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Sky Blues Go Clear

Sydney FC 2–0 Newcastle Jets

Report and EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS from Kris Goman.

On a drizzly Sunday evening, there’s a surprisingly decent crowd to watch Newcastle take on undefeated ladder leaders Sydney FC at Cromer Park in Manly.

**Above:** Tessa Tamplin (left) fires in a cross against Sydney FC yesterday. **Photo:** Kris Goman.

Newcastle kicks off. Straight from the kick off Tara Andrews, in her 100th W-League game, gets the ball at the top of the box and takes a shot on goal. It’s safely in the hands of Jada Mathyssen-Whyman but it’s a bit of a shock for Sydney to start.

It’s back up the other end quickly and it looks like we’ve got a game on our hands as Remy Siemsen starts her campaign. Newcastle defence are all over it though and soon enough the Jets are attacking again.

Rhianna Pollicina is blocked but it goes over to Lauren Allan whose shot goes to the left of goal. Both teams starting off strong.

An attacking push by the Jets sees the first corner to be taken by Gema Simon. It goes to the near post but Alisha Bass heads it across the goal and away from the strikers and Sydney now have possession. A run down the left flank by Clare Wheeler is initially thwarted but the Ally Green does a 1-2 with Wheeler and takes a shot from the left outside the box that’s on target and has Claire Coelho at full stretch to tip it over the crossbar.

Teresa Polias’ corner kick goes to Ellie Brush at the back post who heads it just over the crossbar. Sydney have turned up the heat now and a Jets back pass goes astray for another corner. The corner is cleared and Newcastle’s defence holds strong during an extended period in the box.

At 20 minutes in, Sydney look marginally on top with the game mostly in their half. Pollicina takes a long range strike but it isn’t dangerous and goes straight into the hands of Mathyssen-Whyman.

From the mid field, Polias sends a long ball to Princess Ibini. She flicks it up and heads it onto Siemsen but it’s not controlled and ends up in the hands of Coelho. A few more attacking runs come to little but then Ibini picks it up again in the midfield and dribbles towards the box unchallenged. She passes to Mackenzie Hawkesby who sends it on to Vine at the top right of the box. She calmly lobs a shot from just outside the box that Coelho can’t quite reach and it goes into the left side of the goal and Sydney hit the lead, 1-0. Vine is cool as a cucumber after the goal and waits for her teammates to run up to congratulate her.

Five minutes later and Cortnee Vine brings the ball into the box from the left. A shot is well blocked and rebounds to Green who sends to Siemsen in front of goal. She deflects the ball past Coelho into goal but she’s offside. She’s got a wry smile but accepts it.

Another attack by Sydney ends with a slide tackle by Hannah Brewer. Sydney are making good use of the space and keep switching play from side to side with long passes.

Just before half time, Newcastle transition but Pollicina only gets a very weak shot on goal that is easily gathered by Mathyssen-Whyman who hasn’t been too busy for a while.

Early in the second half, a tussle, or more like a spot of wrestling, between Taren King and Siemsen sees King get a yellow card. There’s been a few clashes where both players have ended up on the deck so far but this is the first yellow of the match. The resulting free kick is taken by Polias and everyone’s lined about two metres from the top of the box.

**Above:** Newcastle Jets’ Taren King (left) goes in for a midfield challenge. **Photo:** Kris Goman.

She slips it low past the wall and Vine runs onto it in the clear with just Coelho between her and a goal. She shoots high to the right and Coelho is able to bat it down with both hands on what looked to initially be a certain goal. Turns out Vine was offside anyway so even if she got it past Coelho, it would have been disallowed.

In another attack, Hawkesby passes through to Wheeler who brings it down the right side and crosses to Siemsen who tries to head the ball but misses. Ibini chases it down and passes to Green who lobs it back to the centre but the Jets manage to clear it.

Ally Green, who’s having a blinder of a game, brings the ball down midfield and gets tackled but does some tricky footwork, a spin and a lunge and then gets a push in the back to eat some dirt but gets a free kick for her trouble. The free kick is in almost exactly the same spot as the one Vine nearly scored from and is set up the same way. This time it ends up out on the far side-line and the throw in results in a corner.

The corner clearance ends up with Simon who passes to Sunny Franco who dribbles down towards the right corner but then switches back to Tessa Tamplin who loses possession. It’s the first time Newcastle have looked dangerous this half.

A long clearance by Sydney ends at the feet of Coelho with Siemsen rushing her. She fumbles with the ball at her feet but clears it. Davis tries to move it on but Ibini has other ideas and relieves her of possession and takes off down the left. Cassidy Davis trails closely behind but gets tangled in her feet and they both hit the deck with a thud. Davis gets the second yellow of the match. King heads the free kick over the crossbar safely for a corner.

The corner is once again the start of a transition play for the Jets and sees Allen running down the left with Sydney in hot pursuit. She brings it into the box and Green has managed to get back and clears it perfectly and quite spectacularly.

**Above:** Lauren Allan crosses into the box for the Jets. **Photo:** Kris Goman.

Harding comes on for Allen. The Sydney goal kick goes to Green who sends it upfield to Coelho with Siemsen closing quickly. The pressure sees Coelho sky the ball. When it eventually comes down from space, Siemsen, Ibini and Tamplin are there. Siemsen chests it to the right and strikes. Coelho has recovered enough to touch it but not to stop it and the ball sails into goal. Siemsen gets her long awaited first goal of the season and celebrates appropriately. 2-0 Sydney.

Almost straight after, Vine sends a perfectly placed cross to Siemsen’s head but it’s deflected to the left of goal.

A ball is sent across from Harding to Tamplin. Green beats her to it and kicks it out. It looks like it deflects off Tamplin lower leg on the way out but Tamplin thinks Green kicked it out and picks up the ball for a throw in. The linesman indicates the other way and then Tamplin just boots the ball sky high in defiance. That goes down like a lead balloon and earns her an immediate yellow card for a moment of stupidity.

**Above:** Sydney FC’s Mackenzie Hawkesby (left) in a tangle with Newcastle Jets’ Sunny Franco. **Photo:** Kris Goman,

Green gets about five more throw ins as the ball goes in and out along the side-line. She gets a ball back to her and starts dribbling but is tripped by Franco and is on the ground face down again. And guess what? It’s another yellow card, this time for Franco. At this stage Newcastle are making some really dumb mistakes. Almost immediately afterwards, Pollicina yanks on Wheeler’s arm to bring her to the ground in a judo style move. It’s a free kick and I think yet another yellow.

