Here’s Suzanne Wrack’s report from Leigh Sports Village. The match finished with a sit-in demonstration against the Glazer family. Marc Skinner speaks to Sky: “I cannot be prouder of the players. We’ve only had eight training sessions together. It was a top-level game. I am proud of what the players have given us. Mal, you never know what she’s going to do. We flipped the script and she’s hit a worldie. A high-level game, she’s hit it really well and it’s gone in. These types of game are going to happen more often.” Jonas Eidevall speaks to Sky: “The performance was big from us today, ot many tams come here and are the better team. You need to match the performance and process with a result;. We should be disappointed not to win the hame. Maybe you are too greedy when your goal comes in the last minutes of the game. Today we created clear chances, much more energy than in the Liverpool gane. What defines you iS how you react to situations. Football is fast and you need to look forward, I believe in all my players I believe in [D’Angelo] as well. You start with one XI and you finish with another XI. I am pleased with the way we finished the game. In meetings, we present the bench first as they are so important, these are the tools we have to change games. Our players really showed that.” Kim Little, the Arsenal player, speaks to Sky Sports: “It was important after last week. I think we showed a lot of character. Chloe’s goal was an unbelievable finish. It’s a really positive point for us…We need to get more cleaner when the personnel does change…you can see the players who came on changed the game, getting into different spaces. Chloe’s just a ball of energy that gets her into such good positions.” The table makes slightly healthier reading for Arsenal. It really was a screamer from Chloe Lacasse. Full-time: Manchester United 2-2 Arsenal That it’s the final whistle. A WSL classic that either team could have won. A tale of subs, with Malard putting United 2-1 up and Lacasse notching a beauty to level. Arsenal have their first point of the season, and there is work to do but they have talent. Manchester United were handed two gifts, D’Angelo the Arsenal goalie having a difficult game but will feel that one got away from them even if Arsenal showed off so much class. 90+5 min: Arsenal want another. Was Caitlin Foord fouled in the United area? It briefly looked like she might have been. The referee waves play on. Goal! Manchester United 2-2 Arsenal (Lacasse, 90+4) Oh what a goal! The Canadian turns in midfield, moves into space and then launches from distance. Not even Mary Earps can get to that one. It’s beyond her wingspan. 90+3 min: United back in numbers….can they hold on? 90+2 min: Space opening up for Arsenal. United look tired from their efforts. 90+1 min: McCabe sees the time and space to shoot, on to her favourite left, but cannot hit the target. 90 min: Russo pirouettes and gets a cross in, but Mary Earps has read the angle. Then Foord has a shot blocked. United sitting back as Arsenal push on. Six minutes more will be added on. 88 min: Foord slips in Maanum, and she nets, only for the linesman to rule correctly that it was offside. Jonas Eidevall doesn’t agree but there was no VAR to give the wrong decision. 87 min: Maanum, with players either side, decides to shoot from distance and can’t beat the first defender. 86 min: Final Arsenal change – Lacasse on for Maritz while bringing a note on with her. 85 min: Rachel Williams, on as a United sub, comes back to help out, and takes no prisoners. 84 min: Arsenal went from hitting the post through Russo to being 2-1 down. It’s been such a difficult start to the season for them. Russo forces yet another corner meanwhile. 82 min: Jonas Eidevall’s face a picture once more, and off comes Jen Beattie for Wubben-Mooy. Both goals highly preventable. Goal! Manchester 2-1 Arsenal (Malard, 81) Oh wow, another long ball causes havoc. D’Angelo comes out, gets in all type of a tangle with her defender - Ilestedt and Beattie – and Malard, the debutant steals in and pokes home. 79 min: Maanum hoofs the ball out of play when there’s a whole queue of teammates waiting in the centre. 78 min: Russo hits the bar! She’s set up by Maanum, the goal gapes but the ball rattles off the woodwork and comes out to cheers from home fans. 76 min: Two United changes – Toone and Garcia off, Malard and Miyazawa on. The Arsenal keeper, D’Angelo, is down, too. Both teams take their chance to have a tactical chat. D’Angelo seems OK to continue. 75 min: Let’s see if United’s penchant for late goals can help them along. 73 min: United have dominated possession, 59% to 41% but it feels like Arsenal have thrown down the far bigger threat when it comes to creating chances. 71 min: United changes – Williams, last week’s winning goalscorer, is on for Geyse, who has tired. 69 min: All Arsenal now? Foord skips through a couple of defenders, only for the ball to cleared. Then Catley shoots, only for the ball to be blocked. Away go United, who attack with a bit more circumspection. 67 min: Another Earps save, Russo was through, beating the offside trap and Earps saves it with her feet. 66 min: Arsenal get a corner after Galton scrambles the ball behind. The ball goes out and back in. Little’s ball, Russo’s header and Mary Earps finally claims the ball. 64 min: Feels like the next goal wins this. It’s very delicately poised. 63 min: A few fouls going in now. The helter skelter pace couldn’t keep going. Foord, another new arrival off the benchm is booked for crashing into George. And another! This time it’s Jonas Eidevall shown a yellow for remonstrating with the referee. 61 min: That change looks to have taken the heat out of the evening but then Katie McCabe flattens Zelem and gets a booking. 59 min: Three Arsenal changes – Codina, Blackstenius, Palova off. Foord, Maanum and McCabe on. Catley meanwhile fires the ball over. 58 min: The new Spain manager, Montse Tome, is in the crowd, and making copious notes. Meanwhile, Katie Zelem is booked for fouling Russo, who had the beating of her. 56 min: Le Tissier has to clear behind as Pelova plays the ball behind. It’s an Arsenal corner. United get that clear. 55 min: Toone sends Galton wide, and the ball is cut back into the middle. All United still and Arsenal are ready to make changes. Jonas Eidevall can be heard asking his forwards to pressure the United defence. 53 min: At last, Arsenal push up, but that only opens up space at the back. Garcia attacks and then Geyse and Catley collide, it’s full-blooded stuff out there. Both get up, thankfully, 51 min: United almost get their goal when Geyse is sent clear, only to drag the ball wide. D’Angelo narrowed the angle and Galton, at the far most, wanted it played square. 50 min: Jen Beattie is having to make a series of incursions. Toon bursts on, and Geyse is played in, only for Beattie to smash the ball into the stands. It’s all United. 48 min: United look to have started with the greater zip. Their fans are making plenty of noise. 46 min: Back the teams come on, and there’s been no changes on either side. United gte it underway. Zelem pings the ball forward – and around the corner – and this time D’Angelo comes out and clears. Charles Antaki: “Has Russo gone off for a cup of tea?” Think that was sent before her late miss but she’s been digging around on the wings, in a rather unfamiliar position. Jonas Eidevall has a lot of talent to squeeze into one team. It’s not quite happening just yet. Half-time: Manchester United 1-1 Arsenal One hell of a half, that. Really good in that neither got on top of the other. Plenty of chances, too. A fine goal from Blackstenius and though United’s equaliser came as a result of a mistake, they’ve been well worth being level. All to play for, and more excitement to come, hopefully. 45+4 min: United have a corner, drilled in by Zelem and headed over George. Another big chance going begging…it’s the last of the half. 45+2 min: Four minutes added on by the way, and it’s not slowing down as the break nears. 45+1 min: Russo’s first chance, the ball dropping to her from Catley’s headed clearance, and it’s boomed over the bar. She might perhaps have done better with that.