Women's FA Cup semi-final: Everton Ladies 1-2 Arsenal Women
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Arsenal reached their 16th Women's FA Cup final as Louise Quinn's stoppage-time header beat battling Everton.
Danielle Carter had put the visitors in front with a calm, low finish from Heather O'Reilly's right-wing cross.
Chloe Kelly's penalty put Everton level after half-time when Dominique Janssen was harshly judged to have brought down Courtney Sweetman-Kirk in the box.
But defender Quinn nodded in from a corner, sending record 14-time winners Arsenal back to Wembley.
They will face Women's Super League 1 leaders Chelsea on Saturday, 5 May after they beat Manchester City in the other last-four tie.
Arsenal's dramatic victory kept alive the Gunners' hopes of claiming a second domestic cup competition of the season, having already lifted the Continental Tyres Cup in March.
Reaching two finals this term had looked unlikely for English women's football's most successful club prior to Joe Montemurro's appointment in November, but the Australian has overseen a significant upturn in form since his arrival.
Montemurro's side could have won by a greater margin, but Vivianne Miedema fired over from close range and Kim Little dragged a low shot narrowly wide late on, before Quinn snatched it.
Sunday's tie at Everton was shown live on the BBC Red Button and online, with both Women's FA Cup semi-finals being broadcast live for the first time in the competition's 48-year history.
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