruton, of Reading, has just missed a penalty that reminded of John Terry in Moscow but three times slower....but Reading lead 3-2....

Penalties it is between West Ham and Reading....

From Saturday’s big paper, Simon Hattenstone’s interview with England manager Pippin Neville.

The other game, between Reading and West Ham, has ten minutes left to play in extra-time. Penalties are looming.

Kevin McKenna on Scotland’s historic defeat of Brazil.

And here, a tad belatedly, is the Chelsea team.

Here’s the Manchester City team.

Reading and West Ham have gone to extra time in the other game, with the scores locked at 1-1, and Reading missed a late penalty.