Tim Cahill
Former Everton midfielder on Football Focus

Consistency is one thing Everton have brought this season. There’s a buzz about them. The last trophy they won with the girls was 2010 with the FA Cup.

With Everton, it’s really important we talk about what they’re doing for the women’s game. I take my hat off to them.

Everton

Everton striker Valerie Gauvin: "It is going to be an absolutely amazing occasion for us to have this chance to play at Wembley.

"After all you try to achieve as a youngster in football growing up, you work hard for days and occasions like this.

"The form we go to the final with will give us lots of confidence, too.

"We want to give everything we can to perform well and win the trophy. I hope we can do that and make the Club and our fans proud."

Alex Scott
Former England and Arsenal defender on Football Focus

City go in as overwhelming favourites, when you look at the calibre of players and the history.

It’s a tough one to call because they’ve been so inconsistent this season. Do Everton get a reaction from that, or do they get the team that totally outplayed Arsenal in the semi-finals?

They’re so up and down, so Everton go into this game with nothing to fear from Manchester City.

Manchester City

The 2019 final saw Manchester City run out 3-0 winners over West Ham United, in a year when they also won the League Cup. But they want an even bigger haul of silverware this time around.

"We've got the opportunity to go for five trophies this season, two of them being FA Cup competitions in one season," boss Gareth Taylor said.

"We are trying to build a squad that are capable of competing on all fronts - to do that will be very difficult with the high level of competition in the WSL this season and obviously in the Champions League, the level just seems to keep on improving."

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Tom Garry
BBC Sport at Wembley

It's a big call from Manchester City boss Gareth Taylor to change his usual centre-back pairing, leaving Gemma Bonner on the bench and instead starting both of England's left-backs, Demi Stokes and Alex Greenwood. If Greenwood is at centre-half, she'll be up against the strong, physical France centre forward Valerie Gauvin, in one of this final's key one-to-one battles.

As for Everton, it may be six years since they played in this final, but full-back Dan Turner starts today having also played in that final against Arsenal too. Simone Magill, another survivor from that team, is on the bench, while the Toffees third-remaining member of their 2014 final-reaching squad, Gabby George, misses out as she continues her recovery from an ACL injury she suffered in February's fifth-round win at Bristol City.

Both clubs are aiming to lift the trophy for the third time.

The Toffees are in their first final since 2014 and last won the cup in 2010, while City have won both their previous finals, in 2017 and 2019.

Everton beat Championship side London Bees, top-flight Bristol City and Women's Super League champions Chelsea to reach the semi-finals, before a 3-0 win at Birmingham City in the last four.

Manchester City's run started with a 3-2 win at local rivals Manchester United in January, before they eased past lower-tier Ipswich Town, won 2-1 at Championship club Leicester City and then earned a 2-1 win over Arsenal in the semi-finals.

Tom Garry
BBC Sport at Wembley

Wembley may be 6,000 miles from her birthplace on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, but France striker Valerie Gauvin already seems to feel at home with Everton as they prepare for Sunday's Women's FA Cup final.

The 24-year-old has made a big impact in front of goal since signing from Montpellier in August, scoring five times in her first eight games in all competitions, including goals in the cup quarter-final and semi-final.

Securing the signature of Gauvin - one of the biggest names to join the Women's Super League this summer - has been described as a "real coup for the club" by Everton boss Willie Kirk.

But just how good might she be and how did Gauvin, born on a volcanic island east of Madagascar, become an "old school English centre forward" and one of the hottest properties in the game?

Read more here.

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Jorge: Great to see a team like Everton reaching the final. It will only be a positive as more clubs have competitive ambitions.

Richard: Starting Stokes and leaving Bonner on the bench should be a sackable offence.

Rachel: Fantastic to have such talent playing in this country. Hope it's a great game.

Manchester City have already been to Wembley this season.

They lost 2-0 to Chelsea in the Community Shield following goals from Millie Bright and Erin Cuthbert in the second half. Will they have better luck this time?

They are the defending champions of the FA Cup, of course.

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Everton

Everton are unbeaten in their five WSL games so far and are second in the table, five points above Manchester City, whose early-season results have included a defeat at Chelsea and draws with Brighton and Reading.

"The challenge for me is to make sure that we're not happy just being at Wembley," Everton boss Willie Kirk said.

"We now want to go one better and actually, I don't think there's any point in going to Wembley unless you are going to win it.

"[In recent years], it's City winning trophies, Arsenal winning trophies, Chelsea winning trophies. If people can cast their mind back 10 years ago, it was us winning trophies.

"I think 10 years is too long for a club this size and we are determined to get back to the days where Everton were competing for trophies. It would be even bigger, managing to topple one of the teams that are serial trophy winners right now."

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Today's Women's FA Cup final is the 50th edition and it will be unique in a number of ways.

It's the first final available to watch on TV for fans outside of the UK, while it's also live on BBC One for domestic viewers.

There's no fans inside Wembley stadium and it's the first FA Cup final to be held in November.

It's also the first time players have represented more than one club on route to the final - former Everton striker Chloe Kelly starts for Manchester City, while substitute Esme Morgan spent the 2019-20 season on loan at the Toffees.

Everton boss Willie Kirk has named France striker Valerie Gauvin in the starting XI, alongside Australian international Hayley Raso.

Midfielder Izzy Christiensen plays against her former club.

Everton XI: MacIver, Moe Wold, Turner, Christiansen, Egurrola, Sorensen, Raso, Graham (C), Gauvin, Finnigan, Sevecke

Subs: Korpela, Boye-Hlorkah, Magill, Stringer, Pike, Clemaron, Clinton, Pattinson

Graham Taylor has named both USA stars Rose Lavelle and Sam Mewis in the Manchester City XI.

It looks like Alex Greenwood could be playing at centre-back alongside Steph Houghton, while Caroline Weir starts despite arriving back late from international break.

Winger Chloe Kelly also starts against her former club.

Manchester City XI: Roebuck, Stokes, Houghton (C), Kelly, White, Weir, Bronze, Lavelle, Mewis, Walsh, Greenwood

Subs: Bardsley, Taieb, Bonner, Coombs, Scott, Stanway, Beckie, Morgan, Park

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Here we are. It's Wembley, it's FA Cup final day and it's Everton v Manchester City, live on the BBC!

There's an eerie atmosphere at Wembley with no fans present ahead of such a big occasion.

But the teams have been out to inspect the pitch in their suits and we're an hour away from kick off.

Let's go!

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