Brentford Women's remarkable run comes to an end against potent Dorking Wanderers Ladies
By Joe Acklam
28th Nov 2022 | Football
Brentford Women's four-match winning run is ended as Dorking Wanderers Ladies won 5-1 to knock them off top spot in L&SEWFL Division One North.
Gemma Shepherd opened the scoring for Dorking mid-way through the first half, but Chloe Logie notched to send the two teams into the break level.
In the second half the Bees crumbled and Dorking scored four through Katie Butts, Amber Hendra, Charlotte Keenan, and a second from Shepherd saw Brentford well beaten.
Dorking inflicted the Bees' first loss in seven matches and their first league defeat since September as they go behind Clapham Community on goal difference.
Brentford had made a quick start to proceedings, but fell behind after 20 minutes as Azza Fouly got her throw wrong and sent it to Shepherd, to set her in on goal and she calmly tucked the ball into the corner of the net.
This spurred Dorking on, but for the second time in the game a goal came against the run of play as Sophie Troth was given time to pick a pass and slipped Logie beyond the Dorking defence and she finished with aplomb.
Just one minute after the restart Wanderers retook the lead as Butts got onto the end of a ball in from close range and scrambled it beyond Fouly.
The Bees seemed rattled by the second goal and after an hour the deficit increased as Brentford headed away a corner to the edge of the volley to Hendra, and her first-time volley was sumptuous as it flew into the net.
Chloe Webb could have got the home side back into the game when she looked to send a cross into the box, but miscued it a little and ended up rattling the crossbar.
They kept going and came close once again as Logie rose highest from a corner and it was cleared off the line, despite protests from the number nine that it had gone in.
The resurgence wasn't to last and on 74 minutes Dorking got their fourth as a swift counter resulted in Shepherd tapping home from close range to get her second of the afternoon.
Wanderers added icing to the cake in stoppage time as Fouly made a fine original save, but Keenan was first on the scene for the rebound and sent the ball into an unguarded net to make it five.
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