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  24th August 2008
Bradford City
WFC 3-0 Middlesbrough LFC
Rosie Havelin 8.
Aimee Driver 22.
Faye Boshell 64.
Bradford City bounced back from
last weeks heavy defeat beating Middlesbrough 3-0 at home on Sunday. Playing an attacking formation, City took
the game to Brough from the start and never took their foot off the gas. New comer Rosie Havelin opened the scoring in the
8th minute sliding the ball past the on coming Brough keeper. Then in the 22nd minute Driver showed
off her talent with a typical Driver run down the left flank, out pacing the Brough right back then cutting inside the area,
a quick look up to set her sights then she pulled the trigger and curled a right footed strike round the keeper hitting the
inside of the right post ending up in the back of the net. City continued attacking the Middlebrough goal throughout the first
half and nearly added to their tally with a fine 25yard strike from Kirsty Russell smashing into the bar. In the second half,
Middlesbrough made a couple of changes and started to play some better football and threatened the City goal on a couple of
occasions but the City defence of Jess Pearson, Dawn Lindley, Alice Thackray and Goalkeeper Jess Mallison stood firm and kept
the Brough attack at bay. City made some changes half way through the second half and changed to a 442 formation. Neely Murrell
played on the left side and created several attacking runs for the City forwards with some great through balls. Then Sarah
Binns dropped into the centre of midfield to give a well earned rest to Kirsty Russell. Clare Fawcett and Faye Boshell caused
mayhem in the Middlesbrough defence all through the match and there efforts paid off when Fawcett went on a solo
run down the left side of the pitch who then played an inch perfect ball across the goal mouth into the running path of Boshell
who didn’t disappoint. Faye slid the ball into the back of the net to make it 3-0 and it
put a lid on the game. City came close to making it four but it wasn’t to be and City picked up a well earned
3 points. Next week City are at home to
Salford LFC. Match point went to Faye Boshell for her outstanding energy up front chasing down every ball and converting Fawcetts
cross into the back of the net.
17th August 2008
Leeds
City Vixens 5-1 Bradford
City
City travelled to Yorkshire Amateurs ground to play Leeds City Vixens for their opening match of the season. City knew
that this was not going to be the easiest match of their long season but were confident to do well. The start of the match
witnessed positive rehearsed passages of play from City with Becky Griggs commanding the centre of midfield and Charlotte
Stuart dictating the play down the right flank putting in some great crosses but the strong attacking tactics from Leeds pushed City back into a very miss-matched defensive
formation. Leeds scored 2 goals in the first half which could have been avoided
if City had of been better organised, but aside from the mistakes the City defence had an awful lot to deal with throughout
the first 45 minutes and did work very hard. The half time chat corrected the formation that City had set out to play from
the start and players started the second half more up beat. Within the first 10 minutes City pulled a goal back through a
typical Clare Fawcett one on one and looked much more organised. For the first time in the match Vixens looked disturbed,
but rather than lose their heads when they conceded they appeared to up their
game and threw everything and everyone forward. Using the wingers they quickly played the ball through to their speedy and
alert forwards time and time again and within a passage of 15 minutes managed to net 3 times and destroy any hopes that City
had of getting back into the match. City kept their heads high and played out the 90 minutes with pride and narrowly missed
out on a couple a close chances to reduce the deficit but Vixens scored in the dying minutes to cap off a convincing win.
If this is going to be the standard of football to come, then City need to pull their socks up and dig in to do well. City’s
‘Principle Healthcare’ Woman of the match award was awarded to Alice Thackray for her outstanding energy levels
and timely tackles when needed. Faye Boshell came close with a great first half performance, after being asked by the coach
to play centre back 5 minutes before kick off. City take on Middlesbrough next Sunday at home and can’t wait to correct the wrongs from this match.
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