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FA Women’s Championship

Liverpool are the winners of the FA Women’s Championship, clinching the
title in style with a 4-2 victory over second placed Bristol City in front of more
than 5,000 at Ashton Gate. Niamh Fahey gave Liverpool a first half lead which
was quickly cancelled out by Aggie Beever-Jones, with
Jaz Matthews restoring the Reds’ lead against her
former club. Katie Stengel made it three after the break
and although Abi Harrison gave City hope by pulling a
goal back, Missy Bo Kearns settled things when she
scored the fourth goal.
Defeat for Bristol City means that the three
chasing teams have a chance again of the runners-up
spot. Crystal Palace are back up to third, Molly-Mae
Sharpe gave them an early lead against Blackburn
Rovers and after Annabel Blanchard had equalised for
the visitors, Coral-Jade Haines scored five minutes later
to hand Palace a 2-1 win, their tenth of the season.
Sheffield Utd now follow on in fourth after
beating Lewes 2-0 at the Dripping Pan. Both of the
Blades’ goals came in the first half, Lucy Watson Watford’s Francesca Ali shields the ball from
opening the scoring and Kasia Lipka added the second, Emily Roberts of Durham Women (Will Cheshire).
five minutes before the interval.
London City Lionesses got back to winning ways with a 2-0 success against Charlton
Athletic and they have a game in hand on the two teams immediately above them. Karin Muya
scored the two goals for the Lionesses, both of
which came in injury time at the end of either half. Lewes 0
Durham Women staged a second half Sheffield Utd 2 (Watson 20, Lipka 40)
fightback to earn themselves a 3-3 draw with -
Watford. Helen Ward gave Watford a first half London City Lionesses 2 (Muya 45,90)
lead, with Dee Bradley levelling matters on the Charlton Athletic 0
stroke of half time. Adekite Fatuga-Dada put -
Watford back in front within a minute of the Sunderland 0
restart and Flo Fyfe quickly added a third but just Coventry Utd 0
-
as it looked as though Watford were on their way Crystal Palace 2 (Sharpe 8, Haines 74)
towards three valuable points, Beth Hepple scored Blackburn Rovers 1 (Blanchard 69)
twice in six minute spell to peg them back and grab -
a point for Durham. Watford 3 (Ward 32, Fatuga-Dada 46, Fyfe 51)
The gap between the bottom two teams Durham Women 3 (Bradley 45, Hepple 59,64)
remains at six points as Coventry Utd also drew, -
their match with Sunderland finishing goalless Bristol City 2 (Beever-Jones 14, Harrison 69)
but stretching Coventry’s unbeaten run in the Liverpool 4 (Fahey 13, Matthews 39, Stengel 59,
league to five matches. Kearns 79)
CHAMPIONSHIP P W D L F A Pts GD
LIVERPOOL 20 15 4 1 42 8 49 34
BRISTOL CITY 19 11 2 6 39 22 35 17 LEADING SCORERS
-5
CRYSTAL PALACE 20 10 3 7 31 36 33 Abi HARRISON Bristol City 15
8
SHEFFIELD UTD 20 9 5 6 31 23 32 Leanne KIERNAN Liverpool 12
LONDON CITY LIONESSES 19 10 2 7 28 20 32 Beth HEPPLE Durham Women 9
8
DURHAM WFC 20 9 4 7 26 26 31 Courtney SWEETMAN-KIRK Sheffield Utd 9
0
CHARLTON ATHLETIC 20 8 4 8 22 17 28 Lucy WATSON Sheffield Utd 9
5
LEWES 19 8 2 9 21 21 26 Chloe BULL Bristol City 6
0
SUNDERLAND 20 6 5 9 21 27 23 -6
BLACKBURN ROVERS 20 5 2 13 16 35 17 -19
WATFORD 20 2 5 13 17 43 11 -26
COVENTRY UTD * 19 3 6 10 15 31 5 -16
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