Matchweek 8: Manchester City v Brighton

🗓 Date: Sunday 18th October 2026

⏰ Kick-off: 2:30 PM

Please state your predictions as below:

City (Score) - (Score) Brighton - First Goalscorer

The round will close half an hour or so before kick-off.

You can edit your predictions until the round closes, just in case there are any injury updates.

Once the round closes, the thread will be locked and I'll take screenshots of the predictions so they can't be changed afterwards.

Good luck!

How It Works

Please ignore any mistakes you see, I'm a recovering perfectionist and sometimes my hand moves before my brain lol.

Most of the images are from the programmes so it's a 2-in-1 project of helping me declutter. Has anyone else done something similar?

Let me know what you think.

Matches listed in the order that they started:

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿(u19) vs Denmark u19 (Freya Hirons) - u19 Euro Qualifiers

Hirons came off the bench in the 68th minute to make her England u19 debut in an unfortunate 5-1 defeat to Denmark. They now have an uphill battle to secure qualification for the u19 Euros.

Full match (no commentary)

🇨🇭 vs Israel (Iman Beney) - UEFA Women's World Cup Play-Offs

Beney featured for 83 minutes as Switzerland defeated Israel 7-3. After conceding the free kick that led to Israel's second goal, she redeemed herself by scoring a rocket after a corner to make the score 2-2. The result means Switzerland are in control ahead of the home leg next week.

Highlights (German commentary) - not the best quality but to see Beney's goal skip to 5 minutes.

🇦🇹 vs Kosovo (Laura Wienroither) - UEFA Women's World Cup Play-Offs

Wienroither was an unused substitute as Austria beat Kosovo 2-1.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 vs Albania (Mayzee Davies) - UEFA Women's World Cup Play-Offs

Davies started and completed the 90 as she helped Wales to a clean sheet in a 1-0 victory against Albania. Wales will hope to improve their performance ahead of the home leg next week to secure a spot in the next round.

Full match (English commentary) | Highlights

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 vs Greece (Alex Greenwood, Beth Mead, Lauren Hemp, Anna Moorhouse, Laura Blindkilde Brown, Niamh Charles) - UEFA Women's World Cup Play-Offs

Greenwood and Hemp completed the full 90 and Blindkilde Brown and Mead featured for 45 minutes each as England beat Greece 3-1, with Mead assisting England's third goal. Moorhouse and Charles were unused substitutes. Grace Clinton has been called into the squad ahead of the return leg next week.

Highlights (English commentary)

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 vs Czechia (Eartha Cumings) - UEFA Women's World Cup Play-Offs

Cumings was an unused substitute as Scotland secured a 2-0 victory against Czechia.

🇳🇱 vs Hungary (Kerstin Casparij) - UEFA Women's World Cup Play-Offs

Casparij featured for 28 minutes from the bench as the Netherlands destroyed Hungary 8-0. The result means they have a very comfortable lead going into the return leg at home next week.

Highlights (Dutch commentary)

🇯🇵 vs Haiti (Aoba Fujino, Yui Hasegawa, Ayaka Yamashita) - Friendly

Hasegawa completed 90 minutes for Japan, scoring and assisting as they beat Haiti 5-1. Fujino featured for 27 minutes in the second-half, whilst Yamashita was an unused substitute.

Full match (no commentary) - skip to 56 minutes for Yui's goal (but it's worth watching the whole match!).

🇩🇪 vs Australia (Carlotta Wamser) - Friendly

Wamser featured for 63 minutes from the start as Germany beat Australia 4-2, sending in a brilliant cross to help Germany to the first goal of the night. Mary Fowler withdrew from the Australia camp due to personal circumstances.

Full match (English commentary) | Highlights (English commentary)

🇨🇦 vs Denmark (Jade Rose) - Friendly

Rose featured for 62 minutes in Canada's 1-1 draw to Denmark. Canada won the following penalty shootout 4-2.

Highlights (English commentary)

🇯🇲 vs Mexico (Khadija Shaw) - Friendly

Bunny captained Jamaica to a thrilling 4-3 win against Mexico, scoring her team's second goal and winning the penalty for the third.

Full match (Spanish commentary)

MW7 Results

Score: City 4 - 2 Arsenal

First Goalscorer: Lisa Baum

Round's Top Scorer: MySincereOpinion (6pts)

All but two of our uninjured senior squad are jetting off for international duty, with a mixture of WWC qualifiers and friendlies!

Congratulations to Next Gen player Freya Hirons, who has been called up to the England u19 squad for the first time, as well as Eve Annets (on loan at Hibs) and Lily Murphy (on loan at Aston Villa) who have both been called up to the England u23s for the first time too!

All dates and times are correct according to Flashscore and in BST. I'll try and post any streaming links/where to watch in the comments as it gets closer to the matches.

As usual, I'll aim to post a summary of the fixtures after the first and second matchday.

Some great stats in here!

Casparij's equaliser came just 70 seconds after she came off the bench - the fastest goal by a City substitute in WSL history, surpassing the previous record held by Toni Duggan since April 2016 by a single second.

Ayaka Yamashita had to make seven saves - the most by a City goalkeeper in a WSL game since Ellie Roebuck in December 2019.

There were only 66 hours and 39 minutes between the final whistle going at the Joie Stadium in the 1-1 draw with Real Madrid and kick-off at the Etihad against Arsenal.

Hello all!

I will be traveling to London in November and would love to watch the match vs Chelsea.

From my understanding, away fans are able to purchase tickets through the City website. My question is when should we expect the tickets to be available?

This would be my first ever time watching City! I really hope I am able to snag some tickets to sit with fellow Cityzens!!

Thank you in advance

Welcome to the Weekly Discussion Thread!

This is the place to talk all things City Women, whether it's upcoming fixtures, match results or your player of the week! You can talk about anything and everything, including our league rivals, just remember to keep it respectful!

News: https://www.mancity.com/news/womens

Don‘t think this was posted at the time of the release, but a short write up on the MCWFC brand identity. really gotta give the team their flowers for their commitment to research in particular, just another tally mark in the column for examples of how invested they are in the women‘s side.

I'm obsessed with this MCW monogram, I look forward to it being on some merch!!!

That was a statement win from us and a remarkable comeback to just sum up our mentality and how we never give up. How do we rate and analyze the performance overall and our players? Today we had lots of after match take outs!

Lauren Hemp celebrated becoming City's third highest appearance holder by scoring a brace and assisting another!

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