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The Vitality Women’s FA Cup

Southampton FC Women are one of three FA Women's National
League teams still remaining in the Vitality Women's FA Cup, and they
reached the last sixteen with a 1-0 extra time victory over FA Women's
Championship side Bristol City.
In front of attendance of 3,638 at the St
Mary's Stadium, Ella Morris scored the only goal
of the game in the opening minute of extra time to
take the Saints into the Fifth Round for the first
time (see match report).
The draw has guaranteed that at least
one FAWNL side will be the quarter finals, for
Southampton have been paired with Ipswich
Town, who have been title rivals throughout the
season. The Tractor Girls made it through to the
last sixteen for the second time in three seasons,
thanks to a 1-0 victory away to Newcastle Utd.
Lucy O' Brien has been in good form in recent
weeks and her third minute goal proved to be Southampton FC Women celebrate their winning goal
enough to give Ipswich the win against a plucky against Bristol City (Will Cheshire).
Magpies side.
West Bromwich Albion are the other
side from outside the top two flights in the Fifth
Round, as they came through a penalty shootout
against Exeter City. The Devon side have had a
magnificent season to date in Cup competitions but
a well contested tie was to end goalless and Albion
triumphed 4-2 from the spot.
Albion will be at home again in the next
round, to Coventry Utd who also triumphed on
penalties following a 1-1 draw against Billericay
Town. The game was goalless at ninety minutes,
with Coventry taking the lead during extra time
thanks to Katie Wilkinson. Billericay hit back and
Lucy Jones slotted home a penalty with four
minutes remaining to take the game into the
shootout, where Jay Bradford's side won 4-2 with Georgia Stanway scores against Nottingham Forest to
Natalie Haigh scoring the winning kick. make herself Manchester City’s all time top scorer
Chelsea's defence of the trophy began on (Julian Barker).
Saturday with a 3-1 victory away to Aston Villa.
Guro Reiten gave Chelsea an eighteenth minute lead and Pernille Harder doubled their lead from
the penalty spot on the half hour. Reiten secured the win with her second goal after the break,
before Villa grabbed an injury time consolation through Ramona Petzelberger.
Chelsea will be at home in the last sixteen, to Leicester City who progressed with a
stunning 3-1 success at Tottenham Hotspur. Angela Addison put Spurs in front on the hour
mark and they looked to be on their way to victory until Shannon O'Brien sent the game into extra
time when she equalised with eight minutes remaining. Sophie Howard then put Leicester in front
within a minute of the restart and Esmee de Graaf struck late on to seal one of the best results of
the day for her side.
Manchester Utd safely negotiated their trip to Bridgwater Utd with a 2-0 victory in
front of a sellout crowd at Fairfax Park. Hayley Ladd opened the scoring in the seventeenth minute
but Bridgwater kept themselves in the game until eight minutes from time, when Ella Toone added
the second goal.
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