Play gets back to relative normal. A ball is sent down the centre and Ibini is on it like a gazelle. She sidesteps King in the box and it’s just her and Coelho when Brewer comes screaming in, and in a sensational slide tackle and clears it out of the box.

With about 12 minutes to go, Brewer brings the ball down the left and sends a long ball into the box, beating the Sydney defence. Mathyssen-Whyman comes out of goal to clear it and then collides with a defender before running back to goal. In the meantime the ball has landed in front of Andrews but Brush is able to clear it in a very close call.

Then Tamplin gets the ball at the top right of the box and has an unimpeded shot at goal. It’s just high and lands on top of the net instead of in it. Newcastle have settled down a bit and finally trying to come back.

Pollicina sends a beautiful pass through the centre of the Sydney defence for House to run onto in the box. She’s onside and it’s just her and Mathyssen-Whyman. The Sydney goalkeeper comes out and throws herself sideways at the ball and gathers it as House leaps over her. Mathyssen-Whyman is suddenly very busy and engaged and proving her worth.

**Above:** Sydney FC goalkeeper Jada Mathyssen-Whyman looks on as her defence tries to tidy up. **Photo:** Kris Goman.

Newcastle continue to attack but can’t make any serious inroads through the Sydney defence. In a final fling, Harding sends the ball across goal from the right. It goes slightly behind House and hits her hip. She’s able to give it to Pollicina right in front of goal. She sends the ball flying over the crossbar instead of into the net for what should have been a sitter.

The match ends with Sydney on a for match winning streak conceding only one goal over that period, although they have only played Newcastle and Western Sydney Wanderers twice each so far. The Sky Blues are now clear at the top of the table as well which should make the fans very happy.

In the end, it was a well-deserved win. Sydney were able to finish and didn’t lose their cool. The same couldn’t be said for Newcastle with four or five yellow cards in that crazy period in the middle of the match.

Teresa Polias got Player of the Match and while she’s always solid, I was a little surprised by this. I really thought Ally Green should have got this award. She had a couple of incredible goal-saving tackles and was all over the field in both attack and defence. A truly outstanding effort.

Teams: SYDNEY FC: Mathyssen-Whyman, Mclean, Green, Tobin, Brush, Polias, Wheeler, Hawkesby, Siemsen, Vine, Ibini. Substitutes: Offer (GK), Hristodoulou, Ray, Toby.

Scorers: Vine 32, Siemsen 61.

NEWCASTLE JETS: Coelho, Tamplin, Simon, King, Brewer, Bass, Franco, Davis, Pollicina, Allan, Andrews. Substitutes: Simonsen, O’Brien, Petratos, Harding, House.

Referee: Kelly Jones.

Attendance: 1,329.

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	GD
Sydney FC	4	4	0	0	9	1	12	+ 8
Canberra United	5	3	2	0	11	6	11	+ 5
Brisbane Roar	6	2	4	0	11	4	10	+ 7
Adelaide United	5	3	0	2	8	7	9	+ 1
Melbourne Victory	5	2	1	2	9	9	7	=
Newcastle Jets	5	1	1	3	7	8	4	– 1
Melbourne City	6	1	1	4	7	15	4	– 8
Western Sydney Wanderers	5	1	0	4	3	13	3	– 10
Perth Glory	3	0	1	2	2	4	1	– 2

Top four sides qualify for the finals at the end of the regular season.

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Chelsea’s Class Too Much For Spurs

Chelsea 4–0 Tottenham Hotspur

by Ben Gilby

Chelsea maintained their position at the summit of the Barclays FA Women’s Super League after overcoming an uncomfortable opening twenty minutes to eventually dispatch Tottenham Hotspur with ease at Kingsmeadow.

**Above:** Sam Kerr heads home Chelsea’s third goal against Tottenham Hotspur at Kingsmeadow this afternoon. **Photo:** @BarclaysFAWSL.

In the team news before the game, Chelsea lost Erin Cuthbert from the squad and kept Academy players Jorja Fox and Aggie Beever-Jones on the bench for the second time in a week.

Tottenham Hotspur boss Rehanne Skinner handed Abbie McManus her debut following her move from Manchester United with Aurora Mikalsen also making her first start in goal.

Spurs were noticeably targeting their early attacks down the left hand side but the first main opportunity fell in the home side’s favour. Fran Kirby played in Guro Reiten down left and the Norwegian cut in and played in a high bouncing ball which Sam Kerr lifted over the bar.

Spurs created two great opportunities in quick succession after the ten minute mark. First Jessica Naz was fouled on the left wing. Kit Graham’s free kick was played in and was met with a header by Ria Percival which fell to Alana Kennedy whose shot was blocked and deflected out to Shelina Zadorsky. Her great curling effort which just went over.

Graham came close seconds later after being played in by Percival and the Chatham born player hit a shot which off the right hand post with Ann-Katrin Berger beaten.

With nineteen minutes played, Graham was unlucky once more as she was played in by Kerys Harrop, turned and her effort forced a great save from Berger.

Chelsea responded with Fran Kirby after a move down the right involving Mjelde and Kerr. The Lionesses’ star, in great recent form hit the side netting on the right hand side.

Spurs conceded a free kick which Reiten played short to Ji. Spurs thought they had cleared the danger, but Ji took possession near the centre circle and found Melanie Leupolz in space. The German ran the ball forward before unleashing a sensational effort into the net from over 25 yards.

Less than ten minutes later, Spurs were further punished for not taking one of their early opportunities when Pernille Harder doubled Chelsea’s lead. Aurora Mikalsen’s loose clearance was gobbled up by Kirby who took the ball down the right, cut in and played a low ball into the feet of Harder who was in space. Abbie McManus tried to head Harder’s shot clear but only succeeded in wrong-footing her own goalkeeper and the ball ended up in the net.

**Above:** Abbie McManus (right) had a mixed debut for Spurs.Here she is seen accelerating away from Pernille Harder. **Photo:** @SpursWomen

Spurs were now finding it extremely hard to maintain possession. This plus a worrying habit of continually giving Chelsea’s stars far too much space directly led to Chelsea’s third goal seven minutes before the break.

Harder was free yet again down the left and played in an inch perfect cross to Sam Kerr who came in to the far post unmarked to nod home the sort of goal that is her trademark for The Matildas.

