It's a rivalry not only due to our recent history, in which we faced them in four consecutive matches last season, but instead it’s long-standing and goes back to when Cuthbert joined the club back in 2017.

Always up for a challenge, our Scottish midfielder looks forward to facing our Manchester rivals on every occasion, including our latest Women’s Super League clash to be played at the Etihad Stadium today.

‘See, to be honest, when I first joined Chelsea, the rivalry was always Chelsea and Man City,’ she explained. ‘That's how I always felt it was. Obviously, Arsenal are always a London rival, but I think for me, at that time, Man City was always the team that made it really difficult for us, and I think we had quite a poor away record there.

‘It's not an easy place to go and we've been fighting at the top together neck and neck for a number of years.'

Although last season’s four contests against the same opponent won’t be repeated this year, Chelsea do travel to Manchester this weekend having only faced the Cityzens on Wednesday last week.

That contest saw us come away with a 1-0 win to reach the Women’s League Cup final, but Cuthbert feels the keys to winning that match will be different to what it took to beat them the last time.

‘They'll be putting everything into it, so we need to take it up another level,’ she continued. ‘I think we saw with the swings of the games last season that when two good teams play each other you find out quite a lot about each other and you can rectify it for the next game, so it's difficult from a manager's point of view. Do you stick or do you twist?

‘I quite enjoy it because I know exactly what my opponent is going to do, albeit they know what I'm going to do as well. It's just having the mental resilience that I’m going to make sure I'm beating my direct opponent every time we play each other.’