Manchester City Brighton

In a fortnight where Women’s Super League scorelines have felt more akin to cricket scoreboards, kudos to Brighton for ensuring the top flight retains some semblance of competitive balance.

Hope Powell’s Brighton team offered the best defensive performance we have seen this season, representing the longest any club have kept a member of last season’s top three at bay.

Perhaps the game would have been different if Ellen White’s header, from Georgia Stanway’s fierce first-half cross, had been given as a goal when the ball looked, from the only-available television angle, to be a considerable distance