Chelsea were absolutely rampant at this stage with their wide players causing Spurs major headaches down both flanks. The North Londoners were grateful to hear the half-time whistle before the score line could get worse.

Spurs lined up at the second half with four at the back and five in midfield and it ensured that Chelsea’s momentum was halted in the early exchanges at least.

Seven minutes into the second period, Chelsea earned a corner. Guro Reiten’s ball in was met first time on the volley by Pernille Harder with her rocket headed off of the line by Ria Percival.

Harder had another chance when found by Fran Kirby, but Spurs managed to ensure that the hosts lead was not extended.

Within seconds of coming on to replace Sam Kerr, Beth England won a penalty after her cross in hit the elbow of Kerys Harrop. Up stepped Melanie Leupolz on sixty-three minutes and the German comfortably sent Mikalsen the wrong way as she dispatched the ball right into the bottom left corner.

**Above:** Guro Reiten gets a cross in despite the close attention of Tottenham’s Ashleigh Neville. **Photo:** @SpursWomen.

With just over twenty minutes left, Ji was allowed to dance through the midfield and played a ball out to Hannah Blundell who earned a corner from Harrop which Spurs cleared at the second attempt.

Jessie Fleming had a great chance shortly after when Harder found her on the right hand side of the box. The Canadian fired in a great effort which Aurora Mikalsen pushed away for a corner. Reiten’s ball in was met again by Harder, this time on the half-volley and it went just over the bar.

Chelsea were now once more extremely comfortable on the ball and could have extended their lead further before the end.

With ten minutes left, Sophie Ingle hit a long ball which England nodded down to Reiten who stretched out to get a toe on to ball which Mikalsen did well to hold.

Ji then came close after being played through and toe poked a weak effort against a Spurs defender for a corner which the visitors dealt with comfortably.

Chelsea had two further chances just before the final whistle. First, Leupolz combined with Reiten on the left hand side. The Norway international back heeled a pass to Drew Spence who drove an effort wide. Then, England laid off to Ji who was once more in acres of space. The South Korean sorcerer hit a super effort which narrowly failed to hit the target.

Chelsea’s win was routine in the end, condemning Tottenham to their first defeat under Rehanne Skinner. Their new head coach will no doubt emphasise the importance of taking chances against the very best sides when they come your way.

Teams: CHELSEA: Berger, Mjelde, Bright, Eriksson, Andersson, Leupolz, Ji, Reiten, Kirby, Harder, Kerr. Substitutes: Blundell, Ingle England, Fleming, Spence, Telford (GK), Fox, Beever-Jones.

Scorers: Leupolz 27, pen 63. Harder 29. Kerr 38.

TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR: Mikalsen, Percival, Harrop, Zadorsky, Neville, Kennedy, McManus, Davison, Graham, Addison, Naz. Substitutes: Green, Filbey, Dean, Cho, Quinn, Ayane, Martin, Morgan.

Referee: Sarah Garratt.

Hecher Super Strike Settles See-Saw Battle

Melbourne City 2–3 Brisbane Roar

By Ben Gilby.

A brilliant strike by Mariel Hecher earned Brisbane Roar their second straight win after starting the season with four consecutive draws. The Brazilian’s effort settled a see-saw encounter at AAMI Park and came just three minutes after the hosts levelled from being 2-0 down.

**Above:** Brisbane Roar’s Mariel Hecher celebrates her sensational match winner at AAMI Park. **Photo:** @WLeague.

The first opportunity of the game fell to Melbourne City with Matildas defender Jenna McCormick battling her way into the box before appearing to be tugged to the ground by fellow international Emily Gielnik, but referee Casey Reibelt waved away the Sky Blues’ penalty claims.

As the game entered its second quarter, the Queenslanders became increasingly dominant but a series of great saves from Teagan Micah in the City goal meant that they did not quite get the scoreboard lead that their pressure deserved. A familiar story for the Roar this season.

A golden chance was created when Tameka Yallop played in Gielnik, but Micah did well to save.

They did take the lead on the twenty-third minute when a corner was met by a thumping header by Clare Polkinghorne from the left of the box. The Matildas star didn’t need to jump to make contact and scored despite having City defenders McCormick and Rhali Dobson tight to her.

Six minutes later, Brisbane doubled their lead when Yallop got through and hit a shot which came off the hand of City’s Samantha Johnson and Casey Reibelt had no choice but to point to the spot. Up stepped Gielnik to confidently smash her penalty into the right hand of the net, sending Micah the wrong way.

Micah had better luck against Gielnik shortly after when the City stopper made a great save from the Brisbane star’s curling effort which was heading for the top corner. Gielnik also smashed a shot against the bar before the break.

It was not all Brisbane in the opening stanza as Georgina Worth had to stand tall to deny Chinatsu Kira on several occasions. Dobson also hit an effort against the bar as City looked to hit back.

Within seconds of the second half opening, City got a foothold in the game at last when a poor goal kick by Georgina Worth went straight to the home side’s Kira. The Japanese star slid an instant pass to Alex Chidiac. The midfielder’s effort deflected off Clare Polkinghorne’s shoulder and into the far corner of the net.

**Above:** Melbourne City’s Tyla-Jay Vlajnic battles against Mariel Hecher of Brisbane Roar. **Photo:** @WLeague.

This spurred City on to greater efforts. Chinatsu Kira was denied once more by Worth after being played in by Tori Tumeth.

With just over a quarter of an hour left, Melbourne City finally levelled. Olivia Chance fouled Alex Chidiac and a penalty was awarded. Up stepped Samantha Johnson who slotted it into the left hand corner with Worth diving the wrong way.

Kira had another effort saved by Worth in the aftermath. To City’s chagrin, the rebound came out to Tyla-Jay Vlajnic but her shot was disappointingly far too high.

The home side’s efforts were all for naught as within minutes they were behind again. Mariel Hecher was found on the right and she drove in a superb cross shot in off the far post.

This will be a frustrating loss for Melbourne City – they had the momentum and the chances in the second half to earn a statement win against unbeaten opponents.

Brisbane Roar may have played more games than everyone else, but with no losses in six games, it will take something to stop them being a major player in the Finals now.

Teams: MELBOURNE CITY: Micah, Checker, Vlajnic, Eckhoff, Dobson, Davidson, Chidiac, Palmer, Kira. Substitutes: Barbieri (GK), Allen, Tumeth, Cain, Withers.

