Tottenham Hotspur Ladies -

Under-15 team

QPR U15

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Match postponed

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The Under 15's found it tough going in the friendly encounter with Cambridge United U16's eventually losing out 5-0 to their older opponents. 

Spurs finished the game with only nine players after losing the services of Samantha Chase (ankle), Chloe Lawrence (ankle) and Cas Brown (hamstring) through injury during the match.

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It was a case of missed chances and poor defending as the Under 15's slipped to a 4-3 defeat to Old Elizabethans in a friendly on Sunday.

Ruth Waghorn opened the scoring in the 18th minute from a good through ball from Gemma Coots.  However, Old Elizabethans pulled themselves back into the match with two goals before the break. 

Spurs started brightly in the second half and Chloe Lawrence drew the score level in the 42nd minute. However, Old Elizabethans went ahead again, before Chloe Lawrence drew Spurs level.  A defensive mistake allowed Old Elizabethans in again to take a decisive 4-3 lead with seven minutes remaining.

QPR 

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The Under 15's opened their league programme with a high competitive and entertaining fixture against QPR, which saw them lose to the odd goal in eleven !!

In another match where neither side had more than a single goal advantage during the 90 minutes, QPR edged a high scoring game 6-5 with a goal in the last three minutes. 

In defeat, the hard working forward Ruth Waghorn scored a well earned hat trick with further goals coming from Rosi Webb and Jenny Homer.

Postponed - high winds

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The Under 15's found the going too tough against Morden Women in a friendly fixture sliding to a 5-0 defeat.

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Jenny Homer was the star for the Under 15's with a hat trick as they cruised to a 9-0 victory against Harpenden Colts in the HGFL. 

Free scoring Spurs made it fourteen goals in two League matches and the other Tottenham goalscorers were Sarah Green 2, Ruth Waghorn, Gemma Coots, Sinem Melin and Chloe Lawrence.

Match postponed - waterlogged pitch

Match postponed - waterlogged pitch

Match postponed - waterlogged pitch

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North Herts. Ladybirds

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Up against a "well-drilled" offside trap, Tottenham struggled in the first half.  Surviving an early scramble in front of their goal from a corner, Spurs had a single chance when Sarah Green broke through the middle, only to se her shot saved.  

In the second half, Tottenham dominated, but only after a scare when a Ladybird was clean through, with only Emma Burdette to beat, but the Tottenham keeper did enough to put her off and shoot wide of the goal.

Sarah Green's corner found Jenny Homer at the near post to volley home for the opener and the same player ripped a shot just past the post from an acute angle shortly afterwards.  Another corner, this time from Sam Chase, laid on a chance for Sinem Melin, who headed firmly past the keeper.

Chase had a fierce shot from the edge of the box kicked away by the Ladybirds goalkeeper for a corner and as time ticked away, a pass down the right flank set Becky Andrews away.  She outpaced her marker and struck a low shot that went under the goalie for the third goal to round up the scoring in a hard fought win in difficult conditions.

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The girls stuck their game against the older side, who proved difficult opponents and Gemma Coots grabbed a goal for the Spurs side.

Watford U16

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Sinem Melin raced through the defence onto a long pass from Sarah Green to slot home the first, while a repeat of the move saw Green prosper after Stephanie Constantinides put the through ball on a plate this time.  It was a useful tactic that the girls had learned to beat the offside trap that Ladybirds always employ to try and frustrate the opposition.

Melin grabbed her second of the game with a shot from the edge of the box on 20 minutes to make it 3-0 and that was the way it stayed.  Despite taking their foot off the pedal in the second half, the Undr-15s showed that they had the upper hand in the game and proved that they could get to the end without any panic, as the home side flagged.  Their play was always well thought out and they were constantly aware of any infringement that might have been picked up by the eagle-eyed linesman.

Manager Glenn Weaver said he was happy with the way the team played in gaining a well controlled victory, in a match played in very difficult circumstances.

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Harpenden Colts

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On a poor pitch and windy conditions, Spurs took a while to settle before Sinem Melin scored in the 10th minute following an excellent through ball from Sam Chase. 

Spurs second goal came after some good build up down the right before an excellent cross from Sarah Green saw Jenny Homer hammer home at the far post. Spurs then started to play some good passing football and went in at the break 4-0 up through further goals from Samantha Chase and Jenny Homer. 

Spurs started the second half tentatively and it wasn't until sub Gabbi Pierro  scored in the 53rd minute after being on the pitch for less than a minute that Spurs started to settle again. Jenny Homer completed her hat trick with Tottenham's sixth just three minutes before the end. 

This win virtually seals the runners-up spot for the Under 15's.

North Herts. Ladybirds

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QPR

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Rosi Webb bagged Spurs only goal of the game for Tottenham.

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North Herts Ladybirds

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Spurs started off sluggishly and from a free-kick conceded about 20 yards out, North Herts struck the crossbar with a looping dead ball kick.  The play swung to the other end and when Jenny Homer was put straight through, she hit her shot just wide.  It took just two more minutes to open the scoring, when Sarah Green found herself in the right place when the ball fell in the six yard box and she got in front of the defender to put the ball away from close range.

Tottenham's lead was short lived, as a ball down the left wing found the Ladybirds winger haring away from the halfway line and as Emma Burdett came out, she slotted the ball past her for the equaliser.

