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Manchester United Girls beat Southampton 3-1 within the FA Cup yesterday with Rachel Williams coming off the bench to attain twice for the Purple Devils.
Talking after the sport, Williams informed MUTV how she dreamt how the sport would play out the evening earlier than.
She mentioned: “I really mentioned to John on the bench, our kitman, I mentioned, ‘Ah John, I had a dream final evening that we’re drawing and I come on and I get a hat-trick in eight minutes,’ however I bought the 2 targets.”
Ella Toone opened the scoring within the eighth minute after she acquired it on the sting of the realm and calmly curled it previous the keeper.
Southampton levelled issues up within the second half as Lloyd-Smith discovered the underside nook.
Williams got here on and made an instantaneous affect like she so usually does.
She was there twice within the six yard field to verify the ball was bundled over the road.
She mentioned: “Extra vital is the group right now and the way effectively they began and, once more, it simply reveals that the women that begin the sport, don’t all the time end the sport however they do their job, and I come on and do mine.”
Regardless of being within the league beneath United, the Championship, Southampton fielded a powerful group that gave the Purple Devils a scare within the second half.
Even after United’s third, the Saints saved on combating and had a sequence of probabilities, together with one which wanted a purpose line clearance from Millie Turner and a shot that hit the put up.
“We’d performed our homework on Southampton, however that’s the fun of the FA Cup, you get all types thrown at you. So we knew they have been going to be resilient, they have been going to return at us and never let up,” Williams mentioned.
“I believe for us right now, we needed to present persistence, and professionalism, to get the job performed and, yeah, we did. However credit score to Southampton, they’ve been good right now, actually took us to the top.”
United now face Brighton within the quarter finals on the ninth or tenth of March.
Within the Championship, Southampton are sitting in fourth, simply three factors beneath first positioned Charlton so the possibility of promotion to the WSL continues to be an actual risk for the aspect who solely turned full-time final season.
Williams continued: “For me, with these groups, they are often so unorthodox and, for them, it’s a very good likelihood to see the extent they’re at for someday when they’re competing [against teams] within the WSL so, to have this cup, it’s good for the ladies’s recreation.”
United’s subsequent recreation is on Saturday once they journey to Arsenal within the league.