Scorers: Chidiac 46, Johnson (pen) 73.

BRISBANE ROAR: Worth, Heatley, Rankin, Polkinghorne, Carroll, Chance, Freier, Dalton, Hecher, Gielnik, Yallop. Substitutes: Aquino (GK), Torpey, Margraf, McKenna.

Scorers: Polkinghorne 23, Gielnik 31, Hecher 75.

Referee: Casey Reibelt.

Attendance: 1,975.

Heroic Heyman Hits Hat-Trick

Canberra United 3-0 Western Sydney Wanderers

By Ben Gilby

Canberra United’s unbeaten run in the W-League season continued as Michelle Heyman hit a first half hat-trick in a comfortable win at Viking Park to draw level with Sam Kerr at the top of the competition’s all time goal scoring list with seventy goals.

**Above:** Canberra United’s superstar Michelle Heyman celebrating one of her strikes against Western Sydney Wanderers at Viking Park. **Photo:** @WLeague

Both sides started the game with new goalkeepers between the sticks. Keeley Richards made her debut for Canberra United, with Sarah Willacy coming in for Courtney Newbon in the Wanderers goal. There is no doubt who will be the more delighted with the outcome.

The side from the capital were in red hot form from the very start. With just three minutes played, Laura Hughes played a short pass into Michelle Heyman on the far left hand corner of the box. She turned and fired a superb effort into the top of the net which Willacy had no chance with.

Wanderers mounted a rare effort on goal ten minutes later when Georgia Yeoman-Dale turned Isabella Foletta and charged down the left and then into the box where she played a lovely pass back to Leena Khamis whose toyed with Jessika Nash before unleashing an effort which was brilliantly saved by Keeley Richards.

Just after the half-hour mark Canberra deservedly doubled their advantage when a ball played over the top by Kendall Fletcher found Nikki Flannery on the left hand side of the pitch. She saw Heyman run between Wanderers’ last two defenders Courtney Nevin and Caitlin Cooper and slotted in a perfect pass to the United striker to notch hers and Canberra’s second.

**Above:** A midfield tussle between Canberra Untied and Western Sydney Wanderers. **Photo:** @WSWanderers.

It got even worse for Western Sydney just before the break when Grace Maher’s corner was easily met by Heyman to tap home her hat-trick goal at the far post following some non-existent Wanderers defence.

The visitors had the first real chance of the second period when Libby Copus-Brown was denied by another impressive save from debutant Keeley Richards.

Sarah Willacy had her own moment in the sun after a disappointing first half when she held Laura Hughes’ rocket.

Teams: CANBERRA UNITED: Richards, Foletta, Ilijoski, Nash, Keir, Fletcher, Hughes, Maher, Heyman, Flannery, Taylor-Young. Substitutes: Jones (GK), Rasschaert, Galic, Koulizakis, Satchell.

Scorers: Heyman 3, 34, 41.

WESTERN SYDNEY WANDERERS: Willacy, Orgill, Nevin, Cooper, Collister, Russell, Hunter, Price, Copus-Brown, Yeoman-Dale, Khamis. Substitutes: Newbon (GK), Gomez, Galea, Matos, Henry.

Referee: Lara Lee.

Attendance: 1,049.

Enigma of Victory

Adelaide United 0-1 Melbourne Victory

By Kieran Yap.

Adelaide entered this game on the back of a three game winning streak and with their only loss coming in the opening game in a seven-goal thriller. The Reds are starting to be whispered about as finals contenders and a win here would be a big step toward that goal.

Melbourne Victory began the round as somewhat of an enigma, they thrashed Melbourne City by six goals but two weeks later lost to Brisbane by the same margin, they were looking to bounce back and welcomed the returning Lisa De Vanna into the side although she started on the bench.

The first half was a cagey affair, neither side was able to gain any lasting momentum, both sides were rushed in midfield and struggled to penetrate each other’s defence. Maria Rojas, Adelaide’s Chilean star was deployed mostly as an out and out striker, trying to get in behind the back four but Claudia Bunge was focused and persistent in preventing Rojas from having an easy afternoon.

**Above:** Melbourne Victory’s Melina Ayres (right) who had an assist for her team’s only goal, takes on the Adelaide United defence. **Photo:** @WLeague.

Victory’s best avenue to goal seemed to be Angie Beard’s marauding runs down the left flank but her opposing fullback Charlotte Grant also had an early moment of magic when she skipped between two Melbourne players to cross early in the game.

Kyra Cooney-Cross had her claim for a spectacular goal denied when her in-swinging corner was dropped by goalkeeper Fryer-McLaren and the ball bounced off the inside of the near post. Victory players appealed and Melina Ayres began to celebrate but the referee and assistants were un-moved, no goal.

Fiona Worts responded for The Reds with a dash down the left and a dangerous cross that caused a moment of panic for Melbourne, the ball bobbled to Chelsie Dawber who sliced the ball over the bar when trying to find a gap between defenders.

Adelaide’s best chance came when Rojas ran onto a long ball and raced into the penalty area with only the ‘keeper to beat. She appeared certain to score and Garton did very well to stay on her feet and close down the angle, Rojas would’ve been disappointed not to finish more emphatically, but it was still a solid save.

The second half was more open, Victory made some position adjustments with Privitelli switching to the right wing to inject some pace into the Melbourne attac. Adelaide defended with determination but struggled to get in sync in the forward areas. One of the most fun things about The Reds this season has been that a different player seems to pop up as a match winner each game, but this week they were struggling to find one. Fiona Worts looked most likely to break the deadlock with a good opportunity that Garton again was equal to.

Eventually Victory played their trump card, Lisa De Vanna came on and immediately showed her class with a clever turn in midfield and some aggressive pressing on the defenders.

Melbourne had been more aggressive in the second half and when the goal came it felt deserved. Angela Beard hit a deep free kick to the far post, Melina Ayres had the vision and technique to nod the ball back across goal and Catherine Zimmerman out jumped two defenders to head into goal off the crossbar.

**Above:** Despite the best efforts of Georgia Campagnale, Adelaide United fell to their first loss since their first game of the season. **Photo:** @AUFCWomen

Not satisfied to defend the slim lead, Victory kept up the attacking pressure, De Vanna found space on the left and whipped in a cross that Cooney-Cross was unlucky not to reach despite a desperate lunging attempt at a diving header.

