Manchester United v Liverpool, Chelsea v Brighton and more: WSL clockwatch – live

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As well as kick-off coming up in five minutes for United v Liverpool, the team news of four other clubs will be announced. I will bring you those updates as quickly as I can.

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Liverpool boss Matt Beard said of today’s game via the club website: “Manchester United have been a bit up and down lately but I do think there has been a lot of unfair criticism on Marc Skinner. As always it’s going to be a tight game but it’s one we are looking forward to, it’s similar to the Everton fixture in the sense it’s a game we always look out for when the fixtures come out.”

Manchester United manager Marc Skinner said of Liverpool: “Liverpool are slightly different than they were last season. They’ve always been good, defensively strong, solid defenders of the box. What they’ve added in is counter-attack speed quality. Watching Olivia Smith and watching Leanne Kiernan work together, they’ve been very good. I expect a tough opponent as it always is with Liverpool, with Matt Beard’s teams always. We have to get to our standards quickly. It’s after an international week so I think both managers get their players for two days.”

Photograph: Charlotte Tattersall/MUFC/Manchester United/Getty Images

The team news is in. Both teams will be wearing black armbands in memory of Kath Phipps, a long time employee of Manchester United.

United won’t have Ella Toone involved in the matchday squad as she is out with injury until the new year.

Man Utd: Tullis-Joyce, George, Le Tissier, Clinton, Galton, Riviere, Janssen, Terland, Miyazawa, Turner, Geyse

Liverpool, meanwhile, have no shock inclusions or exclusions with Taylor Hinds leading the side.

Liverpool: Micah, Fisk, Bonner, Matthews, Hinds, Nagano, Shaw, Holland, Enderby, Smith, Kapocs

Preamble

Hello and welcome back to our Women’s Super League coverage, where today we will be bringing you every goal as it happens across the league.

All six fixtures will be taking place as the top-flight returns from international break. The matches taking place today are:

• Man Utd v Liverpool, 12pm (all times GMT)

• Tottenham v Everton, 1pm

• Man City v Leicester, 1pm

• Chelsea v Brighton, 2pm

• Arsenal v Aston Villa, 2pm

• West Ham v Crystal Palace, 2.30pm

The team news for the first fixture of the day has dropped and so stay tuned for updates before the game chaos begins. It also looks as though all six games will go ahead as planned with no weather disruption yet.