Super strikes

Old Actonians 6-0 Ashford Girls
The FA Women’s Cup sponsored by E.ON
Second Round Qualifying
2pm, Sunday 11 October 2009
Gunnersbury Drive, Old Actonians Sports Club

Spectacular long-range strikes from Suzana Keera and Katie Shorter were the pick of the goals as Old Actonians won this tie convincingly at a damp Gunnersbury Drive. There were three goals in each half as the home side bettered last season’s showing, when they were knocked out at this stage by Haringey Borough.

Actonians were on the case from the start, Heidi Wright and Clemmie Moodie looking lively down the flanks and the tall Carla Williams holding things up nicely in the middle with good close control. They achieved a quick breakthrough, taking the lead on seven minutes after a Williams surge had been blocked on the edge of the box. The ball rolled to Keera who, from a central position 30 yards out, hit a shot that Ashford ‘keeper Dani Best didn’t get near.

Two further goals in the last five minutes of the half allowed them to play a more relaxed game in the second period as the drizzle got heavier under a grey sky. Moodie’s astute pass played in Lachlune Eastman and she kept her cool before thumping the ball into the net via the ‘keeper’s left hand. Then Wright converted a chance at the far post after the ball had pin-balled around a crowded box.

Shorter’s blast from all of 35 yards soared towards the goal like a mortar shell on 68 minutes and Best couldn’t deal with it. Then, in the last five minutes, there were two further Actonian goals as the visitors capitulated. Moodie breezed in from the left to slap in the fifth and Eastman shot along the ground for the sixth after Best had rushed out to block a fierce Williams effort.

Attendance: 15