The midfielder opened the scoring at Leigh Sports Village, with Lily Murphy’s effort on half-time sealing a 2-1 win by cancelling out Millie Turner’s equaliser.
City will now face Arsenal in the semi-finals as the Blues mounted the perfect response to our 4-2 WSL defeat against our rivals on Sunday.
And Coombs spoke about the players’ determination to regain local bragging rights in what was a hard-fought triumph.
She said: “We’re so happy. Especially after Sunday we just wanted to come here, get the win and get to the semis.
“We’re so happy with that. We had so much fire in our bellies coming into today.
“We knew it might not be a pretty performance, but we just wanted to come here and put a few things right that we didn’t get right at the weekend.
“Now we can put Sunday behind us, we’re really happy.”
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