And with that, I’m off. Suzanne’s full match report has now landed, so I leave you with a link to that. Bye!

Here is Sonia Bompastor, who says that Kadeisha Buchanan “was not herself from the beginning of the game”, which is why she was taken off after just 12 minutes, but says Buchanan sustained a head injury in training yesterday that explains it:

Of course I’m happy. Credit to my players, we showed a lot of character today. It was not easy, especially on the back of the points we dropped last week. The players worked really hard, the performance was a good one, especially being able to not concede any goal against this side, it was a strong defensive performance. You try to keep Shaw quiet as much as possible, you need to keep doing that for the 90+ minutes. I thought Buurman had an incredible game but the whole team had a strong performance in terms of the defensive aspect.

I’m happy for them to play like dogs or cats or whatever they want. We’re doing really good in terms of not being easy to break down. Today was another opportunity to do that against a top team. Many games have to be played and we are early in the season. It’s good to win against top sides, but we also have work to do to be capable of being more consistent.

And those substitutions:

I think with Melvin I was forced to do the substitution because she felt her hamstring. With Buchanan she took a knock in training on her head and I felt from the beginning of the game she was not herself, so I was almost forced to do that one.

We haven’t yet heard from Sonia Bompastor, who at half-time promised to tell us at the end of the game the contrasting reasons behind her first-half substitutions.

The City coach, Andree Jeglertz, has a chat:

Of course I’m disappointed. I think it’s a high-quality game. I think we deserved more. There’s parts of the game where we had a good performance but we also played a good team. I need to see [the sending-off] again and when is it a red card and when is it a yellow card, but I’m proud of how the players are managing that, and that’s something we bring with us. Of course it’s more difficult if you’re a player down, against a good team like Chelsea, to score a goal is not easy. But we created enough chances to do that, and didn’t manage it in the end. We’re not defending a title, we’re chasing a new one. I said that all the time. We won last year, we’re very proud of that. This year there are more teams challenging for the title, it will be a tight league this year also and that’s what we want. This game is also showing what a high level it is.

Jade Rose is the first City player to speak:

I think all of us are disappointed with the result. We wanted more. We knew it was going to be a battle. We wanted those three points and we’re disappointed we couldn’t get the job done today. There was a momentum shift in the first half and we struggled to get that momentum back in our direction. I think the result reflects that. Ayaka [Yamashita]’s an incredible player and a massive part of this team. Everyone makes mistakes and she’ll learn from it and move on.

Now Lucy Bronze, who credits Katie McCabe with the exhortation to play like dogs:

I always love playing against the top players, two specifically in Hempo and Bunny. They’re magic for City this season. It’s something we spoke about, we have to be dogs because you can’t give them any chances. Just be in and around them, don’t give them any chances because we know how good they are, they need one spark to score.

She’s so strong and powerful, that’s a big part of her game. You just have to challenge her as best you can and restrict any movement. We did that today, she was just getting long balls to the halfway line and we picked up the seconds. Hempo’s a great player as well. With England, in training we’re always against each other, right back and left wing. I think I dealt with it pretty well.

I think we’ve been consistent all season, we just haven’t maybe been as prolific with goals. But we’ve performed well in every game, just arguably not against Everton last weekend. We’ve been consistent, we’ve built a group of players who are always there, constantly fighting and we just keep going and going.

Suzanne Wrack’s quick full-time verdict has landed! And here it is!

Pragmatic, resolute and gutsy. Sonia Bompastor showed her ruthless side and delivered a tactical masterclass as Chelsea earned a 1-0 win over Manchester City and leapfrogged them at the top of the Women’s Super League.

Sandy Baltimore’s stunning strike in added time at the end of the first half was the difference, as the west London side nullified the threat of a team that had scored in each of their preceding 21 games in all competitions, delivering their first loss of the campaign.

The task for City got even tougher when goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita received a straight red for clattering into Alyssa Thompson, but despite their numerical disadvantage it was end to end right up until the final whistle.

