Report: Comfortable victory for Palace in south London derby

Women

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On a blustery afternoon at the VBS Community stadium, Palace blew away south London rivals Charlton Athletic in a 2-0 victory in the Women's League Cup.

Summary:

Kaminski names a much rotated side from the defeat to Villa, with Sharpe, Atkinson, Larkin, Arthur and Aspin all being handed starts at the VBS
Filis has her shot well saved by Majasaari after it took a significant deflection
Weerden opens the scoring with a lovely finish into the bottom left corner
Gejl drives at the Charlton goal and doubles Palace's lead with a powerful strike from outside the box
HT: Palace 2-0 Charlton
Blanchard flashes a shot wide of the post after some excellent build-up
Charlton go close to pulling one back but the shot is blocked by Aspin
Sharpe puts a perfect ball in, but there is no-one there to head it in
Gibbons blocks a certain goal on the line
FT: Palace 2-0 Charlton

Palace Women bounced back after their late defeat to Aston Villa last week, with a comfortable X victory over Championship Charlton Athletic in the Women's League Cup.

Ashleigh Weerden opened the scoring on 12 minutes, having broken away from the Charlton defence.

Building on her impressive cameo at Villa Park last week, the summer signing picked the pocket of the Charlton defender, and guided an accurate finish into the bottom corner.

13 minutes later and Mille Gejl put Palace two goals ahead, with a powerful drive into the corner from outside the box.

Palace were on-top for much of the second half, with Annabel Blanchard coming close to a third with an effort from 20 yards out that narrowly missed the target.

Head coach Laura Kaminski made some changes in the second-half and Palace eventually ran out comfortable 2-0 winners in Sutton.

Palace: Majasaari (GK), Gibbons, Aspin, Arthur (Potter, 82), Everett, Sharpe (Riley, 82), Gejl, Larkin (Pritchard, 57) , Blanchard (Cato, 57) , Weerden, Atkinson (Stengel, 68)

Subs not used: Yañez, Woodham

Charlton: Whitehouse (GK), Newsham, N'Dow, Bradley, Filis (Brazil, 60), Hutton (Siber, 82), Barton (Muya, 60), Skeels, Bashford (Ademiluyi, 82), Roe (Pearse, 54), Primus

Subs not used: Gray (GK)

This result moves Palace into 3rd in Group E, with it still all to play for on the 11th December, when we will host Tottenham Hotspur.

You can get tickets for that fixture and for our final home game of 2024 here.

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