Birmingham are spending plenty of time trying to chip away at Manchester City, who seem to do it easy at the other end themselves.

Captain Steph Houghton with the latest chance. The defender is lurking at the back post, meets a corner from the right and watches it go wide.

Birmingham City might have a huge task ahead of them to salvage this final, but they are not playing like a team panicked by the task.

Ellen White and Freda Ayisi have seen a good amount of the ball early in the second half.

Birmingham are still calmly playing out from the back.

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Freda Ayisi is working her socks off today for Birmingham.

She is strong on the ball again in attack, holds play up nicely on the edge of the box and tries to create something.

More of that needed. Much, much more.

And we are back up and running.

Birmingham with a mountain to climb...

Mark Sampson
England manager on BBC Two

"It's a real tough moment for Marc, his first big game as a manager with a young team.

"He had a quick chat after the third goal and consolidated things, so you never know, he makes a couple of changes at half-time, it's a big occasion, one goal leads to two and then we might have a game on our hands."

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While we are all captivated by World Player of the Year Carli Lloyd, it's a good time to have your say on who you think should be crowned BBC's Women's Footballer of the Year for 2017.

Five players have been shortlisted for the award and voting is now open.

Click on the nominees' names below to view their full player profiles:

• Melanie Behringer (Bayern Munich and former Germany midfielder)
• Ada Hegerberg (Olympique Lyonnais and Norway striker)
• Hedvig Lindahl (Chelsea and Sweden goalkeeper)
• Marta (Orlando Pride and Brazil forward)
• Christine Sinclair (Portland Thorns and Canada forward)

You can vote for your favourite online until 08:00 GMT/09:00 BST on Monday, 15 May.

With just two days left, get busy voting!

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Now, for a change of pace we take a moment to look back at the earliest Women's FA Cup experience of one of the game's pioneers.

Sue Lopez played and won the very first cup with Southampton in 1971, 46 years ago. The striker went onto win eight FA Cups with the Saints. Sportshour asked her what memories are of the first final:

“It was extremely exciting for us. We went up to the old Crystal Palace recreation ground.”

“We couldn’t wait, we were all so excited. There were local press people around and also some from national papers. We hadn’t had that before.”

Listen to the whole interview here.

Mark Sampson
England manager on BBC Two

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"It's difficult because Birmingham are a very young team - but they just haven't got any field position. They just need to get out of their own half and try to get down the flanks."

Sue Smith
Former England forward on BBC Two

"Man City have completely dominated the game and Birmingham have to be more compact and creative in the second half if they have any hope of getting back into this game."

Manchester City are doing it easy at Wembley today.

Carli Lloyd put them 3-0 up after 32 minutes, with their other two goals coming from England internationals Lucy Bronze and Isobel Christiansen.

Apart from a 15-minute spell at the start the match, Birmingham City have been completely outplayed.  

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Manchester City are just hoovering up the ball as they look to maintain that three-goal lead at the break.

We are nearing half-time now and Keira Walsh has some work to do in Manchester City's defence after she loses possession to Ellen White.

She makes up for the error with a no-nonsense challenge.

Sue Smith
Former England forward on BBC Two

"I just think sometimes you've got to play the occasion and Birmingham's lack of experience is starting to tell. Has the occasion got to some of these players? Ellen White is going to have pick them up.

"I think Blues boss Marc Skinner will be saying at half-time, 'you've got yourself into some great positions, but you've just got to do something with it'."  

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The Women's FA Cup final in the past few years has cried out for something special.

Carli Lloyd is supplying it.

Every time she gets on the ball, there is a sense of anticipation.

She starts a neat which eventually finds Lucy Bronze, but the shot is well wide.

Manchester City are not letting up.

Three goals don't look to be enough quench their desire today.

Demi Stokes makes her way up field, the attack is on...

She goes for the spectacular and lifts the ball high wide and all things in between. No harm done there.

Owen Phillips
BBC Sport Online at Wembley

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There was an on-pitch inquest by Birmingham after that third goal. But this game already looks well out of reach and it's difficult to think what they can possibly do to get back in it.

They can't cope with City's movement and ability to stretch play. And City's set-piece superiority and aggressive defending is also stopping Blues from getting any sort of decent spell of possession to relieve the pressure.

Birmingham's fans are not giving up hope though; they are still making a decent amount of noise despite their team's horrible start. 

Now, as we collect our thoughts for a moment we can rewind to the third goal.

It was typical of this game so far. Manchester City attacking in fierce waves.

Melissa Lawley had forced Ann-Katrin Berger into a save, which led to the corner which ended with Carli Lloyd making it 3-0.

Looks like we have some running repairs needed for Manchester City's Lucy Bronze. The left-back seems to have taken some sort of knock to the eye.

A moment's respite now...

Sue Smith
Former England forward on BBC Two

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"Birmingham just can't cope with the delivery into the box. It's a lovely delivery and Carli Lloyd just out jumps them. It's poor defending from Birmingham, you've got to pick the players up."