71 min Arsenal are letting Spurs have the ball in the middle third, then countering furiously when they win it. It’s been a textbook gameplan.

68 min: Arsenal substitution Victoria Pelova replaces Mariona Caldentey, who is given a rest with Stamford Bridge in mind.

66 min This game is done. Spurs want to get out of town asap.

Caitlin Foord has scored her first WSL goal since September. Mead found Holmberg on the right with a terrific volleyed flick. She whipped a cross beyond the far post, where Foord – who I think saw the ball late – miscontrolled it slightly away from goal. But she reacted superbly to retrieve the ball and batter a shot on the turn past Kop. Cracking finish.

61 min: Spurs substitution Julie Blakstad replaces Olivia Holdt.

60 min The second half has been a bit of a non-event so far. Arsenal are comfortable and playing in second gear.

57 min: Double substitution for Arsenal Stina Blackstenius and Beth Mead replace Chloe Kelly, who had a quiet game, and Alessia Russo, who did not. She was magnificent.

54 min Little is too unselfish for her own good when she has a chance to shoot, albeit from an awkward angle, and instead tries to find the overlapping Foord. Little overhits the pass and Foord can’t keep it in.

52 min Tandberg runs onto a pass from Wijk and tries a shot on the turn that deflects behind for a corner. Nothing comes of it but Spurs have been a bit more threatening at the start of the second half.

47 min Wijk’s low cross is poked well wide of the near post by Tandberg. She was under pressure from Wubben-Moy and it was no sort of chance.

46 min Arsenal begin the second half.

Half-time substitution Arsenal are bringing on Caitlin Foord for Olivia Smith.

Half-time reading

This is a nice piece on an emerging force in French football.

45+2 min Russo’s 46th shot of the night deflects off Bartrip and through to Kop.

45 min Four minutes of added time.

41 min Arsenal have had 10 attempts at goal, four on target. Spurs, despite some pleasant and purposeful passing, have had none.

40 min An imaginative through pass from Gauspet towards Hamano is crucially cut out on the edge of the area. Gauspet looks a fine player.

38 min Boos from the referees in the crowd when Olivia Smith is booked for a foul on Holdt. Seconds later, Nilden is also booked for a foul on Smith.

34 min Russo runs onto a deft header from Maanum and thumps a shot that is deflected over by the stretching Toga. Good defending.

32 min Spurs are suffering the first-half blues for the second Saturday in a row. They were 5-1 down at half-time against Manchester City before eventually losing 5-2.

29 min “Sometimes watching football can be pure pleasure,” writes Charles Antaki. “Alessio Russo is responsible for many of those sometimes.”

Ridiculous player, and at 27 she has scope to get even better.

Bartrip played the ball back to Kop, who tried to slide a first-time pass to Koga on the edge of the D. Instead she screwed it straight to Russo, who accepted the gift with the minimum of fuss.

19 min Spurs almost strike back when Gauspet, on the left, curls a beautiful ball that flashes right across the face of goal.

16 min Russo gets behind the defence again, but this time her touch is slightly off and Koga is able to make an important tackle.

No matter: she has a chance for the hat-trick seconds later when Maanum picks her out, eight yards from goal, and Russo drives a low shot that is saved to her right by the sprawling Kop.

13 min Bartrip fouls Russo 30 yards from goal and is a bit fortunate to escape a yellow card. Russo has been unplayable so far.

11 min Spurs have actually passed the ball quite nicely at the start of this game. The problem is when they lose it; Arsenal are full of menace in transtion.

Alessia Russo is rampant! Smith slipped a nice pass down the side to put her on goal in the inside-right channel; she still had a bit to do but she walked calmly past Kop and reversed a finish that wrongfooted the covering Spurs defenders and rolled into the far corner. That’s such a smooth, classy finish.

4 min Another shot from Russo hits Bartrip; this time it spins behind for the first corner. From which…

2 min Russo wins the ball high up the field and hits a stinging shot from 22 yards that is blocked by Bartrip.

1 min Peep peep! Spurs kick off from right to left as we watch.

The players walk onto the field on a crisp evening in north London. Looks like a really good crowd. The Arsenal captain Kim Little, who signed a new one-year deal with the club yesterday, looks particularly emotional as she lines up before the match.

Arsenal come into this game in spectacular form: they’ve won their last eight games in all competitions, including two victories over Chelsea and another against Manchester City.

Spurs’ form has been more topsy-turvy. They won 7-3 at Villa in mid-February, beat London City Lionesses in an epic FA Cup penalty shootout but then lost to Everton and City.

Derby weekend has arrived in the Women’s Super League and WSL2. Not one, not two, but six local rivalries will be reignited as the divisions try to capitalise on the men’s international break.

Is it clever to schedule so many of these clashes on the same weekend though, and especially staging three top-flight ones on the same afternoon? Everton host Liverpool, Manchester United welcome Manchester City and Arsenal entertain Tottenham on Saturday, all within the space of six hours. The answer will probably lie in the attendances.

Manchester City need five points to clinch the title after hammering Manchester United 3-0 at Old Trafford.