Exeter City Women will be hoping for third time lucky this weekend as they travel to Selsey, the third scheduled date for this fixture with the British weather preventing both previous games from going ahead.
A summer overhaul in the playing squad left Manager Rhys Griffiths starting the campaign with a young inexperienced team and the new look Seals have found life tough at National League level. However, despite relegation now looking a certainty, the West Sussex side have not allowed the steepest of learning curves to derail the team, with an intent to always improve in the face of adversity.
Selsey have suffered defeat in all sixteen of their league games to date but will take confidence from recent fixtures in which Keynsham Town, Torquay United and Southampton Women’s FC have seen the opposition record narrower victories than in previous contests. The two sides have met once already this season, City hitting fourteen at the Hub in an afternoon that saw Connie Pengelly and Sarah Stacey both score four goals.
Such is the nature of the title race that City are involved in, there can be no room for sentiment on Sunday. With goal difference a factor between the Grecians and AFC Bournemouth, and with Selsey still to travel to face the Cherries, Abbie Britton and Aaron Wakley’s side will need to be ruthless on Sunday and build their goal tally. With six games to go every fixture is now vital and the path to success is a clear one, six wins will guarantee promotion and the run to the finish line begins with Sunday’s visit to the Seal Bay Resort Stadium.
