(Women’s Super League, Wentworth Park, Wednesday, 26 June 2019)
Clarence
United 0
Hobart
Zebras 8 (Berry
6, 86, Nichols 7, 16, Hulton 23, 60, Kannegiesser 66, Burt 72)
HT:
0-4 Ref: E Rosenzweig
Clarence
United: Vanderniet;
Dixon, Downham, Grzinic, Holmes, Lawler, MacKay, Maundrill, O’Brien,
Clark, Kearney (Subs: Eaton, Kregor, Sims, Breganti)
Hobart
Zebras: Ponting;
Berry, Burt, Delaney, Ferrier, Hulton, Kannegiesser, Mason, Nichols,
Rand, Steventon (Subs: Cook, Gill, Leon)
Photo: Clarence keeper Amelia Vanderniet blocks at the feet of Zebras' Zoe Nichols [PlessPix]
Hobart
Zebras scored four goals in each half to down Clarence United 8-0 at Wentworth
Park tonight in a game that had been postponed earlier in the season.
The
sides will meet again in a league match at KGV Park on Saturday.
Zebras’
Allie Berry opened and finished the scoring in a fine display of goalscoring.
Zoe
Nichols and Lily Hulton also scored a brace apiece, while Danielle Kannegiesser
netted once.
Nichols
proved a handful for the Clarence defenders as her speed, ball control,
trickery and aggressive play wore them down.
Hulton
was unselfish in her play. She might
have grabbed a hat-trick but often chose to pass to a team-mate rather than
shoot. Her pace down the flanks was
devastating and Clarence had no answer to her marauding runs.
Photo: Zebras' Allie Berry works hard to tee up a shot [PlessPix]
Both
halves were played mainly in the Clarence half of the field and the home team
never tested the Zebras keeper. Zebras’
first-choice keeper, Shelley Cook, was on the bench.
Zebras
had more than a dozen corners and Clarence were under continual pressure
throughout the match.
Nichols
cut the ball back from the right for Berry to score after just 6 minutes.
Nichols
hit the second a minute later after a pass from Hulton on the left, while
Nichols was somewhat fortunate to get her second, which took the score to 3-0,
in the 16th minute. Her shot
was mishandled by Clarence goalkeeper Amelia Vanderniet, who allowed the ball
to slip under her body and roll slowly over the line as she desperately tried
to recover.
Photo: Clarence's Zara Dixon (left) slices an attempted clearance against the base of the post [PlessPix]
Clarence
were lucky not to concede an own-goal when Zara Dixon’s attempted clearance
sliced off her boot and came back into play off the base of the right-hand
post.
Hulton
made it 4-0 midway through the opening half with a superb chip from wide on the
right that nestled in the far top corner of the net. Danielle Kannegiesser had paved the way for
the goal when she switched the ball from the middle to wide on the right for
the advancing Hulton to run onto.
Hulton
and Kannegiesser rifled home excellent goals within minutes of each other early
in the second half to make it 6-0, while Clarence were dealt a blow when
Caitlyn Maundrill suffered a blow to the head at a corner and had to be
replaced. She lay inside the goal net
for several minutes and the game was halted as her injury was assessed. She appeared to be dazed and was eventually
assisted off the pitch. She appeared to
be involved in a collision with team-mate Dixon and Zebras’ Kannegiesser,
neither of whom was injured.
Photo: Zebras' Lily Hulton picks her way through the Clarence defence [PlessPix]
Georgia
Burt scored direct from a corner from the right in the 72nd
minute. Vanderniet got a touch to the
ball, but couldn’t prevent it whistling into the far corner of the net to take
the score-line to 7-0.
Berry
finished the scoring in the 86th minute when she powered home an
unstoppable shot from just inside the box on the left.
It
could have been more, but Clarence keeper Vanderniet made some brave saves,
including a block at close quarters from Nichols, while a Berry shot clipped
the top of the crossbar.
Photo: Clarence's Maddie O'Brien beats Zebras' Zoe Nichols to the ball [PlessPix]
8 comments:
I hope Uni come up next year as the competition needs better teams. Poor old Clarence can’t seem to compete anymore. Sad for a club that was up there only a few seasons ago.
5.14am - is this the same Uni that was battered every week last year ? No thanks !!!
Mate have you seen the standard in the Championship,
Both Clarence and uni put into womens football developing girls over the years.
Every one who has been around the womens game know south hobart have done not a thing for women's football.
Dont even have two womens sides this year .
Next year they will struggle as lots young players there dont like being on bottom of the ladder already putting out feelers
3:51 no worse than what’s occurring at Wentworth this year. Good to rotate the bottom teams each year.
7.24 Been to South a couple of times this year and can’t fault the running of game day. Find it very professional to be honest and well coached. Im quite aware of Souths history but hey they are allowed to change surely?
Uni women have been contenders in recent seasons but clearly had an off season last year. Core senior players moved on, others pregnant, away travelling, etc., so the young ones had to step up into a steep learning curve from youth to Super league. It's paying off now, the young ones have grown a lot. Plus a few of the core senior women came back this year. Playing some good football and scoring a lot of goals! They've found their rhythm again.
Mr or Ms Unkonown clearly shows how much you follow Women's Football, University's worst loss was 6-0 in two games. As opposed to Clarence and South. Also they only lost 1-0 to Taroona twice and weren't belted in any game. So check your stats before you open your idiotic mouth
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