Crystal Palace v Sheffield United Women programme

Crystal Palace √ sheffield united sunday, november 06 2022 | 12:00

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Good afternoon and welcome back to Hayes Lane Bromley FC for today’s Championship fixture against Sheffield United Women.

I

t was a fantastic, gritty win against Durham showing the true passion and desire that runs hand in hand within the football club. It wasn’t a great game to watch but it was a great game to play and the girls were tremendous. It was outstanding to get the goal and fight until the end to secure a deserved victory.

Our defending won the game for us. It was outstanding and much improved from the last few weeks. Durham had a lot of set pieces and a lot of chances and our back four dealt with them well against strong opposition.

Obviously Anna’s strike was great and she deserved a goal, coming second in the club’s Goal of the Month competition, and of course Fran was named Player of the Month. Both of them deserved this acknowledgement, so congratulations to them.

Today will be a totally different game against an exPalace man in Neil Redfearn.

It will be a game where both

teams will be able to get the ball down and play the exciting football both us and Sheffield United are renowned for.

Best Dean COYPL

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manager

the girls were tremendous. It was outstanding to get the goal and fight until the end to secure a deserved victory

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cpfc women Crystal Palace Women broke club records in 2021/22, and are looking to do the same this season. In each edition, we hear directly from one of the squad, with Jamaica international Paige Bailey-Gayle explaining her path to Palace.

paige bailey-gayle Age

20

Joined

Summer 2022

Position

Forward

Apps

3

Goals

0

Career highlights

Helping Jamaica qualify for the Women’s World Cup having switched international allegiance in 2021.

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Bailey-Gayle has several years’ experience despite being younger than many of her peers.

Capable of an eye-catching goal, she won Championship Player of the Month in 2020.

paige bailey-gayle

Whenever I played against Palace I faced a good side that was hard to break down and was able to finish high in the table. So when I left my last club, Leicester City, I got in touch with Dean Davenport and everything I heard made Palace sound like the perfect fit.

After spending seven years in Arsenal’s Centre of Excellence I signed my first professional contract with Leicester aged 17 in the Women’s Championship. With Aimee Everett and Annabel Johnson in the team we got promoted to the Super League in 2020/21, and after a season in the top-flight I felt I wanted to step back into the Championship to get more minutes under my belt.

Promotion is hard to navigate because you’re playing against world-class players, but the experience teaches you what you need to thrive at that level. At Palace we want to get promoted this season, and a lot of the girls have WSL experience.

I’m happy to have made the decision to move to Palace because the atmosphere here is electric, but my first few weeks were quite tough. I joined as one of the final

Promotion is hard to navigate because you’re playing against world-class players, but the experience teaches you what you need to thrive at that level. At Palace we want to get promoted

signings so missed a chunk of pre-season. That meant the girls had got to know each other on the pitch by the time I joined, and then after a couple of weeks I picked up an injury.

The support I had from everyone at the club was exactly what I needed. It was wonderful.

I was focused on coming back, training hard and putting in the work, so I was delighted to make my debut earlier this month. Of course, being sidelined is part of the game and if you’re injured it’s your job to support the team, but it was hard to watch when I wasn’t able to play.

This squad has a fresh vision of what we want to do and everyone’s bought into it because they’ve joined with the same goal. We’re all pulling in the same direction and get on well as a group.

Promotion is of course an ambition, but we’re focused on the next match rather than the end goal.

We take each week as it comes and prepare for every game so we can get the results required for what we want to achieve. It’s not all about promotion, it’s about getting three points every time we step out.

To support that, my personal targets are mainly to stay fit, healthy and to help the team. I’m not looking at numbers, more that if I can stay fit I can be effective for the team. Naturally I want to score and assist, but my main goal is to be the best version of myself.

Internationally I represented England at youth levels until 2021, when I switched to Jamaica. That’s a massive honour for me and my paige bailey-gayle

family and it required a lot of thought before changing, but I feel it was the right decision.

We recently qualified for the Women’s World Cup which is another massive honour. I never thought I’d become a full international, and now I am it’s the greatest feeling in the world.

Whenever I played against Palace before I noticed the fans and the support they created behind the goal, so it’s great to be on their side now

International football is a different calibre and we play with and against players from all over the world, be that CONCACAF opposition or teammates based in Spain, France, Hungary, Sweden and the US. We all learn different styles from all over the globe.

Now, I’m determined to stay fit and secure my place to compete in Australia 2023

There are 4.36 million of us and we are

tomorrow’s female future.