One goal ended up being enough and Melbourne celebrated their second win of the season. They looked much more like the team of the first two rounds than the one that was overrun by The Roar last week and showed here that they could win in a scrappy tight finals-like physical game. They do look a different proposition when De Vanna is on the park and keeping her fit will be paramount in Jeff Hopkins plans.

Adelaide was beaten, but not easily, they have become a difficult team to play against and the gap between the team’s best and worst form is closing. The moments of magic that had gotten results deserted them but hopefully they return next week, this was the first game of the season they have failed to score and the first game they have not been in a winning position at any point. The bar has been set high by their own performances and they will be aware of their own potential.

Note: I have elected not to address the elephant (or random mouse-clicking, euphonium owning man) in the room and instead just focus on the game… as we expect and demand the broadcasters can find a way to do from here on.

Teams: ADELAIDE UNITED: Fryer-McLaren, Grant, I. Hodgson, McNamara, Walder, Holmes, Campagnale, Condon, Dawber, Rojas, Worts. Substitutes: Grove (GK), E. Hodgson, Hogg, Kirkby, Mullan.

MELBOURNE VICTORY: Garton, Privitelli, Beard, Bunge, Morrison, Barbieri, Martineau, Jackson, Zimmerman, Cooney-Cross, Ayres. Substitutes: Maizels (GK), Doran, Markovski, Zois, De Vanna.

Scorer: Zimmerman 78.

Referee: Rebecca Durcau.

Attendance: 1,105.

The Swedish Scene

@DandalBs brings us his weekly round-up of all the women’s football news from Sweden. This week, the news is dominated by the conclusion of the saga surrounding the future of reigning Damallsvenkan champions Kopparbergs/Göteborg.

Kopparbergs/Göteborg are still claiming the women’s football headlines in Sweden. On Wednesday evening, BK Häcken‘s members, after a long and intense debate, decided by 416 votes to 35 to take over Kopparbergs/Göteborg which will prevent the reigning Damallsvenskan champions from leaving the competition. Everything was completely finalised twenty-four hours later when at their annual general meeting, Kopparbergs/Göteborg accepted BK Häcken’s offer. The club will play in the 2021 Damallsvenskan under the name BK Häcken FF.

**Above:** Bravida Arena, the home of the new BK Häcken FF women’s team. **Photo:** Göteborgs-Posten

Local newspaper Göteborgs-Posten will webcast BK Häcken FF’s first match, a friendly against Jitex, on Wednesday next week. The same newspaper also showed action from the club’s first ever training session under their new name which took place at the club’s 6,500 capacity Bravida Arena.

At the start of the week, the club lost 28 year-old Julia Roddar to Washington Spirit.

It is rumoured that now Kopparbergs/Göteborg’s future is secured, their major financial backer Peter Bronsman will look to invest in a FA Women’s Super League side, with Reading looking like a particularly likely destination for him. Bronsman continues to deny the rumour.

NEWS IN BRIEF:

The schedule for the 2021 Damallsvenskan season has been finalised. The first round of matches will take place on the weekend of 17^th-18^th April. Newly promoted Hammarby will host reigning champions and newly named BK Häcken FF with fellow new side AIK travelling to Växjö. Elsewhere, Djurgården host KIF Örebro, Vittsjö are home to Piteå, Eskilstuna United welcome Kristianstads and Linköping host FC Rosengård.

Kristianstad‘s coach Elísabet Gunnarsdottir has announced that she will not take the position as Iceland’s new national coach. Speaking about the strong speculation linking her with the job, Gunnarsdottir said: “It’s no secret I’m very interested in the job, but the offer came late and I won’t desert a team I have just made plans with.”

Dajan Hashemi, who recently left Hammarby, has signed a contract with FC Nordsjælland in Denmark.

**Above:** Caroline Murray unveiled by AIK alongside manager Anne Mäkinen. **Photo:** Maxim Thoré, Bildbyrån

AIK have signed 27 year-old American winger Caroline Murray ahead of their return to the Damallsvenskan. Murray has played in Finland, Iceland and had spent the last three years in the second tier Elitettan where she played against AIK most recently for Sunnanå.

Anthony Murray: Latest Addition To Sutton United’s Talented Coaching Staff

As part of our sponsorship and partnership with sixth tier Sutton United Women, Impetus founder Ben Gilby spoke to Anthony Murray who will take over the club’s new U21 side for the 2021/22 season. In the piece Anthony discusses his aims for the brand new side he will be putting together over the coming weeks and months.

**Above:** Anthony Murray – the latest addition to Sutton United Women’s hugely talented coaching staff. **Photo:** Michael Brownie.

Anthony has a strong background in London football as he explained: “I’ve had a great career playing youth football for various academies such as Queen’s Park Rangers, Leyton Orient and Charlton Athletic, I played professional football abroad for a season as well as various semi-professional clubs between step one and five. My coaching career started pretty young. While playing academy football, lots of kids on my housing estate around 2004 begged for me to coach them as they wanted to prepare for a tournament and because we went quite far they then went and spoke to the council about getting me onto my FA Level One Coaching Badge. This then saw me coaching at London Tigers FC with their youth development programme and with Westminster Sports Unit.”

This led to Anthony applying for the role of Under 21s manager at Sutton United Women, a club who are making rapid strides up the league system with a record already in their short history of developing a number of hugely talented young players who have come through their ranks into the first team. Not surprisingly, this made the club an attractive proposition for Anthony: “Throughout my playing career, I’ve come across Sutton United many times at Gander Green Lane and it’s always has been a pleasant place to be. Sutton United are a great family and community oriented club and this is what attracted me to be part of the setup. Sutton are all about developing players in house and progressing them up the ranks and that’s what I’m about developing players and giving them opportunities.”

“From the first team down to the youth section the coaches and players are massive on development and giving player opportunities. We aren’t a club with a budget which allows us to go and bring players in so we know we have to go out onto the field to find players and advertise through word of mouth. Sutton United have big ambitions to progress up the tiers and this doesn’t happen unless you have a player pathway from the youth section upwards and putting a RTC and post 16 section in place.”

