double quotation markIncredible. What a season, what a way to end the season. We had a period between winning the league and now, and we enjoyed ourselves, but today was about what champions do: win again and again and again. I\u2019m really proud of the team.<\/p>\n
I hadn\u2019t scored a single goal this season; it\u2019s been a bit annoying to be honest. When she gave the free-kick, I thought \u2018Okay, you\u2019ve practised all season, at least do something about it.\u2019 Thank god it went in the back of the net.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think we played very well in the first half to be honest. Brighton started the game really well. We didn\u2019t concede a goal and we know how to change the momentum of a game. We have incredible individuals who can take the game by the scruff of the neck.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Manchester City have won all three FA Cups this season, women\u2019s, men\u2019s and youth\u2019s.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Manchester City win the FA Cup!<\/p>\n Full time: Brighton 0-4 Manchester City Manchester City Women<\/a> have done the Double for the first time!They hammered Brighton in the end, and though the scoreline is flattering, nobody can dispute their status as England\u2019s best team. Andree Jeglertz has worked wonders in his first season at the club.<\/p>\n Brighton were the better team for most of the first half, but Bunny Shaw\u2019s 38th-minute goal changed everything. Alex Greenwood scored a crucial second just before the break, and the substitutes Aoba Fujino and Vivianne Miedema completed a thumping victory.<\/p>\n Aoba Fujino and Laura Coombs of Manchester City celebrate the team’s victory at full time. Photograph: Molly Darlington\/The FA\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.08 EDT<\/p>\n 90+2 min Brighton almost score a consolation when the indefatigable Haley\u2019s shot is kicked away by Yamashita.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90+1 min Four minutes of added time.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min Greenwood made the first goal, scored the second and defended immaculately. She\u2019s just a class act.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> 89 min The Manchester City fans give a resounding roar of approval as Alex Greenwood is named as the player of the match.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 min: Brighton substitution Rebecca Rayner replaces Maisie Symonds.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Brighton 0-4 Man City (Miedema 87)<\/p>\n Vivianne Miedema sprays the icing on the cake. She started the move with a superb pass out to Casparij on the right, then ran 50 yards to meet Casparij\u2019s cross and power a downward header through the diving Nnadozie. A lovely goal, and a poignant moment for Miedema in the context of her mum\u2019s poor health.<\/p>\n Manchester City’s Dutch striker Vivianne Miedema heads the fourth goal. Photograph: Glyn Kirk\/AFP\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a012.09 EDT<\/p>\n 85 min: City substitution Laura Coombs, who will retire after this game, replaces the magnificent Bunny Shaw.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 84 min The next corner eventually leads to Rose hooking a volley onto the roof of the net. Nnadozie had it covered.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 83 min The resulting corner is half cleared, back to the taker Greenwood. She pushes the ball back to Fujino, whose whipped shot is brilliantly saved at the near post by Nnadozie.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 82 min Bunny Shaw almost gets her second, and City\u2019s fourth, with a shot that is tipped over by Nnadozie. Superb save, that, the best of the match.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 79 min: Double substitution for Brighton Nadine Noordan and Rachel McLauchlan replace Fran Kirby and Marisa Olislagers<\/p>\n Share<\/a> 78 min The attendance of 43,917 is a little bit lower than what the organisers had hoped for. It is still the seventh-highest attendance in this competition\u2019s history and almost ten times larger than the turnout this showpiece fixture attracted merely 13 years ago, but a number closer to 50,000 had been anticipated.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 min: Double substitution for City Sydney Lohmann and Mary Fowler come on for Lauren Hemp and Laura Blindkilde Brown.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 min The official attendance is 43,917.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76 min Time for a drinks break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 75 min Caspirik leaned into Haley but not with enough force for it to be a clear and obvious error. I\u2019m not even sure it was a foul.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 74 min Brighton appeal unsuccessfully for a penalty when Haley goes down in the area. It\u2019ll be checked by VAR.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 min: Double substitution for Brighton Maelys Mpome and Rosa Kafaji replace Kiko eike and Charlize Rule.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 min A terrific cross from Symonds is headed high and wide by the off-balance Vanegas. Brighton have played really well today, whatever the scoreline says.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 68 min The scoreline feels really harsh on Brighton, but champions are clinical and City have exemplified that.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Shaw got away from Hayes on the left and slid a low pass into Miedema. She allowed it to run across to Fujino, who skipped back on her left foot and hit a deflected shot past Nnadozie.