Taking attack as the best form of defence, Spurs pushed up the field and from a corner both Cas Brown and Rosi Webb were foiled by the bravery of the visiting keeper, who was in for a busy morning.  She was helpless in the 18th minute though, when Sarah Green added her second of the game with a hard drive from the edge of the area.  A neat move just after the restart saw Dom Clarke break out of defence and feed Jenny Homer.  In turn she put Rosi in on goal, but her shot rose over the bar.

With 21 minutes gone, Sinem Melin put a shrewd ball through the middle of the Ladybirds defence and Jenny Homer latched onto it, hitting a rising shot past the goalie.  However, the game was not all one way, with the North Herts. goalscorer coming close with a lob that bounced off the top of the bar and over the top.  Spurs responded with Rosi Webb having two great chances, Gemma Coots heading a corner just wide and then flighting a free-kick just over when Homer was brought crashing to ground when clean through on goal.

As the half came to a close, play changed from end to end.  Webb hit another shot powerfully, but too high, the Ladybirds winger shot wide as Burdette came out to narrow the angle and another free-kick just outside the box was battered against the bar by Sam Chase.

The half-time break was welcomed by the players as it gave them a chance to take a breather in the end-to-end action that had filled the first half.  However, in the first minute, the Ladybirds' keeper saved from Webb with her legs, but from a corner shortly after, Jenny Homer pulled away at the far post and got on the end of the kick to force the ball over the line to make the score 4-1.

North Herts. were finding it difficult to get out of their half and a goal kick was intercepted by Gemma Coots and she hit it straight back, only to see it bounce out off the post.  The pressure produced many chances.  Rosi hit one wide, Sarah Green put a shot over and finally, Rosi got her reward for keeping on trying, when Sam Chase pulled a low ball back from the dead-ball line and Rosi turned to hit a shot past the keeper in the 66th minute.

At 5-1 the game was virtually over, but Sarah went close again, Sinem Melin was pushed forward and forced the keeper to stop her shot with her foot and Gemma shot over the top.  With eleven minutes left, a goal kick was chested down by Sam Chase and she took the ball on to drill a low shot past the goalkeeper's despairing dive for the sixth Tottenham goal.

To their credit, North Herts. were still trying to move the ball forward and Emma Burdette was called on to come out to save at the edge of her area when a forward closed in and then to hold a shot from 20 yards out.

The game ended with Spurs on the attack again, but they had done enough to secure a place in the final of the League Cup.

Photos of the match action can be viewed by clicking here

Hoddesdon Owls U16

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The Spurs side were put to the test in the early stages by a competitive
Hoddesdon Owls team on Sunday, but they eventually run out 7-2 winners. 

The Spurs goalscorers were Mary Griffiths, Ruth Waghorn, Ruth Yonatan, Keishe Heaven, Jenny Homer, Rebecca Andrews and Sinem Melin.

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The game was played in bright sunshine, dotted with showers, and it was when the rain fell that Tottenham took the advantage in the first half.

Play had been fought out in midfield for the first fifteen minutes, as the sides sized each other up, but Jenny Homer's determination to chase an apparent lost cause paid dividends.  A long ball through appeared to be the Rangers keeper's, but Jenny threw a diving block and the ball rebounded off her and into the unguarded net to give Spurs the lead.

Within seven minutes the lead was doubled, with Sarah Green forcing the QPR goalie to a parried save, but when the bal found it's way to her on the right wing, she flighted a shot high over the keeper's head to make it 2-0.

Rangers rarely made a direct threat on Sam Chase's goal in the first half, with Spurs taking the game to their opponents, having the benefit of playing with the wind at their backs in the first 45 minutes.

With 24 minutes gone, Ruth Waghorn beat her marker for pace and let go a low drive that the goalie did well to get down to and five minutes later made a run into the left hand channel and brought the keeper into action again.  Caroline Brown threaded a neat through ball to Ruth soon after and again the keeper was made to work to keep the ball out.

At the break, the Rangers side must have thought that the wind would work in their advantage, but there was little use of the conditions, although they did produce a lot of pressure for the Tottenham defence to deal with.

A long range effort went well wide from the Rangers striker, before a defender crept up at a corner to head goalwards and Chase produced a reflex one handed stop low down to deny her.  With 12 minutes of the half gone, a low shot from outside the box skimmed off the wet turf and beat Sam to give QPR a way back into the match, but a hard free-kick was plucked out of the air by the Tottenham keeper two minutes later to keep the lead intact.

With just over a quarter of an hour passed, the two goal cushion was restored and a fine goal it was too.  The ball was worked to Gemma Coots on the left wing and her left footed through ball found Ruth Waghorn, who coolly chipped it up and over the goalie to calm the Spurs nerves.

Spurs did suffer a couple of anxious moments, with QPR hitting the bar with a header from a corner and Sam Chase having to stretch to keep on shot low down at her post out with her foot. Another cross nearly caught Sam out, but she managed to push the ball up and then grab it tightly as it came down near the line.

As time ticked away and Rangers strove for another goal, Tottenham defended stubbornly and hit the QPR side on the break, which was finely exemplified by Sarah Green and Ruth Waghorn working tirelessly to hassle the Rangers defence.  Waghorn nearly made it four, when, in the last minute of normal time, she made a run on the right wing and hit a low shot that bounced away off the outside of the goalpost.

At the final whistle, the players whopped with delight at the win and manager Glenn Weaver leapt with joy.  He said, "The girls have deserved their success in what has been a difficult season, without regular competitive action.  I am pleased for them, because, as a group, I believe they can achieve a lot in the game."