Washington Ladies 4 v Newton Aycliffe Women 4
Aycliffe started the brighter and opened the scoring after 5 minutes, a perfect through ball from Jordan set Alex W away, who finished from a tight angle. Aycliffe then went 2 up, this time Alex W turned provider, setting Annabelle away to finish well past the onrushing keeper. Aycliffe were comfortable at this point and then, against the run of play and with the last kick of the half, a speculative shot was saved well by Courtney only for a Washington player to react quickest. HT 1-2.
Washington equalised not long into the second half but Aycliffe took the lead again with a brilliant right footed strike from Meg from just inside the 18 yard box which left the keeper no chance. Washington then levelled again with a shot from distance that was not closed down. Aycliffe immediately responded with a second goal from Meg, but the women couldn’t hold on to the lead and conceded with 5 minutes remaining.
In the closing minutes of the game, Aycliffe hit the bar and the post, but couldn’t quite get the winner. POTM: Kate W, always available to get Aycliffe on the attack, unlucky not to get on the score sheet, a good all round performance. The team were very unlucky against the team sitting top of the league. A bit hard to take only the draw from the match but we need to finish these games off.