A full report will follow, and you’ll be able to find it here:

Keira Walsh has an interesting chat. She speaks very quickly, so I didn’t get all of it, but I did my best:

I think something we’ve changed from last year, the intensity’s a lot better. Most first and second balls were ours and that’s what wins you games to be honest. The last two games we’ve not scored but today it’s a bit different, we’re not playing against the low block. When it comes to Chelsea it’s about fighting and trying to play good football and that’s what we did today.

I’m really enjoying playing a bit higher, trying to have an impact on the game a bit more this season. I was a bit disappointed with my season last season, I don’t think I impacted games enough, and that’s something I’ve been trying to do a bit more. You can take more risks, and I actually enjoy pressing, running around. I think we’re in a better place than we were last year. I think we’re in a good place, we’re confident and the team’s really happy.

Veerle Buurman, Chelsea’s early substitute, is named player of the match and has a quick chat:

First of all I’m really happy with the win. This was a team performance, we kept a clean sheet, we scored an amazing goal and we really worked hard for this game. Of course they prepare you really well as a substitute. I didn’t expect this early to come in the game. The team helped me really good. Maybe the first minute was tough but the team helped me and we had a really good performance. I think this was a really important three points for us, and we did really well.

90+6 mins: Thompson is brought down, maybe 15 yards into the City half, and with 45 seconds to play that might be the end of it, or near enough.

90+5 mins: A bit of penalty-area scramblage ends with a Beever-Jones shot and a reaction save from Cumings, though the ball may have hit her in the head if she hadn’t got her hands up.

90+4 mins: There are, incidentally, six minutes or so of stoppage time to be played.

90+3 mins: A lovely, floated cross from Hamano finds three blue shirts throwing themselves at the ball at the far post, but none can make killer contact!

90+1 mins: Beney bursts into the Chelsea area and blasts a shot wide.

90 mins: Now a different City keeper almost makes a howler, with Cumings dallying on the ball and then hitting her pass into Beever-Jones, but the ball does not deflect into, or even towards, her goal.

87 mins: Some substitutional news: Chelsea bring Cuthbert on for Potter, and she also takes the armband. City bring Mead on for Wamser.

86 mins: Now Beever-Jones is played in on the left, but her shot flashes across goal and wide.

85 mins: An excellent Chelsea break ends with a deeply rubbish attempted pass from Hamano towards Beever-Jones, when she had space to take a touch and shoot herself (or just play a better pass).

83 mins: Hasegawa chips a pass over the entire Chelsea outfield team towards Shaw, but three defenders are immediately on top of her and she can’t get away from them.

82 mins: A sight of goal for City, but Beney heads wide at the far post.

79 mins: Chelsea hit the bar with the free-kick! Beever-Jones takes it, lifts the ball over the wall, but it doesn’t quite drop far enough, with Cumings beaten!

78 mins: For what it’s worth I’m not sure there was much or indeed any actual contact between Yamashita and Thompson, but it was a ludicrous challenge that invited what followed.

77 mins: City have to bring on a goalkeeper, so Cumins comes on for Fujino, who has been excellent but somebody’s got to go.

71 mins: Now an incredible miss from Chelsea! Or rather, two incredible misses! A cross from the left finds Hamano unmarked, but she misjudges her header and misses it completely! It falls to carpenter, who has acres of space beyond the far post, and she chests it down before … blootering a shot actually away from goal!

70 mins: It would be interesting to see possession statistics for the first 25 minutes of this half, but I suspect Chelsea wouldn’t like them.

67 mins: Chelsea are under severe pressure here, but Chelsea are holding firm and Hampton still hasn’t had a noteworthy save to make.

66 mins: Now Shaw runs into the left of the penalty area, but she’s forced to check back onto her right foot and her shot, when it comes, is blocked.

64 mins: How did that not go in? The ball is lifted down the right, Beney lifts it infield to Shaw, who lifts it over the keeper – yes, this is a lot of lifting – and Hemp runs in to turn it over the line from about eight inches out but … completely misses it!

62 mins: It’s been a scrappy start to the half, starting much as the first ended. City hope to change things with a double substitution, taking off Fowler and Coffey and bringing on Blindkilde Brown and Vivianne Miedema.

