\n They made sure of their place in the last-eight of the competition via a comfortable 4-0 home triumph against Penybont on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n
\n This brought the curtain down on 2025 action for Jenny Sugarman\u2019s charges and they can now look forward to what they will be hoping is a momentous 2026.\n<\/p>\n
\n Clark, who grabbed one of the goals, told the club\u2019s YouTube channel: \u201cObviously, very pleased.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI think it was a professional performance from ourselves and we managed to get the win, which was the most important thing, I think, especially with being in the final for the last two seasons.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cIt\u2019s something that we definitely want to progress in.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n While a four-nil outcome looks to be a comfortable one for the Reds, this wasn\u2019t the case and they had to wait until first half stoppage time before they opened their account.\n<\/p>\n
\n Clark added: \u201cI think they gave us a lot of challenges in the first half and I think… we had to manage that and kind of find out the answers ourselves, and I think as the game progressed, we managed to open them up and that proved with the amount of goals that we got in the second half, and we created a lot of chances as well.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Sugarman rotated her squad yet again for the Red\u2019 second cup tie in a fortnight, as goalkeeper Chloe Ankers was given her second start of the campaign.\n<\/p>\n
\n Rosie Hughes and Abbie Iddenden were selected to lead the line at the Rock. Adran South Penybont did make Wrexham wait to make their breakthrough.\n<\/p>\n
\n The visitors produced a fine defensive showing, but this resolve was finally broken in first half stoppage time when Hannah Snape scored from distance. Snape fired a dangerous effort into the back post and this flew into the far corner of the net.\n<\/p>\n
\n Any hopes Penybont may have had of forging a fightback were virtually extinguished a dozen minutes into the second half.\n<\/p>\n
\n Josie Smith produced an excellent cross in behind the defence and Hughes showed great composure to tap home, scoring for the fifth consecutive match.\n<\/p>\n
\n Substitute Katie Barker, the Reds\u2019 leading scorer this season, was able to make it 3-0 and put the game to bed, while Clark added the home side\u2019s fourth goal late on.\n<\/p>\n
\n It was a first goal since September for Clark, who said: \u201cYeah, special! I think it\u2019s a long time coming.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily find myself on the scoresheet often. So, when it comes, it\u2019s a great feeling to have.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Reflecting on her side\u2019s success, head coach Sugarman said: \u201cWe had to work really hard, particularly in that first half, to create the chances that obviously came a lot more in the second half when the space opened up.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cI thought credit to the opposition, they got bodies behind the ball really, really quickly, worked really hard to make it difficult for us and I think first half, we struggled to find the right patterns.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cBut, I thought second half, we were excellent, finding our nines, wide players in behind, our full-backs joining in.\n<\/p>\n
\n \u201cYeah, just really pleased with the clean sheet. Pleased with the four goals in the end and a couple of really, really good performances out there today. I thought Josie Smith was excellent.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\n Next up, on January 4, Wrexham will head south to tackle second-placed Cardiff City in the league.\n<\/p>\n
\n Then, seven days later, the Reds host Briton Ferry Llansawel with a place in the final of the Adran Trophy at stake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They made sure of their place in the last-eight of the competition via a comfortable 4-0 home triumph…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-364496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}