FA WSL Continental Cup Final Gallery, 23 February 2019

A two-page photographic gallery from the 2019 Continental Tyres League Cup final at Bramall Lane, carrying the reaction of the three people best placed to explain it. Manchester City manager Nick Cushing admits he was starting to think it was one that got away, and calls the win a squad effort that showed the strength and character of a group who won nothing the previous year. Goalkeeper Karen Bardsley, who saved in the shootout, calls it awesome and a goalkeeper’s dream, notes City hit the bar twice and were a little unlucky not to win inside ninety minutes, and says there is no pressure on a keeper in a shootout. Arsenal’s Joe Montemurro concedes City created the chances and that his side played in an un-Arsenal way but found a big heart.