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8th Game: Home versus Manchester Metropolitan

Date: 31st January 2007

Kick Off: 2.00pm

Football is multifaceted, sometimes teams perform atrociously and other times things just work. The eighth game of the season saw the latter for Lancaster Womens football team, it was a fine day for football and it was a fine day of football. The ladies managed to quash their previous two performances to gain a well deserved victory. In high spirits and with the threat of having a very angry captain at the end of the match, the team pulled together and gained the result required to put them back to second place in the league.

Lancaster got off to an extremely positive start, consistently pushing forward and making movements to enable them to keep up an attacking front. Their formation had been slightly altered from the game against UCLAN and they switched from 4-4-2 to 3-5-2. This change gave the team the drive in midfield in order to push forward and attack.

Superb passing and movement by Lancaster enabled Rachel Mckinley to score in the eighth minute from a lovely tee up by Emily Hyslop. After this initial boost Lancaster remained focused and continued in the same positive manner, however Manchester started to regain some kind of poise and also started to push forward but this merely highlighted the talents of the Lancaster defense and every ball was cleared immediately.

Within the 12th minute however Lancaster was two nil up. Nadia Crellin made a fantastic run down the right wing then slotted the ball through to Hyslop who finished the job off and placed the ball in the bottom right hand corner. Four minutes later Lancaster added another goal to the score line as Hyslop tallied up her second of the game with a skillful lob of the keeper. The 19th minute saw Lancaster creep up to 4 goals, brilliant movement by the Lancastrian midfield enable Kathryn Montgomery to beat the keeper and put one in the back of the net.

The second half showed a more consistent Manchester side, they stopped any real flow of play from Lancaster. Manchester managed to intercept movements from the home side which had been relentless in the first half. Lancaster didn’t make as much as they could have from set pieces which held them back from expanding their score line to a double figure. Hyslop was denied her deserved hat trick in the second half, when she went one on one with the keeper but couldn’t quite mange to get round her. In the 80th minute Lancaster were awarded a penalty but again they didn’t manage to convert this.

The game finished 4-0 and although Lancaster didn’t increase their goal count they managed to keep a clean sheet. Manchester managed to gain some composure to up the ante of the game but overall it was a very impressive and well deserved victory for Lancaster.

Special mention goes to Nadia Crellin and Emily Hyslop, both of whom were voted Player of the match.