Swansea City vs Cwmbran Celtic Ladies

Match Report

Swansea City, lying 3^rd in the Genero Adran Premier League, were hot favourites to win this cup semi-final played at Jenner Park, Barry but they took the field determined not to underestimate us, remembering their previous cup match against our women at Cwmbran Stadium in 2023 in which Celtic were 3-2 ahead before ex-Celtic Welsh international Chloe Chivers scored 6 goals in a 7-3 win.

After 20 minutes of sparring in which keeper Amie Preston-Roberts saved from Taite Trivett and Maisie Morris, put through by a glorious long ball by Chelsea Cochrane, shot wide, and Chloe Chivers shot over the bar, the Swans took the lead when Stacey John strode in at the far post to meet Trivett’s cross from the left to score. Preston-Roberts saved another shot from Trevett and Casey Daniels shot over the bar before, on 29 minutes, Swansea went two up when Aimee Deacon converted a Chivers cross at the near post. Summer Bowen-Quirk played a perfect long ball out of defence to play Morris down the middle and the striker’s shot scraped the bar. Swansea made it 3-0 in the 41^st minute when a ball out of defence by Finch reached Trivett whose cross found Deacon at the near post to score her 2^nd goal. Just before half time Trevett and Chivers both hit the post for the Swans.

On 51 minutes Swansea went four ahead. A long ball out of defence by their captain and ex-Celtic player Jessica Williams put Stacey John down the right wing. Her cross was met by Trivett sprinting in from the left wing to smash the ball home. The play became scrappy over the next 20 minutes until Swansea scored two more goals in 2 minutes. Stacey John’s shot was saved by Amie Preston-Roberts, but the rebound fell kindly to John to score her second goal in the 71^st minute and one minute later Miller’s cross to Chivers was laid off by Chloe to substitute Emily Richards who side-footed the ball into the corner of the net. Swansea dominated the remainder of the game with their slick passing game, but we stuck doggedly to the task with Amie Preston-Roberts saving a snapshot from Richards and tipping a rasping drive from Chivers onto and over the bar for a corner.

This was a great experience for our squad whose battling performance did manager Georgia Shwartz proud. We now move on to contest two games against league leaders Cardiff MET which could decide the destination of the title, and, later this month, another cup semi-final against old rIvals Cacade YC.

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