City Reserves overcome Queens
Glasgow City Reserves defeated Queens Park 6-1 today at Lesser Hampden.
City got off to the perfect start on four minutes when they opened the scoring through Lyndsey Anderson. The away side worked the ball well from the the half way line, with some great interchanges between full back Carly McKenzie and striker Lisa Hendry. McKenzie then released Linda O’Donnell who hit an inch perfect cross for Anderson to fire past the keeper from five yards out.
City doubled their advantage ten minutes from the break. A goal kick from Steph Hardie was headed on by Debbie Garment into the path of Lisa Hendry and the talented striker calmly rounded the Queens park keeper to score with ease.
Half time 0-2.
Ten minutes after the break and Queen Park got a goal back. A mistake in the City midfield gifted Queens possession allowing them to break through the City rear guard to finish from inside the penalty box.
The away side restored their advantage on 73 minutes, when a City corner was eventually finished off by Louise Thomson who volley home from eight yards out.
City made it 4-1 with ten minutes remaining. Midfielder Linda O’Donnell turned inside and linked up well with Sarah Major and the striker finished with a fine lob from the edge of the penalty area.
City’s fifth goal came from Louise Thomson, scoring her second of the match. Striker Lisa Hendry held the ball up well and played in Thomson who finished with a great strike from 20 yards out.
With seconds remaining, City rounded off a good performance to make it 6-1, when Debbie Garment lobbed the Queens keeper after being played in by Thomson.
Reserves boss, Fiona Baker said, “After the good performance last week the girls went into today’s game full of confidence that they could pick up three points. The early goal set us off and it quickly calmed the game down. We managed to set the pace of the game and controlled the majority of possession in the first half. After opening the scoring, we had numerous chances to go 2 or 3 up but some poor finishing and the cross bar denied us. Going in 2-0 at half time the game was anything but over, and Queens Park started the 2nd half much stronger and managed to get one back. At that point it would have been easy for the girls to lose focus, but we managed to regain control of the game when we scored our third goal. After that, I thought it became far more comfortable for us and similar to last week I thought we played very well today and had a lot of good possession. We passed the ball really well and in the end this helped us to a comfortable victory.
16.05.10
