Catarina Macario shifts the ball from her right foot to her favoured left to make space for a shot on the edge of the box, and she finds it, but her low, arrowing effort is met by a wonderful Courtney Brosnan save.

Aggie Beever-Jones attempts an ambitious diagonal towards Alyssa Thompson but it's over her head and Hikaru Kitagawa shields it out for an Everton throw in.

More like a mouldy or past its best banana to be honest.

Everton in their banana-ish yellow kit have immediately set up camp on the edge of their own box.

A front-foot start from the hosts as Aggie Beever-Jones looks to run onto a forward ball but her progress is halted by a robust challenge from Ruby Mace.

Chelsea forward Aggie Beever-Jones gets this one started.

Keira Walsh captain Chelsea today with Millie Bright named on the bench for a second straight league game.

She opts for the sides to change ends ahead of kick off.

Chelsea

Chelsea boss Sonia Bompastor, speaking on BBC iPlayer: "We have high expectations, high standards at Chelsea, and I think the game today is really important in terms of results.

"We are playing at home, and having dropped points in the last two games, I think we have two games left until the end of the year, and we have to win them both."

The teams are making their way out onto the pitch at Kingsmeadow.

A reminder that Chelsea need to win here to reduce the gap at the top back to three points after Man City's 3-0 win at Leicester earlier.

During the international break it was announced that Chelsea stopper Hannah Hampton has been voted BBC Women's Footballer of the Year 2025 after a stand-out 12 months for club and country.

The England number one won't be in action today though as she is currently sidelined "for a few weeks" with a quad injury.

Chelsea have scored in all 31 Women's Super League games under manager Sonia Bompastor.

Meanwhile Everton are yet to keep a clean sheet this season – in fact they’ve not kept a clean sheet in the WSL since the penultimate game of last season when they won 2-0 against neighbours Liverpool at Anfield.

BBC Red Button

Everton's trip to Chelsea today is being shown live on BBC iPlayer and the Red Button from 14:15 GMT.

You can tune in any moment now on either of those options or by pressing 'watch now' at the top of this page.

Chelsea

Will today be the day Chelsea’s record Women's Super League unbeaten run comes to an end? After dropping points in three of their last five games the reigning champions need a win today to keep pressure on leaders Manchester City.

While visitors Everton are winless in eight since their 4-1 Merseyside derby triumph at Anfield on the opening day.

Stranger things have happened…

Right, let's turn our attentions to the fifth and final game of the day as champions Chelsea welcome Everton to Kingsmeadow.

It's all over.

Dominique Janssen's superb free kick gets United back to winning ways and returns them to the top three in the WSL table.

West Ham are now winless in six away trips to the red side of Manchester, and stay in 11th spot.

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Agreed, Sam.

Plenty for Marc Skinner to ponder before Wednesday night.

Substitute Fridolina Rolfo runs down the left before rolling a wonderful cross through the six yard box but no one in red can get on the end of it.

We're into four minutes of stoppage time at Leigh Sports Village.

In truth it feels a tad like both sides have settled for the result as is.