If Manchester United’s women avoid defeat on Sunday, they will secure a place in Europe for only the second time and to make it even sweeter, would do so at the expense of Manchester City, who would be consigned to fourth spot and a season without Women’s Champions League football.
Throw in that City are the visitors to Old Trafford for Sunday’s midday kick-off and it becomes one of the most pivotal games of this WSL campaign and a decisive one for the clubs’ medium-term trajectories.
