Doncaster Rovers Belles made it two wins out of two in The FA WSL with an easy win over Oxford United in a match they dominated.
The Belles might have found themselves several goals to the good at the break were it not for some wasteful finishing.
Jess Sigsworth failed to convert at the end of two separate slaloming runs through the United defence, and skipper Leandra Little put a free header over the bar.
Doncaster Belles 4-1 Oxford
FA WSL 2
Saturday 19 April
Keepmoat Stadium
Oxford punished that profligacy three minutes from the break when Sahara Osborne-Ricketts just about squeezed the ball over the line from six yards after Donny failed to clear a cross.
But Oxford didn’t manage to take that lead into the break after Demi Lambourne picked up Jemma Connor-Iommi’s backpass in first-half added time, allowing Lauren Cresswell to find the top corner from Sue Smith’s indirect free-kick.
Cresswell added her second from another set piece to give Doncaster the lead on 63 minutes, curling a fantastic 25-yard free-kick into substitute keeper Hannah Cox’s top corner.
Rovers’ improvement in front of goal continued with two goals in two minutes as Reanne Thomas found the top corner from Sigsworth’s square ball, before substitute Ashleigh Mills chipped Cox from a tight angle.
Doncaster boss Gordon Staniforth said: "We had a few words to say at half-time about having a lot of possession and not finishing off a lot of the chances but we answered that in the second half.
"The goals were fantastic.
"I thought we were very lethargic and needed to move the ball quicker and although we still had chances, we didn’t convert any of them.
"I’ve just said to Lauren Cresswell that I don’t know where that free-kick came from and she just said ‘well, you’re always asking me to look at the gaps’, but that was a beauty.
"I believe that was Ashleigh Mills’ first goal for the Belles and I hope it’s the first of many because she is a very, very exciting player."
Doncaster Rovers Belles (4-3-3): Hobbs; Cunningham, Roberts, Little, Cresswell; Bright (Mills 61), Lipka (E Johnson 79), England; Thomas, Sigsworth, Smith.
Substitutes not used: Govier, Williams, M Johnson.
Oxford United (4-2-3-1): Lambourne (Cox 58); Mobbs, Lane, Connor-Iommi, Chivers; Osborne-Ricketts (Franklin-Fraiture 73), Hines; Stanley, King, Low (Pinker 83); Allison.
Substitutes not used: Pickett, Fellows, Boxall.
Bookings: Osborne-Ricketts 71.
Attendance: 124
