The Canadian defender suffered her knee injury in last week's league victory against Liverpool, and following further assessment by the club's medical team is now set for a period on the sidelines.

Our head coach said: 'I have sad news to share with you. I didn’t want to talk about it beforehand as we just found out the results this morning, but she did her ACL after the Liverpool game.

'As I said, I'm really sad and I didn't want to talk about that situation before the game because maybe it would take all the focus from the game and I wanted my players to focus on the Man City game.

'Everyone in the club is so devastated about the news. She was performing really well. She is an important player for us, but now this is the situation. We are going to support her as much as we can - players, staff and the club. She's strong and she's OK.'