Manchester United and Tottenham go marching on in League Cup

This was a weekend of derbies in the women's Continental League Cup between the top two divisions, as Manchester turned red, East London turned dark blue and the London Bees stung the London Lionesses.

West Ham managed to claw back two goals in injury time to take the East London derby to penalties, which Tottenham won 4-2, while Manchester United beat Manchester City 2-0 in the second ever Manchester derby, just six weeks after the first.

After goals from Rianna Dean and Josie Green in the second half, Tottenham thought they had done enough to secure the win in the second East London derby in three weeks. But the Hammers produced an injury time wonder as Martha Thomas and Kenza Dali scored two goals in three minutes to make it 2-2. The game went down to penalties and after West Ham captain Gilly Flaherty missed the first penalty the Hammers could not get ahead, losing 4-2 despite their earlier comeback.

Over in Manchester, Katie Zelem, the Reds’ captain who has been a die-hard United fan her whole life, fired her free kick into the top corner to score the opening goal, before Jess Sigsworth made it 2-0 to the home side. City, who have had a stronger start to the season than United and won the last derby 1-0, were down to 10 players for the last 25 minutes after Keira Walsh was shown a red card for her tackle on Hanson.

England's Georgia Stanway returned from injury for City, just as Aoife Mannion announced that she would be out for an extended spell after damaging her anterior cruciate ligament in the Champions League.

The all-London Championship tie ended in a 3-0 win for the London Bees over London City Lionesses, despite London City sitting one place above the Bees in the second division. London City’s manager, Chris Phillips, was sacked this week after just six league games in charge, despite having recorded four wins in that time. The club said they felt a change of direction was needed.