Cardiff Met started the New Year with a bang as they put eight past Llandudno in a dominant display in the Adran Trophy.
A hat-trick from Laura-May Walkley, two from Ellie Preece and one each for Sophie Hancocks, Emily Richards and Shannon Evans secured an easy victory for the Archers in Cyncoed.
Met will now face Swansea City in a mouth-watering quarter-final, while Llandudno will focus on gaining promotion to the Adran Premier.
Having not played a match since December, few may have thought that Met would suffer from a bit of rustiness, but this thought was put to bed two minutes in. A corner from Elianna Chavez was whipped in with pace, and Dudno keeper Sara Williams came for it, but misjudged the flight of the ball, leaving Hancocks with an easy header to make, to put Met one up.
The second goal came four minutes later from another corner. This time Hancocks turned provider and Walkley was able to glance her header into the far corner.
Llandudno lost striker Sioned Phillips 17 minutes in with what looked like a nasty injury, and then a minute later, Walkley got her second of the game. Some slick passing on the edge of the box led to her firing her effort over the keeper to make it three.
The fourth goal came from another corner. Hancocks’ ball in was left alone by the Seasiders defence, and it fell to Stephanie Turner, who poked her effort towards goal, but the ball was deflected in by Walkley, who had completed her hat-trick in just 16 minutes.
Two minutes after Walkley’s third, Richards got on the scoresheet. Yet another corner was not defended properly by the visitors, with the ball this time falling to Richards, who had time to turn and pick her spot perfectly, to make it 5-0.
The Archers’ sixth goal came on the half time whistle. Walkley dribbled up the byline before cutting the ball back into the box, and Evans was there to turn it into the bottom corner, to put the home side 6-0 up at the break.
Perhaps Llandudno would have hope that the home side would take their foot off the gas in the second half but Met kept pushing. They pinned the visitors in their half for the majority of the second half and got their seventh just over ten minutes into it. Emily Allen played a wonderful through ball into Preece, who put it past an oncoming Williams.
Llandudno were dealt another blow when substitute Kelsey Hughes was forced off with what appeared to be an ankle injury.
The only way the visitors looked like they were going to score was through a Met mistake, and they had a chance to get a consolation goal from the penalty spot, after Maddie Williams was fouled by Tiggy Webb. However, Ffion Owen’s penalty was saved well by Annabel Sweeney.
Two minutes after the penalty miss, Preece got her second of the game. Chavez made a great run down the left before Preece ran onto her inch perfect pass and fired past Williams, and 8-0 was how it finished.
Player of the Match: Laura-May Walkley
It could have gone to any Archer but Walkley was superb today. Her hat-trick was well taken and her performance was a joy to behold.
Cardiff Met: Annabel Sweeney (GK), Jessie Taylor, Lauren Hutton Townsend, Tiggy Webb, Stephanie Turner (C) (Lucy Finch, 46’), Sophie Hancocks, Emily Allen, Laura-May Walkley, Shannon Evans (Kennesha Nanette, 81’), Emily Richards (Ellie Preece, 46’), Elianna Chavez
Subs: Charlotte Smith (GK), Amy Long
Llandudno: Sara Williams (GK), Samantha Jarvis-Evans, Madison Williams, Jessica Jones, Rebecca Jarvis-Evans, Maddie Williams, Sioned Phillips (Kelsey Hughes, 17’; Claire Colville, 75’), Maisy Johnson (Ceri Slaney, 45’), India Hassall, Ffion Owen (C), Bethan Smith
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