SUNDAY 4TH APRIL 1PM KO
WOMENS SUPER LEAGUE
EVERTON WOMEN 3 ASTON VILLA WOMEN 1
5th placed Everton women after that exceptional performance and big win at Brighton last week, had the chance to officially confirm 5th place today if they could beat the bottom placed Villa team who went bottom yesterday due to a surprise massive 5-0 west ham win at Reading and if Man Utd could win at Brighton. Everton were looking for their 1st home win in 4 v a team that they beat 6-0 away in early October which is their biggest WSL win to date with this being only the 2nd top flight game between the 2 after the last 3 wins Everton have had all came away-last time Everton had 3 wins away without an home win was 2012, Villa had lost their last 4 WSL games without scoring with the last team to do that been their neighbours Birmingham last year, while the last 3 meeting with Everton they have failed to score in the the last 3
Everton made 3 change's to the starting line up from the 5-0 Brighton win with MacIver, Graham and Lehmann comming in for Korpela, Stringer and Magill, Gauvin once again returned from Injury to the bench while the away game at villa is Gauvin's only full 90mins league game, also played the full 90 in the cup final, Rebecca welch was the 4th official the day before she will be the 1st women to be in charge of a an EFL game [Harrogate v Port Vale]
Everton have not won 2 games in a row since winning the 1st 4 league games, and on 6mins Everton wanted a pen when Raso's shot was blocked by a villa player with her hand but nothing was given, but the 1st 30mins were pretty even with not much happening bar that Raso shot, Everton were dominating the possession but not doing to much in the final 3rd but Claire Emslie blasted over from outside the box on 31mins, but Everton finally took the lead on 37mins when Captain Lucy Graham headed home though it may have came off her shoulder from close range for her 1st league goal since mid october and her 1st since the man utd cup win in mid December for her 6th in total after a super Izzy Christiansen cross, Everton then had a goal disallowed for offside right on half time when Alisha Lehmann flicked the ball on to Australia international Hayley Raso who taps home at the back post when if she left it it maybe would have counted, but it was 1-0 at Half Time
Everton were awarded a pen on 54mins after Olivia McLoughlin handled the ball, but villa keeper Lisa Weiss saved Lucy Graham's pen very well low down to her left, and Everton nearly payed for it 2 mins later when Sandy MacIver pulled off a great save to stop Freya Gregory shot after she had cut in from the wing she was making her first ever start in senior football, on 64mins Everton were awarded a 2nd pen when Sevecke was brought down by Jodie hutton who's swipe caught the Everton defender, Villa protested but up stepped Izzy Christiansen for the 2nd pen and this time there was no mistake with Izzy going the same way the 1st pen was saved,Sub Simone magill very nearly made it 3-0 on 76mins but the villa keeper made a super save but just 2mins later Magill did make it 3-0 on 78mins when Jill Scott's shot was blocked very well but with Magill stabbing it home, Villa got a consolation in Injury time when a villa free kick was headed home by Chloe Arthur on 94mins, but the final score ended 3-1 to Everton who cement 5th and will end 5th if man utd win at Brighton which is 1-0 to Brighton at Half time to gain only their 2nd win ina row since the 1st month of the season
EVERTON SCORER LUCY GRAHAM
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EVERTON SCORER IZZY CHRISTIANSEN
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SIMONE MAGILL
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ASTON VILLA SCORER CHLOE ARTHUR
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EVERTON TEAM
Maclver, Finnigan, Wold, Sevecke, Pattinson, Graham, Emslie, Lehmann, Scott, Christiansen, Raso
Subs Korpela , Clemaron, Clinton, George, Magill, Sorensen, Stringer, Boye-Hlorkah, Gauvin
EVERTON TEAM
EVERTON SUB ON 66MINS
Magill on for Lehmann
EVERTON TRIPLE SUB ON 88MINS
Stringer, Clinton,& Sorensen on for Scott, Emslie, & Christiansen
Referee: Stacey Pearson
Assistant Referee: Karl Buckley
Assistant Referee: David Reece
Fourth Official: Rebecca Welch
Another good win. Great ball in for the header. I'm assuming Gauvin is injured again as she's been out of the last 2 match day squads hasn't she.