FA Women’s Premier League Southern Division leaders Cardiff City cemented their position at the top of the table as they recorded an emphatic 9-1 home win over Plymouth Argyle.
It was always going to be a tough task for Argyle who sit bottom of the table with just one win all season.
Their afternoon was not made any easier when Jodie Chubb was dismissed in the first half and, while City’s Kerry Bartlett missed the resulting penalty, the hosts still headed into the break with a three-goal advantage thanks to efforts from Bartlett, Abbie Britton and Gemma Evans.
FA Women's Premier League
Southern Division
Sunday 8 November 2015
Round-up
The Pilgrims did pull one back through Lucy Edwards but Bartlett took her tally for the afternoon to four with Hope Suominen getting two in as many minutes and Michelle Green the other, as Cardiff City rounded off their tenth win of the season in style.
With second-placed Charlton Athletic seeing their match at Lewes postponed due to a waterlogged pitch, it opened the door for Brighton & Hove Albion to leapfrog them in the table.
But the Seagulls were only able to draw 2-2 at West Ham as Shirvae Edwards’ 75th-minute strike earned a share of the spoils.
Sophie Perry had opened the scoring as early as the third minute for Brighton but Giulia Ferrandi earned the hosts a penalty on 20 minutes, which she duly converted.
Charlotte Gurr then netted the visitors’ second but they were unable to hold on as ninth-placed West Ham took a draw.
The result leaves Brighton third in the table, level on points with Charlton but one place below due to their inferior goal difference.
Coventry United are now fourth after they recorded a 3-1 away victory at Forest Green Rovers.
Dani Selmes opened the scoring against the league’s second-bottom side but Rovers rallied and Sammy Hallsworth ensured it would be 1-1 at the break following her goal.
But whatever was said to the United players at half-time seemed to work as they bagged themselves two further goals to seal the match – Jess Lundie netted the second before Selmes doubled her tally for the afternoon.
Portsmouth were left to rue letting a 2-0 lead slip against C&K Basildon as they dropped a place in the table to fifth.
The home side had appeared in cruise control as Molly Clark’s in-swinging corner went straight in on 30 minutes and Sarah Kempson doubled the lead before the hour mark.
But Maegen Doyle halved the deficit for the visitors and the fightback was completed deep into stoppage time when Rebeeca Smith fired in a leveller for eighth-placed C&K Basildon.
The day’s final game saw an all-London affair with tenth-placed Queens Park Rangers playing host to sixth-placed Tottenham Hotspur.
It proved to be a tight affair between the two sides with nothing to separate them at the break.
But Bianca Baptiste got the all important breakthrough midway through the second half as she found the net from an acute angle to earn the points for Spurs, who now move to within a point of fifth-placed Portsmouth.
