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Manchester City Women can climb to the top of the table this weekend, if only for a few hours.

Three points against Bristol on Sunday afternoon will see Nick Cushing's team leapfrog Chelsea and pile the pressure on the current leaders ahead of a tricky tie at last year's champions Liverpool later that day.

It is set up for an exciting last two rounds of fixtures and involves the teams that produced so much drama last season.

Then, Chelsea started the day top but defeat at City allowed Liverpool to take the title on goal difference.

A goalscorer that day for the Merseyside club, City defender Lucy Bronze is hopeful her former club can upset the odds again - and is happy to send encouragement.

"Because it's not in our hands we've got to stay calm and just do what we have to do," she told M.E.N Sport.

"If I'm honest Chelsea have probably got a slightly harder run-in. We've got both our games at home which we love playing at home in front of our fans on our pitch that we've got, whereas Chelsea have got an away fixture before they play their final game at home.

"Realistically there's more chance that they could drop points. Liverpool have struggled a bit with injuries but at the same time it's hard to play on their pitch because it's so different.

"And Liverpool are a team that last year were winning the league and they pipped Chelsea to it. I think there might be a bit of bad blood between those two teams anyway regardless of whether they had anything to play for now.

"I'll be texting some of my old team-mates and telling them to put one in!"

As City look to break new ground on the pitch, Bronze is one of five City players among the first female players to feature on FIFA 16.

The latest edition of the game features the squads of international women's teams, and the novelty has not worn off the England defender.

"It must feel weird to people that we're so mesmerised by it because the men have had it for so long - the likes of [Sergio] Aguero and [Vincent] Kompany are just used to it now - whereas for us I don't think it's something that we ever expected to happen."

Captain Steph Houghton enjoyed giving the game a go with the rest of the England squad last week, and is happy to see the profile of women's football getting another boost.

"When we first played it last week it's very weird to see yourself on screen, passing the ball and being part of the team," she said.

"We played last week at St. George's Park so it was great to see all the girls trying to beat each other, being themselves and trying to take people on.

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"You're trying to wind people up as well. Overall it's great and it's an honour to be a part of it. Hopefully women's football can be part of it for a long time.

"It's a massive turning point and another option for girls wanting to play football, whether that's on a computer screen or on the actual pitch.

"We want to try and inspire people and we've done that and hopefully people can see their role models on the screen and want to try and be a part of them in real life."