That fixture saw us face our rivals for the second time in a week, having lost 2-0 in the first leg of the Women’s Champions League semi-final just days before.

That was Sonia Bompastor’s first defeat as Chelsea manager, and things didn’t start well in the next match, either. A first-half strike from Kerolin had put the Cityzens in front, before Aggie Beever-Jones levelled the scores four minutes into the second half.

When there was just over 30 minutes remaining, the head coach switched things up by introducing Cuthbert in place of Maika Hamano, and with the contest seemingly heading for a stalemate, it was the Scotland international who threw herself at a cross and headed home to send the travelling Blues into delirium.

When we sat down with the Chelsea midfielder this week, the memory of that day was still fresh in her mind.

‘It certainly felt like a big turning point,’ Cuthbert recounted. ‘I think that was reflected in the way that the team celebrated. That win was absolutely crucial to go on and win the league, and it felt like a big moment at the time.

'I'm really proud of that goal. When you score a last-minute goal away from home, there's no better feeling. You can ask anybody - even the fans. Especially at the Etihad, where we had a tremendous away section for that game.

‘Of course, the correct answer would be to say we'd have loved to have done it during the 90 minutes, but I'd take a last-minute goal every day of the week.’

The circumstances heading into the contest will be similar this Sunday. Just like last season, Chelsea come into the away fixture on the back of a tough defeat, this time at the hands of Arsenal.

As last year showed, this team has the ability and the right mentality to bounce back quickly, and Cuthbert will be ready to perform, no matter whether she is named in the starting XI or comes off the bench.

‘That result showed the mentality of this team,’ she continued. ‘At half-time in the previous game in the Champions League, Sonia was absolutely furious with our performance and rightly so. We ended up not managing to claw anything back in that first leg.

‘Then we had to go up there again. You’ve got to dust yourself down after having quite a tough ride of a game, we’d been put through the wringer. And then when I reflect on how we bounced back that weekend... I think we made quite a few changes, so the team that came into the game played really well and I think that's the beauty of a squad game.

‘Everybody will get their moment throughout the season. I started on the bench and then obviously came on and scored, so it doesn’t matter whether your role is as a starter or it's on the bench, you have to be ready. If you're not ready, your moment's going to come and go and you don't want it to pass you by, you want to be able to grab it with both hands. That day I did just that.

‘Last season, I enjoyed progressing in the Champions League. I enjoyed winning the League Cup and of course I enjoyed the last-minute winner. So if we had to give Man City one game out of that four, then we gave them the best one - the one that didn't actually mean much in the end.’

One thing is for sure, this weekend's contest at the Etihad will be one of our most important of the season and you can guarantee Cuthbert and her team-mates will be ready come 2.30pm on Sunday.