November 13th 2026.u15 Girls win again.
Wolverhampton Schools’ u15 Girls team welcomed Brighton to Lilleshall for their final Champions Cup group game and what a Friday 13th it turned out to be. Our girls played with confidence and energy from the first whistle and created a succession of excellent chances during a first half in which they enjoyed the majority of possession.
The Brighton goalkeeper was certainly kept busy throughout and showed her worth very early on when she came out to narrow the angle and deny Leja, after Jess Pullan had made a superb run out of defence and split their defence wide open with a perfectly timed pass.
Wolverhampton continued to threaten but somehow the visitors survived. Grace’s excellent header struck the far post with the goalkeeper beaten after she met Georgia’s corner. Rosie shot narrowly wide and excellent combination play from Emma and Trinity helped create another opportunity for Georgia before Rosie saw yet another of her efforts well saved by the keeper.
Georgia was also becoming increasingly influential, with her runs into the penalty area and one shot in particular looked bound for goal only to crash against the post and deny us yet again and when their keeper somehow produced excellent saves to deny Leja twice it looked as though we would never score.
Fortunately the second of these saves resulted in the award of a corner and it was delivered so brilliantly that it enabled Jess Pullan to produce a superbly controlled left-footed volley from close range. It was a quality finish which gave the goalkeeper no chance and was certainly well deserved.
Grace came close to adding a second with a free kick which flew just over the crossbar, but Wolverhampton had to settle for a 1-0 lead at half-time despite considerable territorial, and attacking, dominance.
Our girls picked up exactly where they had left off after the interval and straight from the restart, Jess Pullan played an excellent ball out of defence to release Georgia down the right
but there was no-one able to put the finishing touch to her superb cross into the box. Surely a second goal had to come and again Georgia was instrumental in the build-up providing a super pass for Grace to double our advantage.
Leja was next to test the Brighton goalkeeper, before a clever header forward from Izzy Godfrey released her to guide her shot across the goalkeeper and into the net for 3-0. Not content we continued to press, with efforts from Izzy Godfrey and Rosie well saved before we scored our fourth.
This was yet another excellent example of Wolverhampton’s attacking quality. Jess Osbourne delivering a superb cross from wide on the right, and Leja turning in at the near post after timing her run perfectly.
A thoroughly deserved victory and a performance of real quality from the Wolverhampton girls. They combined excellent defensive work with confident passing, movement and a constant attacking threat and the number of chances created, the quality of the goals and the contribution of the whole team made this a particularly impressive display. Great composure and determination throughout and a performance for which the girls can be extremely proud.
Squad: Poppy Pitt, Issy Campbell, Eesha Sidhu, Trinity Donaldson, Priya Kaur,
Kyla Stephens, Leja Lopetatite , Jess Osborne, Jess Pullan,
Georgia Hambrook, Amaya Whitter , Izzy Godfrey, Emma Halford,
Rosie Butler-Hollington, Nya Nwafor, Grace Lambert.
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