The club’s current U21s, who will be moving up to U23 level next season with their existing manager Courtney Bartlett and coaching staff have had an exceptionally strong season when they have been allowed to take to the field due to the pandemic – something which Anthony hopes to build on with his own squad when he takes over next season: “Yes, the present U21s have had a great season to date and it would have been amazing to see them continue into the second half of the season to see if they could’ve gone the full distance in winning the league title. Clearly they are a competitive side which can score goals, defend and compete when things get tough games.”

**Above:** Anthony is full of positivity about Sutton United’s new U21 side for 2021/22. **Photo:** Michael Brownie.

“With bringing a new U21 team together next season, you never know what you’ll get, so it’s about seeing what happens at the trials and then work on the team cohesion. The plan is to develop a team that will continue to enjoy playing football but also develop as people, want to compete and become problem solvers in games ready for the first team.”

We briefly alluded to the impact of the pandemic on the season, so I asked Anthony to talk a bit more about how he is trying to maintain contact with his players: “It’s massively difficult at this moment in time as football up and down the country is suspended in the non-elite game, as well as it being difficult for many families and business being hit by the financial side of lockdown and people’s mental health.”

“With the current crop of players I’m working with, we try to keep in touch with them as much as possible via Zoom and discussing various topics around football especially analysing previous matches, providing training programmes they can do at home and also giving them the opportunity to communicate with the staff one to one whether that be football related or things going on at home.”

Anthony is also desperate for the sport to re-start, but he is using the time constructively at present: “ I’m itching to get started. In the background I’m putting many things in place so we can get firing as quickly as possible. The main priority once the government and the FA give us the green light will be to organise trials as well as travelling to matches within and around the Sutton area to see players in action.”

**Above:** Anthony at work at Charlton Athletic Women. **Photo:** Michael Brownie.

In terms of Anthony’s aims for himself and the women’s game in the short to medium term, he is extremely optimistic: “I’ve been blessed to be inspired by some great female players growing up such as Eartha Pond, Rachel Yankee and Lois Roche and to see where the women’s game is now is amazing. We’ve had England v USA in the World Cup being the most viewed female international game, various winners in the FAWSL, a massive pool of young talent coming through at every level. To think the women’s game was banned for fifty years and look how far it’s progressed organically with not much of a budget to work with and games being televised. I feel the women’s game will be showing FAWSL games on terrestrial television, increase in funding at grassroots to professional level and both the FA Women’s Championship and tier three clubs being able to have professional status.”

Sutton United are a club well worth keeping a close eye on – and that is something we at Impetus will be doing over the coming months and seasons.

The Ladies League: Full of Passion, Full of Football and Full of Fun

Ben Gilby spoke to Rose Valente from The Ladies League You Tube Channel and Podcast in Australia. The group describe the podcast as being by the fans “for the fans” and run by “a group of female football fans covering football in Australia. Content is heavily influenced by our passion, videos are low budget, interviews are what the fans want to hear and live commentary via Twitter is unapologetic.”

Rose opened our conversation by telling me all about how the podcast started: “It started how everything else we do started, by a snap decision I made and said ‘who’s in’ to the chat. The Podcast is only new for us, we have been making videos/documentaries on our YouTube channel, TLL TV, as well as writing articles which have now relocated to www.thereserveteam.com.au as we are currently restructuring our organisation. In the Australian football scene, nobody (that we knew of) had a strong dedicated women’s football podcast. There are so many A-League podcasts but no one really focused directly on W-League, which is where we wanted to come in. We started by covering the Aussies abroad and in the WSL and we are now doing weekly shows with the W-League underway. I think the only way to describe it is chaotic. Our podcast is exactly how we are at the pub watching a game. We’re yelling at each other, there’s no order and we always go over time!”

The majority of women’s football supporters in England don’t really appreciate just what a big deal The Matildas are in Australia. This itself is pretty incredible given the fact that in terms of media coverage, football is significantly behind Australian Rules Football (AFL), Rugby League and Cricket. I asked Rose how she thinks the Matildas have managed to gain such passionate support:

**Above:** The Ladies League gang. **Photo via:** Rose Valente.

“AFL is our biggest competition here in Australia as it’s huge. Football is not the number one sport and the sport as a whole is constantly battling for air time within the media. The Matildas have been on the rise and their recent successes and lovable nature has won over Australia’s hearts. There is something very relatable with this Matildas team, they are down to earth and that resonates with the fans. They put everything on the pitch and they play for their shirts. Nike’s creation of the Spew 2.0 Matildas specific jersey for the 2019 France Women’s World Cup was a huge moment for women’s football in Australia. Ex-Matildas remember sewing their badges on, wearing men’s sizes and some not even receiving their own kits. Now powerhouse brand Nike have created an iconic remake of infamous Socceroos Spew (worn from 1990) for the women and well, it’s hard to explain what that means. When I wore my Matildas Spew 2.0 jersey for the first time, I felt so proud of this team and all the Ex-Matildas that brought us to this position.”

With so many members of The Matildas squad now playing their club football in England, I wondered how the FA Women’s Super League is thought of in Australia: “Australians have really been getting around the WSL this season – it probably helps that the W-League has had a nine month off season! Optus Sport securing the rights for the WSL in Australia is great as they have the FA Premier League rights too so it makes the women’s game much more accessible to the existing fans of English football who may not have explored WSL previously.”

With most of the Matildas now playing outside of Australia, I asked Rose what she felt this meant for the W-League in the short to medium term future: “I think it’s going to be an exciting challenge for the W-League. Many thought the league was doomed but many don’t head to State National Premier League (NPL) games throughout the NPL seasons and watch our local talent. From a national team perspective, our Matildas will only get better by playing alongside Miedema, Le Sommer, Pernille Harder etc. Our players heading to bigger leagues only means great things for Australian football however the W-League now needs to decide what type of competition they want to be.”

Another issue that the W-League faces is that, with Australia co-hosting the next Women’s World Cup in 2023, a great deal is needed to grow recognition of the competition in the media and with the public. With only a handful of international players now playing in the competition, it makes life much harder. “There is a lot required to improve coverage and recognition,” said Rose, “but with the ever growing investment in women’s football in this country, we should hopefully make some changes in the near future.”

The appointment of Tony Gustavsson as Matildas head coach (see our piece on the recent Zoom conference with him that we joined in: https://impetus885775742.wordpress.com/2021/01/22/tony-gustavsson-ready-to-take-the-matildas-to-the-next-level/) was met with great positivity by Rose: “It’s great news! I can’t wait until the Matildas can properly start training together and getting some friendlies under their belts. It’s hard to gauge just yet as he hasn’t had a hands on opportunity as of yet but this is an extremely positive appointment and Australia is super excited!”

