Aston Villa 0-6 Lincoln City Ladies
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Fouth Round Proper
Sunday 6 January 2008
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The Lady Imps steamrollered their way to the Fifth Round of The FA Women’s Cup on Sunday afternoon by hammering Aston Villa 6-0 at Sutton Coldfield.

A brace of goals each for City’s top scorer Jodie Snelson and left-sided player Kerry Smith, plus one from captain Megan Harris and a debut goal for new signing Carla Ward catapulted the Lady Imps into the next round of The Cup, and blasted their 2008 campaign off to the best possible start.

City’s demolition job was kick-started within the first minute when Snelson chipped the Villa 'keeper to put the visitors ahead within seconds of the whistle, and with Villa still reeling from the shock of the early goal Kerry Smith piled on the pressure in the third minute by chipping the unfortunate 'keeper for the second time to add Lincoln's second.

Smith bagged her second in the 35th minute with a fine header from a Snelson cross and Ward effectively killed the game off on the stroke of half time when she blasted in at the far post from a free kick, to put Lincoln four goals ahead.

Snelson fired in her second and Lincoln's fifth of the day just short of the hour mark, and City captain Harris completed the rout 10 minutes later when she rose above the crowd to head in powerfully from a corner, sending Lincoln through to the Fifth Round, where they will face a home tie with Portsmouth.

 "I was extremely pleased with our performance against Villa," said delighted City Manager Rod Wilson.

"We took the majority of our chances today, and I was particularly happy with the way our youngsters performed.

“Both Tanya Dickinson and Lauren (J Lo) Harden did extremely well and have given me real selection headaches for our next match, while Sophie Barker is really a regular fixture in the starting lineup now.

“I'm delighted for Carla Ward, who has scored her first goal for us yesterday, while I have to say Leandra Little was awesome at centre half - it was also great to see Megan Harris and Kerry Smith getting onto the scoresheet while Jodie was knocking them in for us as she does almost every week.

“What I'm most pleased about is the all-round team performance, it was good to see the disciplined and ruthless way the team took apart what I consider to be a very decent Northern Division side - it bodes well for the rest of the season.”