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LCFC Women’s 2020/21 Review: March

A crunch clash with Durham was on the horizon during March, as the closing stages of the FA Women’s Championship season started to come into view.

2021-07-02T17:22:00.000Z

by Sam Jones

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02 Jul, 2021

LCFC Women’s 2020/21 Review: March

A crunch clash with Durham was on the horizon during March, as the closing stages of the FA Women’s Championship season started to come into view.

Sam Jones

2021-07-02T17:22:00.000Z

LCFC Women’s 2020/21 Review: March

A crunch clash with Durham was on the horizon during March, as the closing stages of the FA Women’s Championship season started to come into view.

Sam Jones

2021-07-02T17:22:00.000Z

LCFC Women’s 2020/21 Review: March

A crunch clash with Durham was on the horizon during March, as the closing stages of the FA Women’s Championship season started to come into view.

Sam Jones

2021-07-02T17:22:00.000Z

LCFC Women’s 2020/21 Review: March

A crunch clash with Durham was on the horizon during March, as the closing stages of the FA Women’s Championship season started to come into view.

Sam Jones

2021-07-02T17:22:00.000Z

LCFC Women simply picked up where they left off in February when travelling to face bottom club London Bees at The Hive Stadium early on in the month.

It took 41 minutes for the deadlock to be broken in north London, but once it was, the floodgates opened. Sam Tierney clipped a long ball forward for Remi Allen to latch onto, she found Millie Farrow with a first-time cross and the forward fired home on the half-volley.

There was still time for a second before the break as Farrow turned provider, laying off Lachante Paul, who made a menacing run towards the penalty area and found space to let fly, sending a left-footed effort into the bottom corner.

Paul’s second came just five minutes after half-time with Allen also claiming her second assist of the game. It was almost a carbon copy of Paul’s first goal as she cut inside onto her left and squeezed a low shot past Sarah Quantrill in the Bees’ goal.

January signing Shannon O’Brien then made an immediate impact from the bench, netting her first two goals for the Club within three minutes of each other.

Natasha Flint’s exquisite touch, skill and powerful run towards the box set up Paul, who was denied by the ‘keeper, but former Coventry United forward O’Brien found herself in the right place to convert the rebound from close range.

A hat-trick of assists for Allen was complete when she threaded a pass through for O’Brien, who did the rest herself, turning on the edge of the area, keeping close control of the ball before curling her effort into the far corner.

The 19-year-old also claimed an assist, setting up Flint with an inviting low cross that City’s top goalscorer prodded into the net to make it 6-0.

Leicester saved the best till last however, as Dutch full-back Esmee De Graaf produced a sensational seventh late in the game. Taking one touch to get the ball out of her feet, she then struck a rocket of a shot that arrowed into the top corner for her first Foxes goal.

A week later, it was time to face Durham in a top of the table battle between two teams locked on the same number of points. Leicester travelled to Maiden Castle Sports Park in great form but would be coming up against one of their toughest opponents in the North East.

Losing Allen to injury early on, a cagey opening 45 minutes followed, with neither side wanting to give anything away. Then, with just two second-half minutes on the clock, defender Tierney, yet to find the net in a Leicester shirt, popped up as an unlikely goalscorer.

Hannah Cain’s free-kick was flicked back into the mix by Paul and Tierney managed to swing a boot at the ball, sending it into the net on the volley. It was some finish from the centre-back and a hugely significant goal.

Incredibly, the former England youth international also provided the second goal. Again from a free-kick, this time Charlie Devlin’s set piece, Tierney was able to get her head to the out-swinging delivery at the back post and double the advantage.

That’s how it stayed to move Leicester three points clear at the Championship’s summit, ahead of facing Coventry United on home turf two weeks later.

Although the Foxes had recorded a 9-1 victory in the reverse fixture, they knew it would be a tricky test as the visitors to Farley Way Stadium looked to move away from the relegation zone.

City’s No.20 was the star of the show, scoring both goals in a 2-0 success. The first, on the stroke of half-time, came from a perfectly executed short corner routine, with Cain and Sophie Barker combining before the former fired a low cross that was dummied by Sophie Howard for Flint to guide the ball past a sea of bodies.

She found another left-footed finish for the second, running onto Cain’s forward header, controlling the ball and then hammering it beyond Sue Wood on the hour-mark to wrap up another three points for the hosts.

The Foxes’ March record read: three games, three wins, 11 goals scored and zero conceded, taking the league run to a total of 11 consecutive victories and four successive clean sheets.

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