The next three years is potentially really exciting for the Matildas with the Olympics, Asia Cup and World Cup. I asked Rose what she felt success in this period would realistically look like. “Win win win! Haha but realistically I think the Olympics and Asia Cup will be an insight into what our performance in 2023 will look like and I am hoping Tony (Gustavsson) and the coaching team can learn from any early exits prior to 2023. At the Football Writers Festival we attended recently, Football Australia CEO James Johnson said he wants to see the Matildas win the World Cup at home and I loved hearing that. They have the backing of absolutely everyone. These next two years will be hard work for all involved but I think with the correct investment from our federation, we can take it out because we have the players and we have the coaching staff.”

Whilst the current stars of the Matildas are becoming more familiar to British women’s football fans due to their presence in the FAWSL, I asked Rose who she feels the next generation of stars will be for the national side: “In my eyes, it is Remy Siemsen, Jada Mathyssen-Whyman (if she can stay fit) both currently at Sydney FC and Ellie Carpenter. While Ellie is a huge star and has been part of the Matildas set up for a while now, we need to remember she’s only twenty years old! She has a lot still to achieve and I think she will.”

With an exciting home World Cup starting to appear over the horizon, I couldn’t help but thinking about the number of huge missed opportunities football has had in Australia over the past fifty years or so. Therefore, Rose and I ended our conversation by talking about what Football Australia need to do to make sure the 2023 World Cup doesn’t get added to that depressing catalogue: “Football in Australia needs a lot of work in general so this is a hard one. I honestly do not have the answer to this. I think there is a lot of work collectively behind the scenes that would need to be done however we need to remember James Johnson has only been part of Football Australia for under a year. He might just be the person we need to ensure from an administrative point of view we stay on track and don’t fall into a honeymoon period as we did after the Socceroos won the Asian Cup with the Socceroos (the men’s Australian national football team).

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Euxton Girls: Doing Great Work in Lancashire

Impetus recently announced a player sponsorship deal with Chorley Women’s Lisa Topping. One of Lisa’s early clubs was Euxton Girls. Ben Gilby talks to the club’s Michael Taylor about Euxton Girls’ development, Lisa’s time there and how things are going at the present time.

**Above:** Euxton Girls enjoyed success in the pre-lockdown period. **Photo via:** Michael Taylor.

We began our discussion with Michael telling us all about the history of the club: “Euxton Girls FC was formed in July 2002 by our Chairman Dennis Winn, when his granddaughter told him she wanted to play football. That granddaughter was Nicola Barker, who is still involved in coaching at the club. This grassroots, girls only club was established to encourage and help give girls, from the age of five to eighteen, the opportunity to discover the game. Originally with twenty-three girls signing on to U10s and U12s teams, and playing in the Lancashire FA Girls League. We now have over 250 girls across seventeen teams playing in six leagues and have an established FA Wildcats centre, recognised by the FA.

Impetus recently announced sponsorship of Chorley Women’s Lisa Topping who played for Euxton Girls in her early days as a footballer. I asked Michael how Lisa is remembered at the club: “Lisa is remembered as a hardworking and technical player. She had an excellent left foot, in which she often curled in goals straight from the corner.”

“Lisa was the first to make it at a professional senior level and was followed shortly by Danielle Gibbons (who also played for Liverpool FC). We also had Jasmine Elliot who represented England at Youth Level. Lisa was also the first to accept an American scholarship and many have followed her since, around 5% of our players over the years have made it into a higher grade of football. With rising numbers of players at the club and improvement within the women’s football pyramid, we hope to see plenty more of our girls progress into senior football, both at professional and grassroots level.”

**Above:** Euxton Girls in action – something which everyone hopes will be able again to happen before too long. **Photo** **via:** Michael Taylor.

Coronavirus has had a massive impact on life in the country and Euxton Girls have had to work their way through it too: “It’s been tough for everyone, Football was missed by everyone, especially the players, but we were very much on the front foot to get back and stay back safely, there is extra work but it’s worth it to get that hour in the week and a game on a Saturday or a Sunday to enjoy and see their teammates and a sense of normality on the pitch.”

“Lockdown was tough to start with but I think we did well all things considered, All the coaches were constantly in touch with their teams and each other, at least every week with quizzes, online training sessions and meetups etc. The club also did weekly online quizzes across social media with different themes such as Blockbusters and A Question of Sport, and amazingly we managed to get our club sticker book launched, online, which went down a real storm with all the girls.”

Apart from coronavirus, there are other challenges at the club as Michael highlights: “The biggest challenge now is the lack of facilities, pitches, and winter training especially as the club grows and less are available due to various reasons, we lost one of our pitches earlier in the year to housing development for example.”

That growth is incredible and the achievements of these ever growing number of Euxton Girls teams is phenomenal: “We started into lockdown with fourteen teams, we now have seventeen, with the addition of two new U9s and an Open age team during lockdown. Our last season’s u12s West team just won the Lancashire FA Cup in October, delayed from May, which is the highest achievement since our then U15s beat Manchester City to the league title back in the day. We’ve had tournament wins at Flamingo Land, Blackpool, Bispham and Skelmersdale national tournament as well as League wins in recent years in the West Lancs league. We currently have six of our older teams in contention for League honours.”

**Above:** Lisa Topping, sponsored by *Impetus* (back row in tracksuit) with a group of Euxton Girls players. **Photo via:** Michael Taylor.

Like every club, Euxton Girls have a wonderful group of volunteers, without whom they could not function. Michael highlights some the club’s real stalwarts: “Antonia, our U10’s West team coach especially stands out, she works with a few of the teams from the U9’s to the open age, she is fantastic at what she does and has been a real asset with the our newer female coaches to bring them up to speed with their teams and training and mentor them without the FA courses being available as yet. She’s due to go to America coaching later on this year and will be sorely missed. We wish her every success on her journey.”

“Maisie is another standout from our 16s team. She also plays for our U18s and helps to coach one of our U13s as well as leading our youth council which was cut short, both these girls are great role models to all the girls and fantastic examples of what the club is about.”

