Bradford City WFC vs Newcastle United WFC Programme

Last time out: Bradford City 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
Ellie Olds in action against Blackburn.
Bradford City are out of the SSE FA Women's
Cup after Faye McCoy's 87th minute effort
secured Blackburn Rovers' passage to the
second round.
City boss Charlotte Stuart described their two
previous meetings this season as having been
settled by 'fine margins,' and that rang true
again last Sunday.
The Bantams hit the woodwork in both halves
and prevented a talented Blackburn side from
playing the football that has them favourites
to win the league this year.
But Rovers grafted and stole the win in the
dying moments, McCoy coming off the bench
to fire the winner in hard and low past
Charlotte Oates.
It was a tight and well-contested affair, with
few real chances throughout as City frustrated
Rovers but found it difficult to break through
their organised back line.
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Rovers' Ainsley Strickland fired over on the
turn early on, while Ellie Olds headed a couple
of Zoe Roberts' set pieces wide of the mark to
set the tone.
In such a scrappy encounter, balls into the box
looked the most likely source of an opening
goal as Hannah Campbell too directed one just
off target before the half hour mark.
Blackburn had their own openings in the first
period as well, with Saffron Jordan seeing a
goal disallowed for offside before Ellie Cook's
header from a corner went wide.
But it was City who had the biggest chance of
the half and it was they who came closest to
breaking the deadlock.
Laura Elford played a perfectly-weighted pass
through for Campbell, and her arrowed effort