Charles wonder-goal but Lionesses lose late on

By Jeff Burnige at St Paul’s sport@southwarknews.co.uk

MillwAll liONeSSeS lost their london & South east women’s regional Football league premier league derby match with ebbsfleet United 2-1 after a late goal at St paul’s last Sunday.

Otesha Charles opened the scoring for the Lionesses, but Amelia Woodgate equalised before half-time. Both goals were of the highest quality, with Charles’s coming from a typical run inside from the left before an unstoppable shot into the top-left corner. That came in the fifteenth minute and the

Guyana international followed it with a similar effort in the 23rd minute which crashed off the crossbar. The Ebbsfleet leveller came against the run of play in the 40th minute.

The second half became very disjointed.

Emma Whitter broke through for a one-onone but her shot went agonisingly wide.

Manager Jack Wheeler brought on regulars Angel Reid and Sophie Chapman in an attempt to win the game, but it was a defensive mix-up on a long ball which settled the contest in the visitors’ favour, with Woodgate scoring her second of the match.

Millwall host Worthing FC Women this

Sunday. Kick-off in Rotherhithe is 1.30pm. Also in the same league, Dulwich Hamlet Women won 2-1 at Enfield Town Ladies. Erin Corrigan and Sophie Manzi, the latter four minutes from time, scored the visitors’ goals. Dulwich play Saltdean United at Champion Hill on Sunday at 2pm.

The Lionesses are in fourth in the tenteam table, with 24 points from twelve games, three points ahead of the Hamlet who have played the same number of fixtures.

Meanwhile, the Lionesses Academy again provided the high points of the weekend, with the under-16s drawing 1-1 away to table-topping Leicester City in the Junior

Premier League.

Even better was the achievement of Ted Jones’s under- 18 side in reaching the semifinal of the Capital Cup Junior Section by defeating Actonians 2-0 in Gunnersbury.

Melissa Jones and Chloe Jardine scored the goals against very defensive opposition to continue the side’s highly successful season. This is a competition in which they have beaten senior teams.

They are also through to the semi-final of the London Under-18 Girls’ Cup, and hopes are high for silverware for the resurgent Lionesses.in Rotherhithe is 1.30pm.

Meanwhile, the Lionesses Academy again provided the high points of the weekend, with the under-16s drawing 1-1 away to table-topping Leicester City in the Junior Premier League.

Even better was the achievement of Ted Jones’s under- 18 side in reaching the semifinal of the Capital Cup Junior Section by defeating Actonians 2-0 in Gunnersbury.

Melissa Jones and Chloe Jardine scored the goals against very defensive opposition to continue the side’s highly successful season. This is a competition in which they have beaten senior teams.

They are also through to the semi-final of the London Under-18 Girls’ Cup, and hopes are high for silverware for the resurgent Lionesses.