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Hutton (in red) welcome the women of Leyton Orient.

Mon 14 Oct 2024

Sadly, our run in the prestigious Women's FA Cup came to an end having suffered a defeat at the hands of Hutton WFC on Sunday. As predicted , the speedy Hutton forward line made life difficult for the Os despite the visitors having slightly more of the possession. This season's problems in front of goal continued to dog the ladies' efforts and resulted in another game where we scored no goals from open play, the one we did get was from the penalty spot.
This was a tussle between a Tier Six team, sitting near the top of their league and playing at home, against a Tier Seven side, Orient, who have lost both league games and having scored no goals. In terms of the quality and fitness of the sides, there was little to choose between them, just the matter of being able to get goals.
It didn't help when Hutton scored their second on the stroke of half time after their forward clearly handled the ball yet the referee seems to be the only person at the ground who failed to see it. Hutton's third was a bizarre affair in that O's keeper Hannah Stone had been flattened after a collision with a Hutton forward and appeared to be badly hurt whilst prostrate on the ground. The Hutton player hesitated and looked unsure as to what she should do, so she plonked the ball into the unguarded net and the ref gave the goal. All this was not the sole reason we lost but it did leave a nasty taste in the mouth. It was not Hutton's fault and we wish them every success in the next round.
A normal match report has been published on the O's website, you can see it HERE.
If you would like to review the match, minute-by-minute, then take a look at our live-text page and re-live how the day unfolded and all the drama of the match. See it on our LIVE-TEXT page.

In order to get an idea of how the whole women's football arena is shaping up and our part in it, we like to keep tabs of the other teams in our league, the Greater London Women's Football League. Only GLWFL premier division sides are eligible to enter the FA Cup, here are their results from Sunday's FA Cup ties... (GLWFL teams shown underlined.)
Wycombe Wanderers 3 - 3 Comets - Comets went through on pens.
Selsey Women FC 0 - 4 South London Women.
Aylesford WFC 8 - 0 Camden and Islington United.

Just the one league match this weekend, it was the clash of the titans as Camden Town and Hammersmith, both victors over Orient, put their 100% records on the line against each other - and both lost them. A 3:3 draw saw both of them drop points thus aligning them selves with Islington Borough who have also won all their games bar one draw. The table looks as tight as it can get, all those three sides have played 4 games, won 3 and drawn 1. Just a smattering of goal difference separates them.
Sadly, we are still pointless and goal-less after two games. The up-to-date league tale is available HERE.

It's the capital cup - first round - next week for the senior women, this is a cup competition for all the leagues in and around London. There are a few levels so the idea is that each participating club gets to compete against sides of a similar status within the women's game. Our ladies are drawn away at Welling United. We don't know if this will be the team who play in the SW Essex league (that's at Tier Six) so we'll have to confirm that when we can.
The Junior Premier League has no league games next Saturday, we are not aware (yet) of any cup or friendly games involving our under 16 and under 18 sides. Can you help?

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