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Cardiff City Reserves v Barnet (31st Mar 2009 08:23 PM)
Article by: Zoe Mendham

An early start on the first day of Spring saw Cardiff Reserves take on Barnet in London and come away with all three points. A bus journey of countless comical encounters saw us arrive at Barnet FC in good time to a pitch of larger girth than we were used to.

Cardiff started brightly and Donna Abbott and Charlotte Preen in the centre spread the ball well across to wingers Ellie Davies and Fern Burrage. The deadlock was broken on 20 minutes from a Cardiff corner, taken by ‘dead ball specialist’ Gemma Lewis. The ball was cleared to the edge of the box where Fern picked up the scraps to feed a ball through to debutant Kiera. She in turn neatly placed the ball to Cori-Beth who took the deftest of touches over the defenders head and volleyed the ball, with her weaker left foot, into the back of the net.

Barnet made chances and a lively number 10 was soon tamed by Preen in the middle of the park, but not before hitting a 30 yard strike, just above the cross bar, narrowly miss the goal.

The Cardiff defence worked well at the back and seemed to be building every week on solid performances – again young Hannah Seward showing her strength and agility.

Another Cardiff corner from good attacking play on the left wing by Ellie Smith, saw Gemma hit a ‘training ground’ back post corner for Cori-Beth Williams again to volley home.

A well earned 2 – 0 lead at half time.

Barnet, as expected, came out fighting and scored early on when their left back played the ball neatly to the strikers who linked up well to take a shot on goal. The shot was deflected off Lewis’ leg to go in and put Barnet back in the game.

A swift response from Cardiff saw Kirsty Lewis take a free kick from half way which Fern flicked on to Ellie Smith, at the back post, who powered the ball into the back of the net.

A Cardiff change saw Kiera depart on 70 minutes to see the leggy Jess Parrot make her debut up front causing grief for the tired Barnet defence.

A final corner from Lewis saw Barnet’s number 10 hit her own cross bar trying to clear the ball, which was eventually scrambled away.

Not the smoothest of games but a good battle and another deserved win.

Next week Cardiff Reserves travel to Watford – another tough battle but a challenge we are more than feeling up for as the end of the season battle heats up!

Report by Fern Burrage

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