The reason for their moment of anguish was James’s second goal of the game, just before the interval. Latching on to a loose ball just outside the Toffees’ box, the youngster sent a rasping drive searing across Tinja-Riikka Korpela in the Everton goal that arrowed perfectly into the keeper’s bottom left-hand corner.
It was the final strike of the afternoon, capping a marvellous, spritely comeback for Casey Stoney’s side, who had gone behind in just the second minute when Inessa Kaagman’s inswinging corner found the United net via a combination of Simone Magill’s head and Mary Earps’s grasping hands.