60 mins: An excellent few minutes for Chelsea, and it almost ends with a chance for Kaptein, but Shaw is there to head the ball away from her.

58 mins: A good run from Thompson, cutting in from the left, but Wamser does well to cover Beevor-Jones and clear the ball when it comes in.

57 mins: The game’s second shot on target! Shaw sets up Fujino, whose shot from the edge of the area is feeble and easily stopped.

54 mins: Manchester United have beaten Crystal Palace 2-0 in a one-sided encounter. They duly rise to fourth in the table. Tottenhan could retake that spot if they beat Everton in the 3pm kick-off.

53 mins: Another City player is booked for fouling Bronze, this time Wamser punished for a shirt-pull.

50 mins: Big chance! But it’s offside! And missed anyway! From a free-kick Coffee provides an excellent cross and Shaw heads over, but the flag’s up.

47 mins: Shaw jumps into Bronze, rather than actually competing for the header, and then adds insult to injury by landing on top of her, for which the referee gives her a yellow card.

46 mins: Peeeep! City get the second half started.

Sonia Bompastor has a quick halftimely chat, as Hamano comes on for Baltimore. She suggests, reading between the lines, that one of the first-half substitutions, presumably that of Buchanan after only 12 minutes, was tactical rather than enforced:

For now I think the first half was good in terms of the performance, but we know this team is tough so we need to be focused. The game is not over. I will explain [the substitutions] maybe after the game, but different stories behind the substitutions.

The players are back out, and it looks like Chelsea are making a third substitution.

After just over half an hour the teams had had two shots each. In the final 15 minutes Chelsea outshot their opponents 4-0: they shut up shop in defence, worked a couple of half-chances, and finally took one.

Here meanwhile are the lineups for the 3pm game:

Tottenham Hotspur Women: Kop, Dijkstra, Koga, Amanda Nilden, Blakstad, Pelova, Spence, Hanson, Holdt, Gaupset, Tandberg. Subs: Panengstuen, Morris, Naz, Vinberg, Matilda Nilden, Gunning-Williams, Martinez, Wijk, Dezire-Pierre.
Everton Women: Brosnan, Blundell, Layzell, Ishikawa, Kitagawa, Mace, Wheeler, Momiki, van Gool, Pacheco, Vignola. Subs: Foster, Hobson, Cain, Rantala, Mouchon, Finnigan, Galli, Silcock, Howard.

45+4 mins: Chelsea win the ball in the City defensive third but then completely waste it, and City get the chance to clear.

45+2 mins: A full two minutes passes between Shaw conceding a free-kick and Chelsea getting around to taking it. It’s lifted into the area, headed across goal, and collected by Yamashita.

45+1 mins: Into stoppage time, and there’s going to be about five minutes of it.

43 mins: It looks like Lauren Hemp is going to be able to continue, though she’s feeling the right side of her neck a little gingerly.

42 mins: The physios are back on, this time City’s, after Hemp landed awkwardly and stayed down.

40 mins: Chance! It feels like it’s been a while since the last one, after the first quarter-hour or so was basically non-stop attacking. Anyway, Thompson crosses, and Beever-Jones meets it in the middle, but the ball’s a bit behind her, she has to improvise a goalwards volley and she can’t quite get it on target.

38 mins: Manchester United have, meanwhile, taken a 2-0 lead against Crystal Palace, thanks to Elisabeth Terland’s tidy finish.

36 mins: And Chelsea are forced into a second first-half substitution, with Aggie Beevor-Jones comes on for the injured Malard.

35 mins: Malard is now down and receiving treatment from Chelsea’s physios.

33 mins: Match stats so far: City have had 51% of possession, are 6-5 up on touches in the opposition box, the teams have had two shots each and none on target, and City have had 181 shots to Chelsea’s 175. In short, nothing between them.

31 mins: Chelsea escape, get down the other end and win a corner, which is floated into the area and looks to be curling in before Shaw gets the top of her head to it and diverts it wide!

29 mins: Most of the Chelsea team have spent most of the last few minutes within 30 yards of their own goal, but City haven’t been able to convert their possession into a chance.

