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Beth England joined Tottenham from Chelsea successful the January transportation windowTottenham Hotspur avoided a Women's FA Cup banana tegument arsenic they overcame London City Lionesses successful circular four.
Bethany England headed the hosts successful beforehand aboriginal connected astatine Brisbane Road, earlier Mana Iwabuchi doubled the advantage.
Drew Spence and Eveliina Summanen, positive an ain extremity from Lionesses skipper Harley Bennett, completed the scoring.
This crippled had appeared ripe for an upset, with Spurs having mislaid their past 5 Women's Super League matches portion London City pb the Championship.
But Tottenham managed to comfortably steer themselves into the fifth-round gully connected Monday evening.
WSL prime tames the Lionesses
The Lionesses had their pre-match preparations disrupted connected Monday erstwhile manager Melissa Phillips left the club to articulation American broadside Angel City FC, but interim manager Nikita Runnacles had promised they would commencement connected the beforehand foot.
They pb the 2nd tier successful points and goals scored, and enjoyed the champion of the aboriginal stages of the lucifer connected Sunday - but it was a Lioness of a antithetic benignant who opened the scoring.
Euro 2022 victor England headed Spurs up connected 11 minutes, the January signing from WSL rivals Chelsea peeling disconnected her marker to find abstraction astatine the acold station and decorativeness Rosella Ayane's good transverse from adjacent range.
That extremity enactment Spurs astatine easiness and they held London City astatine bay earlier landing a hammer stroke successful first-half stoppage time.
Arsenal loanee Iwabuchi had abstraction and clip successful the country to instrumentality a mates of touches and occurrence successful her archetypal extremity for Spurs, her changeable taking a important deflection disconnected Bennett.
Spurs' transition to the circular of 16 was sealed 3 minutes aft the break, Spence scoring from adjacent scope aft Lionesses keeper Shae Yanez had saved good from Summanen.
The visitors were unlucky to concede a fourth, skipper Bennett seeing a transverse loop disconnected her limb and implicit Yanez.
However, they were sloppy for the fifth, conceding possession astatine the backmost earlier Nikola Karczewska unselfishly squared for Summanen to finish.
Line-ups
Tottenham Women
Formation 3-4-3
- 1Korpela
- 29NevilleSubstituted forAleat 69'minutes
- 5Bartrip
- 3ZadorskySubstituted forTurnerat 61'minutes
- 14Ildhusøy
- 15James
- 24Spence
- 6Harrop
- 20IwabuchiSubstituted forUbogaguat 69'minutes
- 19EnglandSubstituted forKarczewskaat 62'minutes
- 23AyaneSubstituted forSummanenat 45'minutes
Substitutes
- 4Turner
- 9Karczewska
- 13Ale
- 18Ubogagu
- 22Spencer
- 25Summanen
London City Lionesses
Formation 3-4-3
- 30Yañez
- 14BennettBooked astatine 72mins
- 8Rodgers
- 15Nolan
- 24HopcroftSubstituted forNevilleat 45'minutes
- 10AggSubstituted forPrimusat 62'minutes
- 22JoelSubstituted forFitzgeraldat 85'minutes
- 25Heuchan
- 16MuyaSubstituted forShepherdat 80'minutes
- 19EwensSubstituted forJarrettat 85'minutes
- 11Napier
Substitutes
- 2Neville
- 7Shepherd
- 9Jarrett
- 12Cull
- 17Fitzgerald
- 18Pedersen
- 20Primus
- 27Kitching
Live Text
Match ends, Tottenham Hotspur Women 5, London City Lionesses 0.
Second Half ends, Tottenham Hotspur Women 5, London City Lionesses 0.
Delay successful lucifer due to the fact that of an wounded Jamie-Lee Napier (London City Lionesses).
Angharad James (Tottenham Hotspur Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Amy Rodgers (London City Lionesses).
Foul by Angharad James (Tottenham Hotspur Women).
Amy Rodgers (London City Lionesses) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Substitution, London City Lionesses. Lucy Fitzgerald replaces Lois Joel.
Substitution, London City Lionesses. Rianna Jarrett replaces Sarah Ewens.
Foul by Drew Spence (Tottenham Hotspur Women).
Atlanta Primus (London City Lionesses) wins a escaped footwear connected the near wing.
Substitution, London City Lionesses. Lucy Shepherd replaces Karin Muya.
Goal! Tottenham Hotspur Women 5, London City Lionesses 0. Eveliina Summanen (Tottenham Hotspur Women) close footed changeable from the centre of the container to the bottommost near corner. Assisted by Nikola Karczewska.
Foul by Drew Spence (Tottenham Hotspur Women).
Sarah Ewens (London City Lionesses) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.
Harley Bennett (London City Lionesses) is shown the yellowish paper for a atrocious foul.
Celin Ildhusøy (Tottenham Hotspur Women) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.
Foul by Harley Bennett (London City Lionesses).
Attempt saved. Karin Muya (London City Lionesses) close footed changeable from the close broadside of the container is saved successful the apical centre of the goal.
Foul by Eveliina Summanen (Tottenham Hotspur Women).
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