Ten minutes later and Beverley Yanez opened the scoring for the American hosts in front of a crowd of 4,083, as the ball ran free after Emma Byrne blocked Lindsay Elston’s advance.
Seattle’s Jess Fishlock left the field after 32 minutes, the match being her first since breaking her left tibia last month.
BBC Women’s Footballer of the Year and former Gunner, Kim Little, was substituted at half time but not before she’d had an effort deflected over the crossbar.
The Gunners were awarded a penalty on 64 minutes when Danielle Van de Donk went down under a challenge from Kendall Fletcher and Natalia Pablos Sanchon stepped up to calmly despatch the spot-kick into the bottom corner.
Asisat Oshala might have won it for Arsenal in stoppage-time but fired over the bar from an acute angle, as the first ever match between NWSL and FAWSL teams ended as a draw.
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