The Ladies could have jumped to the top of their table in the Cheshire Women’s and Youth League after their match against Brookvale Ladies at the weekend, however the team failed to take their chances and frustratingly, took away a point.

The Ladies looked the stronger team from the whistle, attacking in numbers and also in confidence.

This quickly payed off inside fifteen minutes when Courtney Beeston ran down the left side of play, pulled it back to Lucy Wright on the edge of the box who then set up Captain Shannon Moores up for a shot outside the area.

There were multiple chances for Sandbach to put theirselves way ahead in the first half but the ladies unfortunately could not get on the end of it.

This proved an issue when after 37 minutes of play, a gap opened up for Brookvale amongst the Sandbach defence and their striker Hollie Keating managed to lift the ball into the net past Dani Taylor.

However, Sandbach reacted well to this and on the stroke of half time, the ball was knocked through to Courtney Beeston who skill-fully took the ball around the Brookvale keeper to put Sandbach back in front just before the break.

Into the second half, Sandbach once again had their chances.

In the 57th minute, centre-back Zeta McCormack had a long range shot inside Brookvale's half which was narrowly tipped over by their keeper.

Olivia Lovatt and Jess Welch also had chances on goal but were unable to beat the shot stopper.

Despite possession being held predominately by Sandbach, a gap opened up for the opposition and Frankie Valdez placed the ball in the back of the net past goal keeper Dani Taylor.

However, with fifteen minutes to go, Sandbach United did not back down and continued to push Brookvale for a last minute winner.

Chances continued to emerge for Sandbach in the last few minutes but were once again unable to score and had to settle for a point.

When asked about the nail biting game, manager Stephen Wright said: “Today was a game where everyone on the side watching thought we should have won.

“The chances we created yet again, should have got us home and dry but we failed to capitalise on them.

“It is so frustrating because we could have gone top today due to the fact that other teams in the league have slipped up.

“However, despite the Christmas break, I thought we played really well and now we will look ahead to next week when we play them again and should hopefully beat them once and for all.

Captain Shannon Moores said: “Overall our performance was good and we controlled most of the game.

“We created a lot of chances but could have scored more.

“As a whole, we out played them and we shouldn’t have conceded two goals.”

The Ladies face Brookvale again next weekend in what will have been a difficult back-to-back fixture.

However, the Ladies still remain the only unbeaten team in their league and sit in a comfortable fourth position with three games in hand over leaders Brookvale.

Player of the Match for Sandbach United was Millie Turner.

Stephen Wright said: “Once again, Millie had great composure on the ball, playing the simple passes needed to bring the team back under control.

“I cannot fault her work rate once again.”

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