{"id":109229,"date":"2019-09-07T15:59:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/09\/07\/manchester-city-v-manchester-united-womens-super-league-opener-live\/"},"modified":"2019-09-07T15:59:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T13:59:32","slug":"manchester-city-v-manchester-united-womens-super-league-opener-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=109229","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City v Manchester United: Women&#039;s Super League opener \u2013 live!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the 3pm BST kick-off at Etihad StadiumArsenal\u2019s Dani\u00eblle van de Donk on the new seasonWSL: Where to watch all the gamesEmail Ben here and tweet at @benfisherj 2.58pm BST The voices inside the dressing room speak. \u201cWe\u2019re super excited to play here at the Etihad and to play a derby against Manchester United,\u201d says Nick Cushing. \u201cIt\u2019s brilliant for women\u2019s football, Manchester City but it\u2019s also an opportunity to get the 30,000 that come today to come to the academy stadium week in, week out. We would love to have 7,000 fans there week in, week out, but we know we have to put in a performance in to make them come back.\u201d Casey Stoney says: \u201cIt\u2019s a great opportunity for us as a football club, for the players, but most importantly for the women\u2019s game. We\u2019re new to the league, we\u2019ve just been promoted but we are going to go out there and give it a real go.\u201d 2.54pm BST Five minutes until kick-off. Abbie McManus spent 12 years at Manchester City across two spells but lines up for United at the Etihad this afternoon. The defender was part of the England squad in France over the summer. \u201cFive years ago, I was training in a park in Wythenshawe and my dad would give me a Mars and Snickers bar and a bottle of Lucozade before a game,\u201d she said in April, before crossing the divide to join Casey Stoney\u2019s squad. \u201cVersatility is a good thing to have but right now, with my age, I\u2019m 26 and I want to cement my role at centre-half. That was a big reason why I chose to move from City to United.\u201d Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/live\/2019\/sep\/07\/manchester-city-v-manchester-united-womens-super-league-opener-live\" target=\"_blank\">Manchester City v Manchester United: Women&#039;s Super League opener \u2013 live!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updates from the 3pm BST kick-off at Etihad StadiumArsenal\u2019s Dani\u00eblle van de Donk on the new seasonWSL: Where to watch all the gamesEmail Ben here and tweet at @benfisherj 2.58pm BST The voices inside the dressing room speak. \u201cWe\u2019re super excited to play here at the Etihad and to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}