Brentford Women sparkle in front of 5,000 on Gtech Community Stadium debut

By Joe Acklam

14th Nov 2022 | Football


Brentford Women played in front of 5.089 fans at the Gtech Community Stadium. Photo: AreWeHere.
Brentford Women played in front of 5.089 fans at the Gtech Community Stadium. Photo: AreWeHere.

Brentford Women marked their first ever game at the Gtech Community Stadium with a dominant 4-2 win against Watford Ladies Development in L&SERWFL Division One North. 

The Bees were behind at the break courtesy of an early Lily Hall goal, but they came out firing in the second half and took the lead after an hour due to an own goal and Kirtsy Matthews. 

Chloe Logie then made it three and Eleonora Cottrell finished it off in stoppage time either side of a late penalty from Safiya Dean. 

The win in front of 5,089 fans sent Brentford top of the table and was their third straight victory and they are undefeated in six across all competitions. 

Brentford could have taken an early lead when Matthews found Logie in the area and her sliding effort came back off the inside of the post before being cleared hastily off the line. 

After not taking that chance, Watford went up the other end and scored as Lily Hardrava made a good save to deny Natalie Cloy, but Hall reacted quickest to the rebound and put it beyond the scrambling Brentford 'keeper. 

Matthews continued to cause problems for Watford, this time coming in off the wing and curled a shot towards the far corner and it took a remarkable save from Tia Ginn to deny her. 

After half an hour Matthews was again thwarted by Ginn, as she was picked out by Chloe Webb, Matthews took the ball down and looked to finish only to see the Watford goalkeeper make the save. 

Karleigh Osborne's words were still fresh in their ears when Brentford equalised as Jodie Reid swung in a corner and Sophie Troth got on the end of it and the ball flicked beyond Ginn off a Watford player. 

Matthews must have been wondering what she had to do to score after 50 minutes as she managed to finally beat Ginn with a close-range shot, only for it to come back off the post. 

Finally her moment came as Demi Edwards came off the bench and sent a lovely ball to the back post for Matthews and this time she made no mistake. 

Logie extended the Bees' advantage with her 12th goal of the season as she got onto the end of Matthews' free-kick, took it down and finished neatly. 

In the 89th minute Edwards, who had caused a lot of problems after being introduced off the bench, had a shot cleared off the line after rounding Ginn. 

Watford added a bit of doubt to the end of the game as in stoppage time Dean converted a penalty which she won after being brought down by Hardrava. 

The two-goal lead was restored two minutes later as Cottrell cut inside from the left wing and came to the edge of the area and struck ferociously into the top corner.  

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