Wolves 2 (Marshall 13 & Greengrass 75) Watford 2 (Wilson 62 & Poole 68)<\/p>\n
Wolves Women played out a hard-fought 2-2 draw against Watford Women in the WSL 2.<\/p>\n
An opening goal from Georgia Marshall and a second-half equaliser from Charlotte Greengrass ensured Wolves maintained their unbeaten home start to the campaign at SEAH Stadium.<\/p>\n
Wolves\u2019 first foray forward yielded a half-chance as Emily Orman\u2019s weighted pass found Amber Hughes. The striker then turned well and released Melissa Lawley, who charged forward before her cross was well blocked.<\/p>\n
The Hornets created their first opportunity in the seventh minute, but Florence Fyfe couldn\u2019t find the required dip on her shots as it curled over Orman\u2019s crossbar.<\/p>\n
Watford built on their foothold in the game and looked to find the opening goal from a corner. However, Georgia Marshall headed Phoebie Poole\u2019s dangerous delivery away from danger before clearing a second cross with her head moments later.<\/p>\n
The end-to-end nature of the match continued, and it was Wolves who broke the deadlock in the 13th minute. Marshall continued to dominate in the air, this time heading home a brilliant Lawley corner to give her side the lead.<\/p>\n
Marshall\u2019s opener did not deter the visitors, though. Watford came forward from the restart and forced a fingertip save from Orman, with the ball going out for a corner via the crossbar.<\/p>\n
The game briefly settled as Wolves nullified the volume of Watford chances; the momentum became increasingly one-sided at the halfway point of the first period.<\/p>\n
However, on the half-hour mark, Orman was called into action again, this time diving to her left to deny Tianna Teisar inside the penalty area.<\/p>\n
The Old Gold responded with a chance of their own as Lawley was played in behind Skyers. Her cross narrowly evaded Hughes\u2019 sphere before Yana Daniels\u2019 shot was wide of Safia Middleton-Prince\u2019s near post.<\/p>\n
That proved to be the final act of an action-packed first half as Wolves took the lead into the interval.<\/p>\n
Half-Time | Wolves 1-0 Watford<\/p>\n
Unlike the early stages of the first half, the second began with a more measured approach from both sides.<\/p>\n
The visitors were denied a clear opening at goal after Orman was almost caught on the ball by Poole, but the goalkeeper was able to clear to thwart the Watford attacker\u2019s advances.<\/p>\n
On the hour mark, the Hornets found the equaliser. A free kick was floated into the penalty area and controlled by substitute Wilson, who found the back of the net from close range.<\/p>\n
Watford continued to dominate and took the lead in the 68th minute. Poole headed a dangerous cross over Orman to leave Wolves trailing.<\/p>\n
However, with just over 15 minutes to go, the Old Gold were handed a golden opportunity to equalise.<\/p>\n
A dangerous corner resulted in Chloe Williams\u2019 shot being blocked by a hand. Substitute Greengrass wrapped the spot-kick home emphatically to leave it all to play for at SEAH Stadium.<\/p>\n
With just under a minute to play, Marshall had the chance to win the game for Wolves, but her header was straight at Middleton-Patel.<\/p>\n
Watford had the chance to win the game from a free-kick in the last minute of added time, but a combination of the crossbar and Orman was enough to prevent the visitors from snatching all three points in Telford.<\/p>\n
Full-Time | Wolves 2-2 Watford<\/p>\n
Wolves | Orman, Matthews, Marshall, George (Francis 84), Hughes (Greengrass 67), Lawley (Worsey 67), Olding (Filis 76), Sims (Jenner 84), Dani\u00ebls, Roberts, Williams<\/p>\n
Unused Subs | Brooks, Morphet, Anderson, Jones<\/p>\n
Watford | Middleton-Patel, Lyon (Chandler 53), Skyers, Neville, Clancy (Kuyken 64), Noble, Jones, Poole, Teisar (Bailey 64), Muya, Fyfe (Wilson 53)<\/p>\n
Unused Subs | Williams, Greenwood, Paul, Gray, Haines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wolves 2 (Marshall 13 & Greengrass 75) Watford 2 (Wilson 62 & Poole 68) Wolves Women played out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-791994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}