United boss laments defending as Rovers take the points

MANAGER Lee Burch admitted Coventry United Ladies conceded “three really poor goals” as they lost to Blackburn Rovers in yesterday’s Barclays Women’s Championship fixture at Bamber Bridge.

Two goals from Farah Crompton and one from Saffron Jordan, on her 200th appearance for Rovers, settled the points with Meesha Dudley-jones and Anna Wilcox on the scoresheet for the visitors.

“There were not enough positives to take from the game, nowhere near enough. It’s different when you lose 3-2 to maybe a Birmingham but not enough today” said Burch.

“I don’t think we worked the goalkeeper enough second half, we huffed and puffed. The problem is overall we’ve given them three really poor goals, that’s the issue. You can’t give a team at home away three goals like we have done.”

Wilcox brought down Crompton in the box and Jordan stepped up and buried the ball in the bottom right corner from the spot past keeper Eleanor Heeps to give Blackburn the lead after four minutes.

But it was 1-1 on 17 minutes when Dudley-jones’s long-range chip bounced off the post.

Blackburn regained their lead eight minutes later after Compton curled the ball round the ‘keeper into the bottom-right corner and she made it 3-1 eight minutes into the second half after getting the better of a defender and nudging the ball past the ‘keeper from close range.

Coventry got a goal back on 59 minutes when Blackburn failed to defend a corner and Wilcox headed home.

To follow the action and sign up for The FA Player’s live Barclays FA Women’s Super League coverage visit womenscompetitions. thefa.com