Messitt makes Ladies feel Bonnie!

The ladies continued with the good form of last week recording a deserved win at Wycombe Wanderers which in truth could have been by a larger margin such were the number of chances created.

On a poor rutted pitch devoid of clear markings, Woodley was in the ascendency from the kick off forcing the home keeper Amy Batkin to push a Mollie Haines shot onto the cross bar that went out of play for a corner which was followed by Mollie Haines shooting straight at Batkin following good work by Nicole Haines and Rosie Page-Smith seeing an effort go wide.

The deserved breakthrough due to this pressure came in the thirteenth minute when Nicole Haines’ pass to Bonnie Messitt allowed the forward to run one on one at Batkin and open the scoring.

This prompted a response from the home side with Emily Sherwood being called on for the first tome and comfortably catching a long range shoot before United continued to pressure the home defence with May Hamblin enjoying her best game for the team on the left flank. Throughout the game Hamblin was a danger being denied in one on ones with Batkin, narrowly failing to get on the end of crosses along the goal area and seeing a first half shot hit the outside of the upright and go out of play for a goal kick.

The closest Wanderers came to scoring the first half was in the thirty fourth minute with a wide shot from distance such was performance of the visitors defence ably marshalled by captain Ellen Surtees.

The second half could not have started better for the visitors with Page-Smith heading home two minutes into the restart from a Surtees free kick.

Eva Thomas shot wide before Messitt competed Woodley’s scoring in the sixty third minute when she lobbed Batkin from twenty yards following a Mollie Haines pass.

Although Woodley did not score again they remained the dominant side with May and Mollie Haines continuing to cause problems on both flanks for the home defence. Wycombe’s only joy on the day was four minutes from time when a shot from the edge of United’s penalty area beat Sherwood to deny the team what would have been a deserved clean sheet.