Super Swansea City hit Barry for six to narrow the gap on Cardiff City
SWANSEA, WALES - 04 SEPTEMBER 2022: Swansea City Ladies Stacey John-Davies during the Genero Adran Premier fixture between between Swansea City Ladies FC & Cardiff Met WFC on September 4th, 2022, Swansea.com Stadium, Swansea, Wales. (Pic By John Smith/FAW)
Swansea City closed the gap at the top of the Adran with a rampant second-half performance at Jenner Park, defeating Barry Town United 6-0. A brace from Stacey John-Davis along with goals from Nia Rees, Nieve Jenkins, Monet Legall, and Shaunna Jenkins saw the Swans to a comfortable victory.
Despite five second-half goals, it wasn’t plain sailing for the Swans, at 0-0 a missed penalty from Barry’s top goalscorer, Mackenzie Olden, prevented the chance of a potential upset.
Swansea who dominated the first half with possession and peppering the Barry Town box found their first chance on 10 minutes when Nia Rees’ cross found John-Davis who headed off the crossbar.
Despite Barry’s efforts to contain the Swans their biggest chance came within 20 minutes. A Taite Trivett counter-fed through Olden who was brought down by Jenkins in the box and with no hesitation a penalty was awarded.
Olden, who had scored seven of the Linnets’ goals this season, couldn’t convert, sending her spot-kick over the crossbar.
After a number of chances in the opening half, the Swans finally settled their frustrations in 44 minutes. A ricocheted pass out from the back from Barry fell into the path of John-Davis for her to slot home for her fifth league goal this season.
The Swans didn’t let up in the second half. Just two minutes into the half, they doubled their lead through Rees. A parried shot from John-Davis fell nicely to Rees to tap home.
John-Davis could’ve had many more in the second half but a combination of poor finishing in one-on-ones and great keeping from Erin Brennan kept the Town modest until the late stages.
Katy Hosford had a quiet game despite having four goal involvements in her last two matches. She wasn’t being stopped from adding to that though; a pinpoint corner found Jenkins who headed home to make it 3-0 just after the hour mark.
Insult to injury was added in the final minutes, when Legall added to the scoreline with a headed effort from close range.
John-Davis completed her brace eventually with a one-on-one in added time along with a 40-yard free-kick lobbing effort from Shaunna Jenkins to complete a 6-0 win and three goals in six minutes to finish the game.
Barry couldn’t produce anything of a comeback and despite sparks of positivity on the break, the experienced Swans defence always kept them out to keep the clean sheet.
Barry Town United: Brennan ©, Jenkins, Ebbin, Trivett (Parry 89’), Houghton, Olden, Pearce, Nicholson (Davies 89’), Lockwood-Jones (R. Thomas 59’), Mulenga, Fahey-Pennell (Jones 80’).
Subs not used: L. Thomas.
Swansea City: Herbert, Lake, Beynon ©, Adams, N. Jenkins (Adams 76’), Hosford, John-Davis, Horgan, Rees (Freeman 70’), Williams (S. Jenkins 76’), Cullen (Legall 56’).
Subs not used: Tiley.
Yellow Cards: N. Jenkins 19’.
Goalscorers: John-Davis 44’, 90+1’, Rees 47’, N. Jenkins 65’, Legall 88’, S. Jenkins 90+4’.
