Bluebelles maintain 100% start to the season

Cardiff Bluebelles 2018/19 First Team Squad

Cardiff Bluebelles 4 Pontypridd Panthers 0

Sunday 9th September 2018

Cardiff University Fields

SWWGL Division 1

After last weekend's SWWGL Division 1 opener saw the Bluebelles first team pick up all three points, the ladies went into Sunday's fixture vs Pontypridd Panthers looking to maintain their good start to the season.

The Bluebelles were in a confident mood ahead of the tie and an overnight downpour gave the freshly cut grass on the Uni Fields the perfect surface for the encounter.

The Cardiff based team started the game on the front foot and showed immediately why they were so dominant last weekend, with the opening goal coming inside the first five minutes. A superb passage of football, where every player touched the ball, saw Caitlin Thomas open her account for the season with a neat finish giving the almost 6ft Ponty keeper no chance. The home side were to then push on and put themselves further in front as Naomi Coulson also netted her first of the season to make it 2-0.

The football on display from the Bluebelles was excellent as they dominated the game with their passing game in full swing . The unchanged back four of Hannah Moger, Shanice Donovan, Holly Jenkins and captain Becky Cornelius, put in another assertive performance to limit their opponents chances and the only shot of the game from the Ponty side was comfortably dealt with by Kirsty Lewis in goal.

The link up play between the midfield trio of Beth O’Donnell, Charlene Hewings and Becca Jones saw the Bluebelles totally dominating the middle of the park and just before the half time whistle, Molly Chapman made it 3-0. A flowing move down the right hand side saw the ball crossed in to perfection, Chapman beat her marker and produced a neat finish to open her account for her new club.

The second half of the game brought much of the same as the Bluebelles continued to dominate possession. Despite creating several good chances, the Bluebelles found the away side's keeper in good form, with the woodwork also keeping the scoreline down. The only goal of the second half came late on as substitute Amelia Davidson scored her first goal in senior football, a moment that was celebrated by the whole squad. A well worked set piece found Davidson who made no mistake from ten yards out.

The tie finished 4-0 as the Bluebelles made it 6 points from 6 and recorded a first clean sheet of the season.

Next up the ladies face their first away trip of the season as they travel to face Goytre United's first team next Sunday. The development ladies, who had no fixture this week, will also travel to the same venue to face Goytre's development squad in a Welsh Women's Development League clash.  The development game kicks off at 12pm followed by the first team's Division 1 fixture at 2pm.

Report by Francesca Howorth, Cardiff Bluebelles Media Officer.

Cardiff Bluebelles kindly sponsored by KCS Transport,  Blue Ridge Canine Academy and Priority Childcare.