Sport London e Benfica 0 Brentford Women 10: Cheatley and Phillips hat-tricks as Bees hit double figures
Sport London e Benfica 0 Brentford Women 10: Cheatley and Phillips hat-tricks as Bees hit double figures Brentford Women hit ten past Sport London e Benfica in a 10-0 win in their penultimate game in the London and South East Premier division at Rectory Park. Alissa Down opened the scoring and Freya Worsley scored a brace before Ashley Cheatley recorded an 18-minute hat-trick from the bench. Captain Maddie Phillips then also scored a hat-trick with Paula Holguin rounding off the double-figure win against the 10-player Benfica.
Renai McCrea broke forward from left-back to create the Bees' first real sight of goal, but curled her effort over the bar after a good touch and set from Maï Louvrier. Louvrier then had a chance herself on 12 minutes after Chelsie Berry found her on the edge of the box. The midfielder shifted the ball away from a defender and fired a right-footed strike that Amanda O'Neill held on to well.
Carly Williams' side were beginning to find their flow and Worsley got on the end of an excellent team move a quarter of an hour into the game. Makeba Black switched the ball perfectly to Becca Teale , whose cross was met by Worsley's head but O'Neill denied her the opener again. In the previous league meeting between the sides, Down scored a goal of the season contender.
In this clash, she may have scored an even better goal. On 20 minutes, she spotted the keeper off her line and lifted the ball over her from 40 yards out to give the Bees the lead. Five minutes later and the west Londoners had a second.
Louvrier had an effort saved from the edge of the box but Worsley was quickest to react to tuck home the rebound from close range. Just before the half-time whistle, Berry forced an excellent save from O'Neill; her strike from the edge of the box curled toward the bottom corner but the Benfica goalkeeper got down just in time to tip it round the post and Brentford went into the break 2-0 up. Williams made three changes at the break with Cheatley , Paula Holguin and Khyri McKenzie replacing Berry, Louvrier and Ilana Harris-Walters.