\n Facing Denham at Reading City, Oxford City Women lost 2-1 in their first cup final of the season.\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite pulling a goal back through top scorer Ellie White, the team could not equalise to push the match to penalties.\n<\/p>\n
\n The match began poorly for Oxford City, with Denham scoring within five minutes. A penalty awarded after Poppy Gorman’s handball on the line, taken by Brogan Moore, put Denham ahead.\n<\/p>\n
\n Oxford City responded, with attempts from Billie Bough-French and Grace Craven, but Denham’s defence held firm.\n<\/p>\n
\n On the stroke of half-time, Denham doubled their lead through Niamh Cashin\u2019s close-range finish, leaving Oxford City with a two-goal deficit. Eight minutes into the second half, Oxford City found a lifeline.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ellie White, scoring her 20th goal of the season, netted with a lob over the Denham keeper, making it 2-1.\n<\/p>\n
\n Despite relentless pressure from Oxford City, Denham’s defence stood strong, denying any further goals. The match concluded without any late drama, ending in Denham’s favour.\n<\/p>\n
\n Oxford City will now focus on the County Cup, where they will face Kidlington.\n<\/p>\n
\n The team, including players such as Kiera Maskell, Gorman, Bough-French, Prescott-Luke, Wellington-Faissal, Lester, Craven, Walecki, Ayres, E White, and Harris, will be eager to make amends.\n<\/p>\n
\n Substitutes included Parsons, Davis, O\u2019Leary, White, and Ranxha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facing Denham at Reading City, Oxford City Women lost 2-1 in their first cup final of the season.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177976,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-177975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}