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Brighton 0-3 Man City (Fujino 66)<\/p>\n Manchester City have done the Double for the first time!<\/p>\n Aoba Fujino of Manchester City scores her side’s third goal. Photograph: Tom Major\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a011.41 EDT<\/p>\n 65 min: Chance for City! Greenwood\u2019s outswinging corner from the left is headed across goal and wide by Knapp. Once she got there it was a pretty good chance.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 63 min Seike runs at Greenwood and drills a shot from the angle that is held by Yamashita.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 62 min: Man City substitutions Aoba Fujino and the great Vivianne Miedema, who has been on compassionate leave, replace Grace Clinton and Kerolin.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 60 min Olislagers pings a shot from the edge of the D that is well blocked by the outrushing Blindkilde Brown.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 59 min After good play from Clinton, Kerolin shoots tamely at Nnadozie.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 57 min Shaw tries a reverse pass to Hemp in the area; Brighton cut it out.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 53 min After a good Brighton move, Knack barges Haley to the floor and is booked. Brighton remain bushy-tailed despite the scoreline.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 51 min Kerolin beats Vanegas on the right and clips a dangerous ball across the face of goal. Hemp retreives the loose ball, fouling Rule in the process, and shoots just wide. It wouldn\u2019t have counted.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 49 min Brighton are up against it but they don\u2019t look a beaten team and have started the second half pretty well. Trouble is City have a two-goal cushion and an extremely competent defence.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 48 min \u201cThat\u2019s Celtic won the Women\u2019s Scottish Cup btw,\u201d writes James Humphries. \u201cThe more things change, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 min Peep peep! Brighton get the second half under way.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Half-time reading<\/p>\n Share<\/a> Every player in the Brighton wall seemed to be expecting Kerolin to take that free-kick. Instead, Greenwood\u2019s effort with her left was placed perfectly into the corner and Brighton will be kicking themselves. They\u2019ve been the stronger team for most of the half but they go in at the break 2-0 down. Don\u2019t forget, they were also 2-0 down in their semi-final away against Liverpool…<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Half time: Brighton 0-2 Manchester City<\/p>\n Brighton have been the better team; City have been the more clinical and lead through goals from Bunny Shaw and Alex Greenwood.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Shaw was fouled in the D by Symonds. After much consideration, Greenwood curled a precise free-kick into the bottom-right corner. I\u2019m not sure about the wall, which left a big gap, and the ball went under the diving Nnadozie, but City are 2-0 up and in control.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.57 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Brighton 0-2 Man City (Greenwood 45+6)<\/p>\n Manchester City are on course for their first Double!<\/p>\n Alex Greenwood of Manchester City (left) scores their side’s second goal. Photograph: George Tewkesbury\/ShutterstockShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.55 EDT<\/p>\n 45+5 min Hayes loses the ball in a dangerous area to Kerolin, who faffs around on the edge of the area and is eventually dispossessed. That was half a chance for City.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.54 EDT<\/p>\n 45+1 min There will be seven minutes of added time: drinks break + Yamashita injury + other stuff.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min After a neat move from Brighton, Vanegas mishits a shot from the edge of the area that is easily saved by Yamashita.<\/p>\n The goal hasn\u2019t really affected Brighton, who are dominating possession as we approach half-time. They\u2019re such an impressive team.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 42 min Brighton probably need half-time to regroup. They\u2019ve been the better team for most of the first half and are certainly not out of this.<\/p>\n They\u2019re also the only team to come from behind to beat or even draw with City this season.<\/p>\n Share<\/a> 39 min Brighton momentarily seemed to be asking for a free-kick for a foul on the goalkeeper but I don\u2019t think there was anything wrong with what Shaw did there. She simply outjumps Nnadozie. It was a lethal cross from Greenwood and that\u2019s the first genuine moment of quality from Manchester City.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.44 EDT<\/p>\n Hemp collects the ball on the left and finds Greenwood, who swings a typically precise cross to the far post. Nnadozie comes for it but Shaw gets there first to score with a gentle looping header. It\u2019s a goalkeeping error, sad to say, but the next chapter of Bunny Shaw\u2019s City career has begun in style.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.43 EDT<\/p>\n GOAL! Brighton 0-1 Man City (Shaw 38)<\/p>\n Now the scoreline has changed!<\/p>\n Manchester City’s Khadija Shaw scores their side’s first goal. Photograph: Andrew Matthews\/PAShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a010.44 EDT<\/p>\n 37 min Lots of City possession now. The scoreline is the same but the mood of the match has done a 180.<\/p>\n![\"Tom](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1780244111_334_Tom_Garry.png\")
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