Brighton & Hove Albion WFC v West Ham WFC in the WSL at the Peoples Pension Stadium in Crawley
The Seagulls face the Hammers ⚒ at the Broadfield Stadium as we head into the last 4 games of the season. The last meeting here was in the Conti Cup game and finished 0-0. The Seagulls won the shoot-out with a Megan Walsh masterclass but were knocked out of the cup anyway. The Irons in 8th on a poor run of form. Hope that continues. Seagulls new manager, Mellissa, is aiming for 2 home wins in a row. Lydia is in goal and then she isn't a she goes off looking like she is in pain at the start of the warm up. Megan steps up into the starting 11. Guro Bergsvand is alongside Morse at the back and Emma Kullberg moves across to leftback. Be good to see if she can use her pace down the wing. It was the coronation of King 👑 Charles 3rd yesterday so we sang the National Anthem flag 👀.
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| Heading for the West Stand |
It starts lively and there is plenty of attacking football from both sides but with little end product. There are lots of offside decisions but we don't want to get told off for commenting on them🤐. There could easily be goal both ways with a bit more quality and composure. The Hammers nearly score but Zoe Morse is on the line to make the final block. Asseyi is doing her normal throwing herself down and screaming to get free kicks. Ref must say something as it stops, the screaming anyway. Jorga is injured in injury time and subbed off for Poppy. Kullburg moves to the right to allow Poppy to slot in at leftback. Level at the break.
Second half is much the same until Lee wins the ball with a sliding tackle, love it, the ball runs to Katie who loops a cross to far post. It goes over Terlands head but Kayleigh Green is there to head it in to the net on 57 ⚽. She tries a knee slide but it suddenly stops dead and she ends up flat on her face. Doh. Strange incident 10 minutes later when Terlend runs into the box and it looks like she is pushed in the back, recovers only to go down again. Her reward is a yellow card. Confused. If anyone knows what that was about please let me know. We were even more confused when Lucy Parker is booked but also won the free kick. Not sure that's how it works but what do I know. It got a bit tense at the end as the Irons ramped up the pressure but the Seagulls defence held firm. Another home win to make it 2 in a row.
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| Good view of the kick off |
Another great performance from Brighton and a deserved win. They were always calm and composed even when provoked by opposition fouling and diving. Mellissa has led them to a complete turnaround in form. It's looking good for the rest of the season. Another 2 points makes them safe. Arsenal at home up next and who knows what might happen there.
POTM: Katie Robinson just keeps getting better and created some great chances.
Scranometer enjoyed the day with one of the nice cauliflower and chesse pies. Very tasty. 8/10 . Chips also as good as ever. 8/10 too.
Ref controlled the game well but there were one or two odd decisions but a watch back may explain those.
See you, and hopefully the Pizza Van🍕, back here on Wednesday.
Love Tranmerekat 🐾
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