Match reports 02/03/19
Warrington women's first team had a mixed weekend, beating Bebington 9-1 on Saturday but slipping to a 2-0 defeat against Wilmslow in their rearranged game on Sunday that puts their promotion chances on a knife edge with two games left of the season. Against Bebington they were in a creative mood, passing the ball around with great pace to set up two goals each for Molly Rudd and Laura Hooley. The goals kept flowing, with Steph Rawlins, Ffion Harris, Kate Connolly and Jo Nordovics (2) all finding the back of the net. It was tougher going against league leaders Wilmslow and despite displaying some great attacking play through midfielders Meg Sutch and Ffion Harris, Warrington couldn't find a breakthrough. They kept their formation and strength in defence with the only two goals of the match coming from Wilmslow short corners. Great play from Vicky Stoll and Player of the Match Tracy Jackson who saved numerous strikes on goal.
The men's first team played brilliantly against Didsbury Northern and were unlucky to find themselves on the wrong end of a 5-3 scoreline for the second week running. Ben Vickers' short corner strike gave them the lead as they surprised Didsbury by dominating the early possession. Didsbury came back strong and despite some crucial tackles from Noal Phillpotts and Rob Batey they pulled themselves ahead. Rob Powell got Warrington back in the game when he rounded the keeper to finish calmly after a fantastic aerial from Richard Cook and Simon Mason scored a rebound from a short corner but it was too late for a full comeback.
The men's seconds can be proud of their performance against Winnington Park thirds . They started 442 knowing how effective they are and with a planned switch halfway through the 1st half they went 532. It nearly paid off Warrington bamboozled them and had them on the ropes with Winnington's man of the match definitely the keeper. Unfortunately Warrington found themselves 2-1 down against the run of play. Fatigue kicked in a bad spell of 5 mins they were 4-1 down. This was hard to recover from but the lads worked their socks off. A 6-1 defeat definitely doesn't paint the picture and in their quest for getting the monkey of their backs with an away win they start again next week against Neston.
The women's seconds lost 10-0 away to Deeside Ramblers.
