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Mary Fowler made her 100th appearance for Manchester City and came on as a second-half substitute in their Women's Super League match against Arsenal. Fowler’s entry helped Manchester City secure a comeback victory with a final score of 4-2 at home, boosting the team to remain undefeated after five matches and leading the league table by two points from Chelsea. Meanwhile, Arsenal, which includes several Australian players like Fowler’s teammates Steph Catley and Kyra Cooney-Cross, is struggling in 10th place, 10 points behind Manchester City.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-05,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Arsenal suffered a significant 4-2 defeat against Manchester City on Sunday in the Women's Super League (WSL), dropping them to tenth place and ten points behind league leaders City. The match saw Arsenal take an early lead but ultimately collapse, with Lauren Hemp scoring twice for City as they staged a comeback from being two goals down. Manager Renee Slegers is under increasing pressure after Arsenal’s poor start; despite leading Arsenal to the Women's Champions League title in 2025, her side has won just two of their opening seven matches this season. Sources at Arsenal maintain that Slegers retains full backing from the club, but she faces intense scrutiny as questions arise about her position and the team’s ability to improve their slow starts to WSL seasons. Meanwhile, Australian player Mary Fowler starred in City's victory, making it her 100th appearance for the champions who continue their dominating start with five wins out of five matches.
Written for “WSL Football News” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 2 other(s) covering the same event.
In short:
Aussie Mary Fowler has starred as a sub in Manchester City's comeback win over Arsenal in the Women's Super League.
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Fowler → star → League
Fowler, making her 100th appearance for City, sparked her table-topping team to a 4-2 home win over the Gunners.
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Fowler → make → Gunners
Arsenal, featuring Fowler's fellow Matildas including Steph Catley and Kyra Cooney-Cross, continues to struggle in 10th place.
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Arsenal → feature → place
Manchester City may be a club in turmoil but Mary Fowler and her teammates have helped offer the beleaguered outfit a hint of a smile as England's women's champions continue their dominating start in the Women's Super League.
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champions → help → League
On Sunday (Monday AEST), Fowler came on as a second-half substitute and helped provide some spark as champions City went on to hammer one of their biggest rivals, Arsenal, 4-2 at home.
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City → come → home
City stays perfect after five matches and still leads the WSL table by two points from Chelsea.
But it is proving a tough time for Arsenal and their three Australian European champion players from 2025 as the Gunners slipped 10 points off the pace in lowly 10th position.
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Gunners → stay → position
Lauren Hemp scored twice for City as they twice came from behind to prevail, with the real spark coming when Fowler — making her 100th appearance for the club — was introduced just after the hour mark.
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Fowler → score → mark
Fowler was joined on the park by Kerstin Casparij and Iman Beney with the home side trailing 2-1.
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side → join → Casparij
Within a minute, Casparij had equalised before Hemp put them in front for the first time nine minutes later and the league's top striker, Bunny Shaw, made it four with her fifth goal of the season.
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it → equalise → season
The dominance in the WSL has been a bright spot for City, which has filed an appeal against an independent commission ruling that found the club guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League's financial rules.
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club → file → rules
The EPL said last week that City had used "sham" commercial contracts as part of schemes to inflate revenue and understate costs by more than 900 million pounds ($1.71 billion) over nearly a decade.
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City → say → decade
For Arsenal, without a win since the opening day of the season, it was a second-straight defeat after losing 1-0 away to Chelsea last week.
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it → lose → Chelsea
It is a difficult time for the Aussie international trio at Arsenal, with Kyra Cooney-Cross just returning to the team on her soccer comeback, Steph Catley having been struggling with injury and Caitlin Foord yet to score this season while being played mainly as a substitute.
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Foord → return → substitute
It was Foord's foraging in the box that forced the mistake which gifted Arsenal's second goal to Alessia Russo.
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which → force → Russo
Yet the Gunners could have no complaints about slipping further adrift as, elsewhere, Chelsea, driven along by Ellie Carpenter in her more attacking vein this season, defeated West Ham 3-0.
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Chelsea → have → Ham
Melvine Malard, Keira Walsh and Maika Hamano all scored for the Blues.
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Malard → score → Blues
It came on a day when London City Lionesses, without the injured Alanna Kennedy — who will miss the Matildas' upcoming internationals against Germany and Haiti — handed out a 6-1 thrashing to Tottenham Hotspur, including a double for Spanish great Alexia Putellas.
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who → come → Putellas
London is now third on 12 points, but Emily van Egmond could do nothing to help Charlton avoid a 5-1 hammering at Brighton as they sought in vain to earn their first point since promotion.
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they → do → promotion
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