An entraining game played out Sunday afternoon at the Easy Buy Staduim when Blues Women progressed to Adobe Women’s FA Cup fifth round by beating Hull City 2-6 . Debuts and goals for three of our new signings in Lotta Lindstrom Shanade Hopcroft & Asato Miyagawa the another goals where from Chelsea Cornet Lily Crosthwaite and Veatriki Sarri made it a comfortable day for Amy and the girls. For Chris Hames Hull City Ladies side, he should be so proud of them at times showed their quality with goals from Ellie Tenser & Sophie Haywood could have made it nervy, but Blues professionalism & are experience got us through the game. Amy just made the one change from the win over Durham bringing in new signing Lotta Lindstrom into the starting eleven.
FIRST HALF
The first chance of the game came for was the opening goal for blues when a Veatriki Sarri corner was headed home by Chelsea Cornet in the second minute a great start for Amy and the girls.
Then a Lotta Lindstrom header went over the bar following a corner in the seventh minute.
Then Rebecca Holloway was so close to get her first goal for the club but it was well saved by Abigail Wallace in the 8th minute.
Hull’s first chance of the game came in the 11th minute when Sophie Haywood’s shot misses the right hand post following a set piece.
Then in the 22nd minute a Veatriki Sarri shot was saved from Abigail Wallace .
Then in the 29th minute a Christie Harrison-Murray header from outside of the box was well saved from Wallace which was heading towards the bottom left hand corner.
In the 31st minute Hull was so close to getting a equalizer when Jessica Tugby-Andrew shot from outside the box was saved well from Adrianna Franch.
But three minutes later Blues doubled the lead with the inform Lily Crosthwaite when her shot in the centre of the box found the bottom left hand corner.
Then it was first goal in Blue for Lotta Lindstrom after she hit the crossbar in the 37th minute with a great finish when her shot found the top left hand corner pass Wallace in the 41st minute.
Blues were dominated and showing the quality and in the first minute of stoppage made it 0-4 when Sarri drilled a right footed shot into the bottom left hand corner and Blues were heading into the fifth round of the cup.
HALF TIME HULL CITY LADIES 0-4 BLUES WOMEN
SECOND HALF
Blues made a substitute at halftime when Blues gave a debut to Shanade Hopcroft replacing Captain Christie Harrison-Murray and two minutes later she got Blues her fifth and a first in a Blues shirt when Lily Crosthwaite tricky play down the wing set up Shanade who finished off from close range.
But in the 58th minute Blues conceded when a set piece found the head of Ellie Tenser to pull a goal back for Hull City Ladies.
In the 71st a great effort from Rebecca Holloway was heading towards the top left hand corner but a fantastic save from Abigail Wallace she couldn’t have came any closer for her first Blues goal,
In the 76th minute a Veatriki Sarri shot was well blocked by the Hull City defence .
In the 80th minute Shanade Hopcroft brought out the best out of Abigail Wallace with her shot heading into the top centre of the goal and tipped it over for a corner.
But in the 85th minute the tigresses pulled another goal back to make 2-5 when Sophie Haywood received the ball from Hope Knight and fired it home into bottom right hand corner pass Franch.
But two minutes later Blues made it six with another debut goal when Ava Baker played it to Asato Miyagawa to fire it home into the bottom left home corner to make it six of the best for the girls in blue and cemented their place into the fifth round of the FA Cup.
In the 90th minute an attempt from substitute Ava Baker was well saved by Wallace.
The last chance of the game came for Blues when Libby Bance right footed shot went over the bar.
FULL TIME HULL CITY LADIES 2-6 BLUES WOMEN
MY THOUGHTS ON THE GAME
A very professional performance from Amy and the girls in Blue we showed are intensity from the get-go scoring in the second minute with Chelsea Cornet heading home from a Sarri corner. I was worried about this game cause the FA Cup always brings these banana skin ties and a few years ago will played MK Dons and left it late to beat them. So, I was really impressed on how professional we were and deserved to go through to the next round of the Adobe Women’s FA Cup. And it was great to see some of our new faces getting off the mark especially a player I got so much respect for in Shanade Hopcroft I think her experience could be key in us winning the title as she has done it for Crystal Palace winning the championship we need players like that when the going gets tough we got players like Shanade Martha Harris who have won the league title to keep are cool head and get the team to focus. Like I said a million times there be plenty of twists and turns from now to the end of the season we need to be consistent starting next week against Portsmouth.
MY PLAYER OF THE MATCH
I have to go for Lily Crosthwaite I don’t know what to say about her another goal and assist today and like I said at the beginning of the season she will be so important for us on the success of the club she is someone I admired at Durham and now in a Blues shirt you can see she is enjoying it and long may it continue well done Lily.
UP NEXT
We will be playing against Portsmouth on Saturday evening and the kick off will be at 17:15pm
STEPHEN GILL KRO
Thank you Stephen for another great blog. I always look forward to your insights after your match reports. Once again the photos from Laura Burton were great, complementing your report.
KRO
Michael Hill