26 mins: McCabe gives the ball away, and a couple of quick passes give Wamser a shooting chance from maybe 25 yards, but she can’t get it on target.

24 mins: So close! A fine pass finds Baltimore on the Chelsea left, and her low cross is just too far in front of Malard for her to turn it in!

21 mins: Chances for Chelsea! Thompson gets down the left but her Malard is being well marshalled by Knaak and her cross runs across the goalmouth to Carpenter, whose her cross is well cleared by Knaak.

18 mins: Chelsea have the ball for a while, which is something that didn’t really happen in an opening 10 minutes dominated by the visitors.

15 mins: A lovely pass releases Carpeneter down the Chelsea right, but once she gets to the edge of the area, and despite having three teammates offering options, she scuffs a feeble shot that rolls wide.

14 mins: A booking for Chelsea’s Lexi Potter, for fouling Coffey.

12 mins: Actually the ball came off Rose rather than Beney. Anyway, and more importantly, Chelsea have been forced to make a change in their defence with Buchanan being forced off, presumably through injury, and Buurman coming on.

10 mins: Another deflection nearly leads to a goal! Malard takes on Beney and runs into the area before sending in a cross the deflects off Beney and suddenly it’s heading in at the near post, but Yamashita reacts well, changes direction and makes the save.

9 mins: City are still pushing, and though McCabe has just denied Fujino another chance in doing so she so nearly deflected the ball into her own net! In the end it bounces just wide of the far post.

8 mins: And another chance for Fujino! The ball cannons off a defender and into her path, allowing her to run clear and into the area, but she can’t find the net!

6 mins: Meanwhile the half-time whistle has sounded at the Progress with Unity Stadium, with Manchester United still 1-0 up against Crystal Palace.

5 mins: Then Chelsea go down the other end and Alyssa Thompson has an excellent chance to shoot from just outside the area, but it’s a poor effort and goes behind for a goal kick.

4 mins: Chance! Shaw, for the second time already, gets into space on the left of the area, and pulls back to Aoba Fujino, who shoots just wide!

2 mins: Buchanan lingers on the ball really unnecessarily inside her own penalty area, allowing Shaw to believe she can steal it, but then she toepokes it to a teammate just in time.

1 min: Peeeeeeep! Chelsea get the ball rolling!

Almost gametime, as the referee checks her watch. And then her other watch.

Liquidator rings out at Stamford Bridge as the two teams emerge!

The two coaches have a little chat with the BBC. Here’s some of Sonia Bompastor:

It’s the teams who are right now close to each other at the top of the table. We’re focused on winning the game. It’s still too early to focus on where we will be at the end of the season.

And a bit of City’s Andree Jeglertz:

Of course there’s some speed in their attacking phase. They also have a central midfielder who is dominating a lot of games. Both teams are playing a lot man-to-man in the defending phase, so you need to escape from that.

After just over half an hour, Manchester United have had 79% of possession, 90% of the 10 shots, 100% of the two shots on target, and are generally in complete control.

Before the United game Maya Le Tissier was given a framed shirt to mark her 150th appearance for the club. About 20 minutes later she had something else to celebrate.

Manchester United are dominating so far, and Maya Le Tissier has now put them 1-0 up with an excellent shot from 20 yards or so that dips into the corner of the net.

Essential pre-match reading: here’s Suzanne Wrack’s preview of Chelsea v Manchester City:

There was a time when the games between the top three – traditionally Chelsea, Manchester City and Arsenal – were title-deciders. Where every point taken off a title rival was key. Such was the gap in investment and quality between those teams and the rest of the Women’s Super League, it was extremely rare that points would be dropped to teams outside that elite clique.

But when Chelsea welcome the title holders and current league leaders to Stamford Bridge on Saturday lunchtime the three points isn’t the most important takeaway. Instead, based on the state of play, it’s the momentum, confidence, belief and bragging rights that are critical.

Much more here:

Meanwhile, Manchester United’s home game against Crystal Palace is about to start. Victory would take United to within sniffing distance of London City Lionesses, currently third, while three points for Palace would propel them into the top half of the table.