Words: Blake Birt & Michael Flynn
Images: Ray Gardner

Souths United Women have comfortably extended their unbeaten run to four matches with a 10-0 mauling of Redlands United Women at Cleveland Showgrounds.

Five different scorers shared in the goal-fest with Ayesha Norrie notching four goals, Meghan McElligott and Georgia Keen posting doubles and Deeanna Thompson and Kirten McGilvray also chiming in with a goal apiece.

Forced to sit deep from the kick-off, the Red Devils could find no reply on their home turf – Souths repeatedly stifling their opponent’s to keep them scoreless for the sixth time in seven outings this season.

The win equals Souths ten goal victory over Peninsula Power earlier this year as their best ever result in PlayStation 4 National Premier Leagues Women’s competition.

They move to second place on the table with the remainder of the round to be concluded on Sunday, while Redlands remain without a competition point and mired to the bottom of the table.

Key Moments

10’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Ayesha Norrie slides in an assured left-foot finish after beating the offside trap

28’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS  - Souths are gifted their second goal after Redlands keeper Megan Byriel is unable to corral Deeanna Thompson’s rather hopeful long-range shot

42’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Meaghan McElligott ends the match as a contest, slotting left-footed into the far corner after being allowed far too much space inside the penalty area

55’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - A simple goal for Souths as Thompson sprints towards the byline before squaring to a sliding Keen to finish

60’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - A deflected Thompson cross sits up perfectly for Kirsten McGilvray, who lashes a first-time shot into the bottom corner

66’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Ayesha Norrie drills a superb free kick past Byriel for her second of the night

71’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Brilliant goal from McElligott as the winger glides past five defenders before wrong-footing Byriel

73’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Keen is the third Souths player to score twice, finding space yet again and firing home from 10 yards out

80’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Sublime reverse ball from McElligott releases Norrie, who takes one controlling touch before easing the shot home

85’ - GOAL FOR SOUTHS - Norrie rounds out her four goal haul by pouncing on a rebound to catch the Redlands defenders ball-watching

What They Said

“There’s a lot of brilliant individual players on that team. As for the score line that’s something that we have to work on and something I don’t take to heart as a keeper. I knew coming into this team that we weren’t going to win every game and that it wasn’t going to be easy. I knew full well I was going to have a tough job. I just try to keep my head up at the end of the week. We all go back to the training paddock and we work harder.“ – Megan Byriel, Redlands United FC Women goalkeeper

“We like to use these games (to improve). If you’re going to be up then you might as well use it for training purposes as well. There is no perfect team obviously. There’s things that we can still improve and parts of the game where we didn’t do well. But we can use that to figure these things out and improve for the future. “ – Deanna Thompson, Souths United FC Women

Match Details

PlayStation 4 National Premier Leagues Women’s 2016 – Round 9

Friday, May 6
Cleveland Showgrounds, Redlands

Redlands United FC Women – 0
Souths United FC Women – 10 (Ayesha NORRIE 10’ 66’ 80’ 85’, Deeanna THOMPSON 28’, Meaghan MCELLIGOTT 42’ 71’, Georgia KEEN 55’ 73’, Kirsten MCGILVRAY 60’)

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Match Officials – Danielle POTTICARY (referee), Kianna AQUILINA-HENDERSON (assistant), Madeleine RAPISARDI (assistant)