We’re part of every community and come from all social backgrounds, cultures and religions with different skills and abilities. We’re an unstoppable force for good if we’re given the chance. The chance to play football.

We want to play in the school curriculum, at breaktime, after school, at local clubs

wherever, whenever we want.

NO barriers, NO stereotypes

LET US PLAY. Find out more at: www.EnglandFootball.com/LetGirlsPlay

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Seasonal Stats Name

Apps

Goals

Player stats Name Chloe Arthur

league table Apps

Goals

pos CLUB P W D

fixtures & results L

F

A GD Pts

0

13

2 +11 19

5 1

bri

7

6

1

AUGUST Sun 21

London City Lionesses

W 1-0

Sat 27

Coventry United

W 3-0

Paige Bailey-Gayle

4

SEPTEMBER

Kirsty Barton

5

Sun 18

Southampton

L

Sun 25

Blackburn Rovers

W 3-1

Sun 2

Bristol City

L

0-4

Sun 16

Sunderland

L

0-2

Sun 23

Bristol City

L

0-3

Sun 30

Durham

W 1-0

Annabel Blanchard

8

Charley Clifford

1

1

Polly Doran

8

Aimee Everett

7

Anna Filbey

7

Fliss Gibbons

3

Shauna Guyatt

6

Coral-Jade Haines

6

Elise Hughes

8

Annabel Johnson

7

sou

8

5

2

1

11

6

+5 17

OCTOBER

3

Rianna Dean

Fran Kitching (GK)

2

4

lon

cry

7

7

4

4

2

0

1

3

14

9

4 +10 14

8

+1 12

1 5

cha

7

3

1

3

14 12 +2 10

NOVEMBER Sun 6

Sheffield United

Sun 20

Charlton Athletic

Sun 27

Lewes

DECEMBER 1

6

bir

6

3

1

2

9

7

+2 10

4

Sun 4

Lewes

Sun 18

Charlton Athletic

JANUARY 7

lew

7

2

4

1

8

7

+1 10

7

Sun 15

London City Lionesses

Sun 22

Coventry United

FEBRUARY Natalia Negri (GK)

1

8

bla

7

2

2

3

8

12 -4

8

Leigh Nicol

Sun 5

Southampton

Sun 12

Durham

MARCH

Ellie Noble

5

Sun 5

Bristol City

Hollie Olding

3

Sun 12

Sheffield United

6

Sun 26

Blackburn Rovers

Chloe Peplow Kirsten Reilly

5

Molly-Mae Sharpe

8

Isabella Sibley

5

9

10

1

11

she

dur

sun

7

6

7

2

2

1

1

1

1

4

3

5

14

6

5

9

9

+5

-3

12 -7

7

7

4

1

Hope Smith (GK) 12 Lizzie Waldie

1-2

cov

8

0

0

8

4

6

27 -23 0

APRIL Sun 2

Sunderland

Sun 16

Birmingham City

Sun 23

Lewes

Sun 30

Charlton Athletic

TBC TBC

seasonal stats

Birmingham City

Crystal palace f.c.

Sheffield united f.c.

Fran KITCHING (GK) 1

1 Nina WILSON (GK)

Annabel JOHNSON 2

2 Ellie WILSON

Fliss GIBBONS 3 Chloe ARTHUR 4 Anna FILBEY 5 Aimee EVERETT 6

3 Charlotte NEWSHAM 4 Sophie BARKER 5 Naomi HARTLEY

Chloe PEPLOW 7

6 Grace RIGLAR

Molly SHARPE 8

7 Courtney SWEETMAN-KIRK

Rianna DEAN 9 Annabel BLANCHARD 10 Kirsten REILLY 11 Lizzie WALDIE 12 Natalia NEGRI (GK) 13 Hollie OLDING 14

8 Maddy CUSACK 9 Bex RAYNER 10 Alethea PAUL 11 Georgia WALTERS 12 Rhema LORD-MEARS

Ellie NOBEL 16

14 Mia ENDERBY

Issy SIBLEY 17

15 Tamara WILCOCK

Kirsty BARTON 18 Elise HUGHES 19 Polly DORAN 20 Shauna GUYATT 21 Hope SMITH (GK) 22 Coral HAINES 23 Leigh NICOL 24 Charley CLIFFORD 25

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16 Chene MUIR 17 Sophie HAYWOOD 19 Charley DOCHERTY 22 Maria FRANCIS-JONES 24 Rachel BROWN 27 Lara MILLER 33 Bethan DAVIES (GK)