Altrincham FC Ladies

Sundays game saw the Ladies fight out an entertaining draw with AFC Stockport in the League Cup, with nearly a fully fit squad to choose from and a debut for our new signing Scarlett Wright things was looking up and indeed we wasn't going to be dissapointed..!

Straight from the off Altrincham took the game to AFC and it looked like we could score or cause problems for their defence at will and in that 1st period Rosie our keeper was nearly a spectator for long periods of time, but credit where its due and AFC kept plugging away and caused a few nervous moments in our defence but they was ably dealt with by our two solid centre halves Louise and Rachel, with Hannah and Kate again spraying passes all over the pitch for players to run onto. Unfortunatley for Kate after about 30 mins she started to feel ill and had to be replaced by Scarlett who bedded in quite nicely and looked like she had played there all season. The half drew to a close with Alty on the attack as per most of the first half.

Half time 0-0

The second half started just as the first had ended with Altrincham clearly on the front foot and forcing corner after corner but with lots of possesion but not to many clear strikes at goal and a good team will always have a period where they come back at you and thats just what AFC did with their outlet mostly being Tracy their forward who is just so quick and can be so deadly with a lot of goals to her credit already this season, going into the last 15 minutes AFC pinned us back in our own half and had a lot of posession but really without creating many clear cut opportunities.

Full Time 0-0

Again a special mention must go to all the players in the team for playing on a very stodgy pitch and producing some lovely football that again is fantastic to watch but we must be more clinical in our shots on goal, a mention must also go to Lauren and Ella playing out of position in defence and also Louise and Rachel who again was commanding in the centre half positions

Up the Alty...!