High-flying pair braced for new battle of Sussex

Crawley Wasps v Chichester City, Woodside Road, Worthing, Sunday, December 9, 1pm

Jade Widdows scored a stunning flying header when Chichester City visited Crawley Wasps for a friendly in 2016 (Photo: John Holden)

It’s a good time for women’s football in Sussex.

Brighton are plying their trade in the top division of the English game, while Lewes have stepped up to the second level, where they are gradually adjusting to life.

Looking to catch them up, Chichester City and Crawley Wasps are enjoying unprecedented success in the two tiers below.

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Bogey team Worthing hold Newhaven to historic first draw

South East Counties League Premier Division

Worthing (1) 2 (Kirby 32; Humphrey 75)
Newhaven (2) 2 (Winchester 9; Cannon 40)

Having been the first team ever to beat Newhaven earlier this season, classy Worthing rubbed salt into their wounds by twice coming from behind to hold them to a first ever draw in an entertaining game at Woodside Road that had a bit of everything.

Extra-time agony for Oakwood as Bexhill United squeeze through

South East Counties Women’s Football League Cup 1st Round

Oakwood and Bexhill United are a division apart but it took nearly two hours to separate them

Oakwood (0) 0
Bexhill United (0) 1 (Mitchell 116)

Bexhill United squeezed into the second round of the South East Counties League Cup with a late, late extra-time winner to break plucky Oakwood’s hearts.

Thaxter double keeps Lancing title chase on course

AFC Littlehampton (0) 0
Lancing (2) 2 (Thaxter 39, 41)

Two defensive howlers cost AFC Littlehampton dear as they surrendered their unbeaten record in a convincing – and perhaps a little painful – defeat to the team they left behind. 

Clinical Stanway shows wasteful Brighton how to finish

City’s biggest win of the season lifted them to second, behind Arsenal, in the FAWSL (Photo: Geoff Penn/BHA)

Brighton (0) 0
Manchester City (2) 6 (Stanway 21, 63, 67; Weir 41; Parris 87; Emslie 90)

Super-slick Manchester City put on a commanding display to keep in touch with runaway leaders Arsenal at the top of the FA Women’s Super League and once again demonstrate to newly elevated Brighton how far they still have to go.

Teenage starlet Georgia Stanway gave Hope Powell’s strikers a lesson in how to finish, clinically dispatching three of her handful of chances while Brighton were left ruing their missed opportunities at the other end which might at least have earned them a more respectable scoreline.

Free-scoring rivals fail to bring their A-games to Sussex stalemate

Burgess Hill Town (0) 1 (Bardea 53)
Steyning Town (1) 1 (Elliott pen 29)

The division’s two highest scorers came together for what promised to be an entertaining goalfest.

Amerena and Newman light the way on a sparkling night for Sussex

Lauren Amerena was in magnificent form for Sussex Schools (Photo: Simon Roe)

Sussex Schools U19 (4) 6 (Amerena 11, 46, 53; Newman 26, 39; Walker 35)
Chichester University (1) 1 (Staple 30)

They call it a schools team, but Sussex’s under-19s are grown up in every sense of the word. 

Fast, skilful, well-organised and strong enough to withstand any sort of challenge – and return with interest – this crop of talented teenagers are going to go far.