Smilla Holmberg’s stoppage-time equaliser for Arsenal denied Manchester United a first Women’s Super League victory this season.<\/p>\n
United had shocked Arsenal by taking the lead midway through the second half when Julia Zigiotti capitalised on an under-hit pass from Georgia Stanway.<\/p>\n
But Arsenal kept pushing for an equaliser and eventually got it when Holmberg volleyed a cross from the left into the roof of the net with 90 seconds remaining.<\/p>\n
It was a dramatic end to a match in which Manchester United were impressive defensively and put aside the disappointment of their opening two defeats of the season.<\/p>\n
The visitors came into the game under heavy criticism for poor displays against London City Lionesses and Chelsea, but this was considerably better.<\/p>\n
They were defensively organised, much better in midfield, and were able to cause Arsenal problems on the occasions they did break into the opposition third.<\/p>\n
Striker Elisabeth Terland had two of their best chances early on, forcing a double save from goalkeeper Misa Rodriguez.<\/p>\n
Arsenal responded as Mariona Caldentey’s strike swirled over and Stina Blackstenius’ header had to be tipped over the bar by Phallon Tullis-Joyce.<\/p>\n
United continued to defend impressively and were rewarded for their efforts when Zigiotti handed them the lead but they could not hold on.<\/p>\n
The outcome means Arsenal extend their WSL unbeaten streak to 20 games while new United boss Eva Olid must wait for her first victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smilla Holmberg’s stoppage-time equaliser for Arsenal denied Manchester United a first Women’s Super League victory this season. United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-776044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=776044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}