On a wet afternoon SundayWoodley United and Reading FC Community Trust shared six goals, in a match where both teams led and the visitors levelled two minutes from full time when playing with ten players due to a sin-bin dismissal. United started strongly with Chloe Melton forcing visiting keeper Cherry Preisner to make a save in the first minute. Preisner would go on to be the Royals’ player of the match making a number of saves especially after the hosts had opened the lead in the fourteenth minute with Bonnie Messitt scoring following a cross from the left Kyra Hilmi. Reading levelled in the twenty eighth minute when Mia Bradley scored from a free kick some thirty yards from goal and enjoyed the better of the remaining half with Woodley struggling to get the ball wide to both Hilmi and Lucy Giles who had earlier been effective in the forward play. The visitors took the lead two minutes into the second half when Maya Raghunandanan beat Jo Nowak-Allum from distance. The scores were levelled by Lauren Devlin from the penalty spot in the seventh minute following a push on a Woodley player following a corner. It was from another corner that United retook the lead when Preisner punched Messit’s kick into her own net ten minutes later. With five minutes remaining Reading’s Assia Fatri was sin binned. Preisner made a good reaction one handed save following another corner and a minute later Raghunandanan scored her second of the game following a cross by Shardonnae Kekere-Ekun. Nowak-Allum, Knapp, Kehayoua, Surtees-Gooch, Evans, Hudson (Barnfield), Hilmi, Messitt, Melton, Devlin, Giles (Luffrum) Subs not used, Haines, Browning
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