Man City Women through to FA Cup semi-finals after Leicester scare
manchestereveningnews.co.ukManchester City a fright before bowing out of the Women’s FA Cup with a 2-1 quarter-final defeat. The ambitious Championship club, who recently announced they were going full time and appointed former Foxes striker Emile Heskey as their ambassador, refused to accept second best despite falling two goals behind shortly before half time.They earned their reward when Millie Farrow was felled in the penalty area for Charlie Devlin to thump her 78th-minute spot kick high past goalkeeper Karima Benameur Taieb to set up a rousing finale.Sensing the danger, City raised the tempo in the closing stages but there were still moments when a defence marshalled by Steph Houghton had to be on their guard as the hosts put in a tremendous physical effort to.
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