We ended our conversation by examining what the club’s aims are over the next few years: “The immediate aim is stability and recover lost ground, we’re in a good position and have some good things going on later this year all being well. The main aim is to get the conveyor belt going from the Wildcats upwards, we would like to see girls progress through the ranks to open age, if not via a player pathway with a club such as Chorley Women, to a higher level. It would be good to see more of our former players coming back into coaching their own teams as well and get more female coaches onto the books. If we can get to twenty teams by our 20^th birthday next year, that would be a fantastic achievement, facilities and coaches pending of course.”

**Above:** Lisa Topping of Chorley Women and formerly of Euxton Girls – proudly sponsored by *Impetus*. **Artwork:** Graphics by PW.

The View From France

Jean-Pierre Thiesset rounds up all the action from the thirteenth week of action in D1 Arkema, French women’s football’s top flight and updates us with all the transfer news around the division.

Olympique Lyonnais won away from home 5–0 against Paris FC. With the return of Selma Bacha (one decisive pass and involved at the start of the move which was concluded with a wonderful goal from Amel Majri) and Nikita Parris (two goals and one decisive pass) as starters, Lyon did not leave any chance to Paris FC by scoring twice in the opening eleven minutes of the match.

**Above:** Selma Bacha who played an influential role in Olympique Lyonnais’ opening goal. **Photo:** Damien LG via @OLFeminin

Lyon finally found their dominant form again and produced a very good performance. The scorers were: Dezsnifer Marozsän (7), Nikita Parris (11, 66), Amel Majri (33) with a wonderful bicycle kick and Wendie Renard (73) with a left foot kick and not a header as usual.

Bordeaux consolidated third place in the table by winning 7-1 at Reims. Bordeaux dominated the match from the beginning to the end, completely suffocating Reims, which were never able to really worry their visitors despite scoring a goal at the end of the first half. Goals from Inès Jaurena (5), Khadija Shaw (10, 40, 66), Maëlle Garbino (17, 53), Claire Lavogez (76). Mélissa Gomes (45) reduced the score for Reims. Khadija Shaw’s two goals ensure she stays top of the goal scorers chart in D1 Arkema. She has now scored seventeen goals. Bordeaux are now six points ahead of Montpellier, who seems to have already lost the battle for the third place.

Dijon won 3–2 at home against Soyaux. Dijon’s scorers were Shnia Demetrice Gordan (45, 68), Léa Khelifi (85). Marie-Charlotte Léger (61 penalty) and Nina Stapelfeldt (66) scored for Soyaux. This is a good result for Dijon who continues to pull themselves away from the bottom of the table being now nine points ahead of third from bottom. It is not such good news for Soyaux. They have now not won since their victory at Le Havre on October 2^nd, 2020, ten games ago. They have lost eight and drawn one in this period. Furthermore, Le Havre who are bottom, two points behind Soyaux have a game in hand on them as do Issy who are tied with them on seven points.

Paris St. Germain won 5-0 away to Guingamp. PSG are still league leaders, one point ahead of Lyon. By scoring very early in the game they shown to Guingamp how much they wanted to win. Goals from Sandy Baltimore (6), Marie-Antoinette Katoto (11, 56), Kadidiatou Diani (19) and Jordyn Huitema (85) earned the win. It seems that we will have to wait for the game between Olympique Lyon and Paris St. Germain to know who will win D1 Arkema this year.

The two other games both finished 0-0 draw – Montpellier at home against Fleury (with a red card for Montpellier’s Dominika Skorvankova after sixty-six minutes) and Le Havre at home against Issy.

The D1 ARKEMA table now looks like this:

	P	W	D	L	F	A	Pts	GD
Paris St. Germain	13	12	1	0	51	2	37	+ 49
Olympique Lyonnais	13	12	0	1	48	4	36	+ 44
Bordeaux	13	8	2	3	32	14	26	+ 18
Montpellier	13	6	2	5	16	20	20	– 4
Fleury	12	5	4	3	11	16	19	– 5
Paris FC	13	5	3	5	21	22	18	– 1
Dijon	12	5	1	6	15	22	16	– 7
Guingamp	13	5	1	7	19	22	16	– 3
Reims	13	3	2	8	17	30	11	– 13
Issy	12	2	1	9	8	53	7	– 45
Soyaux	13	2	1	10	9	29	7	– 20
Le Havre	12	1	2	9	10	23	5	– 13

**Above:** Nikita Parris in action against Paris FC at the weekend against whom she scored. **Photo:** Damien LG via @OLFeminin

Other news from Olympique Lyonnais team:

Newly arrived Lyon player Catarina Macario, made her debut for the USNWT in the weekend against Colombia. She put in an outstanding performance, scoring the first goal in the USA’s 6-0 win and was voted player of the match. We are so lucky to have her in Lyon and I cannot wait to see her play with OL team.

As expected last week, defensive midfielder Damaris Egurolla signed a three and a half year contract with the club which will start on January 20, 2021 and run until June 30, 2024.

According to Jean-Luc Vasseur, Lyon coach, there will be several other players coming to Lyon soon. Now we can say that Lyon is definitively busy in the transfer market this winter.

D1 ARKEMA January transfers:

TEAMS	ARRIVALS	DEPARTURES
PARIS SG	Aminata Diallo (Utah Royals, USA, end of loan)	Aminata Diallo (Atlético de Madrid, Spain, loan)
OLYMPIQUE LYONNAIS	Catarina Macario (Standford University, USA), Damaris Egurrola (Everton FC, England)	Manon Revelli (Servette Chênois FC, Switzerland, loan)
BORDEAUX	Svava Rós Guðmundsdóttir (Kristianstads DFF, Sweden), Malia Berkely (Florida State University, USA)	Marine Perea (Soyaux, loan), Elena Linari (AS Roma, Italia)
MONTPELLIER	None	Marie-Charlotte Léger (Soyaux, loan)
FLEURY	Michelle De Jongh (Vittsjö GIK, Sweden), Kamilla Karlsen (Bröndby IF, Denmark), Emmeline Mainguy (SSD Napoli, Italia)	Laëtitia Philippe (GPSO Issy, loan)
SOYAUX	Marie-Charlotte Léger (Montpellier, loan), Kelly Gadea (FC Sevilla, Spain), Marine Perea (Bordeaux, loan)	None
LE HAVRE	Andrea Rán Snæfeld Hauksdóttir (Breidablik, Island, loan)	None
ISSY	Laëtitia Philippe (Fleury, loan)	Ariana Mondiri (USA)

There have been no transfer activity so far for the other teams.