Man City vs Barcelona LIVE: Latest Women’s Champions League updates

There’s the whistle – a huge cheer goes up. Layzell’s close-range finish the difference against the reigning Women’s Champions League holders.

Two minutes added on. Fowler lines up a shot from range but skies it – that’ll just about see us through to the interval. A tremendous half from City.

Graham Hansen has a first real opportunity to run through and get a shot away – but it’s a weak one and easily saved in the end. Very unlike Barcelona to have had such minimal impact in the final third.

City do then give the ball away trying to play out and they are fortunate to see the offside flag go up. Not the moment to gift an equaliser.

Miedema very nearly opens up enough space to make it 2-0 but Leon makes another formidable block, with Shaw needing some treatment soon after.

Back up and on we go – half-time pretty close now after a great first spell for City.

There’s the opener! Coll, from saving that last chance in brilliant fashion, has absolutely missed everything as she goes to collect the corner which flies to the far post – it’s nodded back across to the goal mouth and Naomi Layzell is there to fly in with a half-shot, half-challenge, wins the ball and prods it over the line!

Massive save from Coll! Another flowing move down the left, Miedema rolls the ball into the path of Park who makes great connection with the shot – and Coll goes flying to her right with a massive palm away!

Shaw surges off down the left this time and is hauled down by Leon – yellow card for the Barcelona defender, once she finishes sitting on the floor protesting that she should have had the foul herself.

Nothing comes of the set piece, but it’s another chink in the armour, another positive for City to take that they can do real damage to Barcelona tonight.

City still on the front foot at every opportunity, Hemp stretching play down the left and Fowler working hard on the right. Barcelona certainly having more chances to push on themselves, but not with any sustained measure and nothing to really trouble City’s back line either.

Just approaching the half-hour mark and it’s seven shots to three in City’s favour, but no efforts on target from them yet.

Another through ball here from Layzell and Shaw is trying to speed in behind the defence – but this time the offside flag is up. City looking early at every opportunity to go behind the Barca back line. Now it’s a cross from Casparij who gets forward from left-back and Shaw leaps, but totally misses her contact with the ball.

City keep coming though and Hemp’s delivery again finds Shaw, but the header is soft and bouncing down to Coll.

What a block! Terrible error as Yamashita comes out, gets nowhere near the ball and it’s an open goal for Pajor it seems…until Aleixandri comes flying in from nowhere and slides the ball away! Tremendous recovery to keep the scores level.

What a start to this game!