Manchester City 3-0 Birmingham City
From the tweets of Daisy Wildsmith.
City were exceptionally strong out of the gate, stamping their authority on the match from the very start. Caroline Weir and Jill Scott made some great interceptions.
However, standing in their way, quite literally, was Hannah Hampton in the Birmingham goal, who I believe is one of England’s future goalkeepers. Also impressive for the visitors was Sarah Mayling in defence. For the Sky Blues, Lauren Hemp returned from her international debut in inspired form throughout and Steph Houghton was imperious in defence.
Manchester City’s first real chance came after some beautiful link-up play saw Janine Beckie in, whose effort was narrowly off of the mark. Aoife Mannion’s impressive crossing was also causing no end of problems for the visitors defence to deal with, but in the opening half hour they did deal with it well, until Keira Walsh scored the first goal of the afternoon. It remained 1-0 at the break.
Tessa Wulleart added a second for the Citizens three minutes after the break which effectively ended the game as a contest. Lauren Hemp’s outstanding afternoon continued as she supplied a sublime cross for Lee Geum-Min for finish for 3-0. The outstanding one-two which put Hemp in was a joy.
Manchester City’s comfortable victory sees them continue their 100% start to the Barclays FA Women’s Super League season. Birmingham City remain bottom without a point.
Daisy Wildsmith is a regular contributor to Impetus and she is a Women’s football fan from the West Midlands.
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