At long last, a weakness has been spotted. Finally, the 100% winning start ends for Manchester City, much to the pleasure of Manchester United, who struck late through Elisabeth Terland to claim a point in a well-contested and at times breathless derby.

Khadija “Bunny” Shaw’s second-half strike – her 91st WSL goal on her 100th appearance in the division – appeared to have settled the game and kept the defending champions top of the table, and it had looked likely to be the same old story, of City finding a way to win a game that was on a knife-edge, because they have the game’s deadliest finisher.

However, Eva Olid’s ever-improving hosts fought back and were good value for the draw, which they eventually earned when Terland found the bottom corner after the ball fell kindly to her in the penalty area.

Olid, in fact, repeatedly said in her post-match press conference that her side had “deserved to win”.

United climbed to fourth in the table, while that late strike meant City dropped to ­second – now…