Everton 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners all but clinch Champions League football with Everton win
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Injury-time penalty gives Arsenal victory over Everton
Arsenal all but secured Women's Champions League football next season with a last-gasp winner at Everton.
Kim Little slotted a penalty with the last kick of the match after Katie McCabe was brought down by Megan Finnigan, who had earlier equalised.
McCabe's delightful chip over Everton goalkeeper Sandy McIver had given the Gunners a deserved first-half lead.
Finnigan became the first player to score against Arsenal in eight WSL matches when she headed Everton level.
The win moved third-placed Arsenal six points clear of Manchester United, who are at bottom side Bristol City on Sunday but have a vastly inferior goal difference.
Needing just four points from their final two games to guarantee Champions League football next season, Arsenal started confidently, with Jordan Nobbs seeing a drive palmed onto the crossbar by McIver before McCabe's fourth goal of the season.
Little also floated a chance just past the post after linking up well with Vivianne Miedema.
But Arsenal's failure to extend their lead looked like it might have opened the door to Casey Stoney's Manchester United when they conceded their first goal since 10 February to Finnigan.
Yet as the game entered the third minute of stoppage-time, the Everton goalscorer was adjudged to have brought down McCabe, and Arsenal skipper Little blasted the spot-kick into the top-right corner of the net.