Tranmerekat on Tour: Foxes On The Run

Brighton & Hove Albion WFC play Leicester City WFC in the WSL at the People's Pension Stadium in Crawley

The Seagulls host the Foxes 🦊 at the Broadfield Stadium in the last game of the 22-23 WSL season. Brighton have managed to reach safety already but Leicester need to win to stay up. I t's in their hands but if they lose and Reading beat the Chels then the Foxes are going down 👇 to the Championship. Brighton playing for pride but have announced a list of 5 players leaving at the end of the season. This will be the last game for Victoria "skipper" Williams, Megan Walsh, Megan Connelly, Kayleigh Green and Danny Carter. All good players so sad to see them go. 😢 Thank you and good luck for the future. Hope it doesn't prove too much of distraction this afternoon. I'm sure we will see them all at some point today to allow us to give them a good cheer 👏. It looks like a front 3 for the Seagulls with Lee and Katie wide and Terland in the middle but a bit deeper. First time we have seen her use three at the back with Stott, Bergsvand and Morse. Kullberg and Green are wing backs with Zigaotti and Symonds in the middle. Megan is in goal as Lydia is still out. Off we go.

It's all on the line for Leicester and they start like they mean it. It might be the pressure but they could clearly do with some target practice as the shooting is somewhat wide. The football was scrappy but the Foxes were better organised and the Seagulls struggled to keep the ball and make progress. No shots on target in the first half. Reading are 2-0 down to Chelsea so the pressure is off the visitors a little.

The Foxes start brighter after the break and Megan has to make a couple of good saves. The only goal comes from a corner that should have been a goal kick. The Seagulls defence are too slow to respond and it is scrambled home. There are plenty of changes and Julia give Vicky the armband when she comes on to big cheers. There are a couple more dodgy decisions for throws going the wrong way at the same end. Brighton have a couple of good attacks but can't score and the season finishes with a loss. "We are staying up" can be heard from the far corner.

There is a presentation for the players leaving at the end of the season and then a lap of honour. Thanks to all of them; they leave some big boots to fill.

POTM: Today it goes to Megan Walsh who played well and made a couple of good saves keeping the score within reach. Sad to see her go. Her highlight for us was the penalty shoot-out against West Ham where she was awesome and won it with some great saves. 🧤

Scanometer loves this place. Pizza 🍕baked in a wood fired oven and some of the best football chips 🍟going it was yummy as ever. Washed down with luxury hot chocolate ☕ with cream and marshmallows was a great end to the season. 👍

The Seagulls have made good progress under Melissa and today she tried a few different things and the result could have gone either way today. It would have been nice to see the leavers sign off with a win but in the end, it made no difference to either team. Hopefully a busy and productive summer for the Seagulls. 🤞

Met Gully for the first time today and almost got eaten 😨. Bring back Sally please.

That's it, the end of a very long and busy season. 64 matches attended and reported on. From an 11-0 victory to an 8-0 loss and everything in between. Whether it was, sweating in the sun at Crawley, frozen solid at Whitehawk and soaked through at Brentford, it's been great fun. We have been in crowds that numbered from a handful to setting records for both international and domestic club games.

Time for a break now. See you in July.

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