First home win in close fought encounter

It started as a very wet and miserable day and with Leighton going 1-0 down early on things could only get better.

Hard work from our defence of Andii , Lorna and Rachel kept St Albans at bay ; Jo in goal making some super saves too. Good link up play with Anna and our wingbacks Rhianna and Evans pushing the ball wide and driving the wings. A great ball in from Evans to Shuttle through to Katie, put Mel in for our first goal beating the keeper and making it 1-1 at half time.

A half-time team talk spurred us on with most of the attacking coming from Leighton, not taking any credit away from some great shot stopping saves from keeper Jo. Much to their annoyance St Albans had a short corner disallowed for being too high. LB took advantage of this and inners Shutts and Hannah pushed up. Mel found Cookie who slotted away a rebound off the keeper giving LB the lead for the first time in the match.

Awesome movement from our spritely forwards Lisa , Katie , Sharon and Cookie fooling the St Albans defence finding a defensive foot and getting a short corner for their hard work . Sharon pushing out to Katie held the ball top with composure creating space then slipping the ball back to Sharon who swept in perfectly behind the keeper making it 3-1 to the home side . Grit and determination by every single player held off St Albans right to the end to secure the win .

A truly great team performance was so difficult to find our player of the match , every player got a vote but the last vote decided it and well done to Mel on this occasion , bring on next week !

Katie