Northern Ireland completed the double over Malta as two goals from Ellie Mason fired them to a 4-2 win in their Women’s World Cup qualifier in Ta’ Qali.<\/p>\n
Having sealed a comfortable 4-0 win at Mourneview Park on Tuesday, Michael McArdle’s side had their shooting boots on again as they doubled their points tally in Group B2.<\/p>\n
Charlton’s Mason headed home her first international goal from a corner to open the scoring in the 40th minute at the Centenary Stadium but saw the effort almost immediately cancelled out.<\/p>\n
Ponderous defending allowed Maria Farrugia to pounce and she beat Bristol City team-mate Jackie Burns in the away goal.<\/p>\n
Mason restored her side’s lead with an excellent strike from 20 yards and Natalie Johnson gave some breathing room with another headed effort from Danielle Maxwell’s delivery.<\/p>\n
Rebecca Holloway was sent off for a second yellow card at 3-1 but Leyla McFarland added a fourth after her dismissal. Leah Ayres pulled one back for Malta but it was too little, too late for the hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland completed the double over Malta as two goals from Ellie Mason fired them to a 4-2…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-406126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}