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Sat 12 Oct 2019  ·  Premier (Women)
Bournemouth 2
0
4
Portsmouth Hockey Club
Womens 1st Team
Womens 1st Team overcome Bournemouth away

Womens 1st Team overcome Bournemouth away

Luke Parsons13 Oct 2019 - 09:56
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PHC 4 - 0 Bournemouth

Portsmouth travelled to Bournemouth in atrocious weather conditions but fortunately, on arrival, the rain eased off slightly to be just a little more than uncomfortable.

The home side, with a number of experienced players in their lineup, started strongly and forced a string of early short corners - none of which they were able to convert. Gradually, however, Pompey began to assert themselves and sharp play resulted in corners of their own and a slick routine involving Nadz Moore and Zoe Wimshurst created an opening with Jenny Turvey-Warnes poking home to break the deadlock.

With their confidence boosted the visitors never looked back, constantly pressing the home defence and midfield caused several Bournemouth players to lose their composure and Portsmouth doubled their lead soon after as Sam Ward picked the pocket of one of the defenders to break forward and drive for goal - a great lead run from Katie Paulson-Pond opened up more space and, pulling the ball on to her reverse side to deceive the keeper, Sam lashed home.

After the beak it was all one way traffic and Pompey should have added a hatful of goals with Katie Spooner in particular being unlucky on a number of occasions with shots being smothered or sneaking just wide of the post.

Skipper, Emily Butcher, increased the lead after a fine move down the right - driving along the baseline to draw the Bournemouth keeper before calmly sliding the ball past her from the narrowest of angles.

The icing on the cake was provided with 10 minutes to go as Sofia Gomez capitalised on confusion in the home defence to sweep home a loose ball with her reverse stick.

In the end a comfortable victory over an experienced Bournemouth side who certainly failed to cope with the incessant pressure applied by in such uncomfortable weather conditions.

Match details

Match date

Sat 12 Oct 2019

Kickoff

10:30

Location

Competition

Premier (Women)

League position

3
Portsmouth
7
Bournemouth 2
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