LEWES 0ALBION 2
D Cooper '7
Gurr '44
- Charlotte Gurr and Deanna Cooper on target for Albion
- The Seagulls remain top of the league
- James Marrs’s side are unbeaten in eight matches this season
- Albion claim a league double over Lewes
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The Seagulls remain top of the Premier League Southern Division table with 19 points from seven games and are still unbeaten this season.
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The game began in a lively fashion, as Lucy Somes saw her shot from distance rise over the crossbar before Deanna Cooper gave Albion the lead after seven minutes.
Somes's initial free-kick was saved by Lewes keeper Lauren Dolbear, but the shot-stopper pushed the ball straight into the path of Cooper, who headed home for her third goal of the season.
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Lewes sought to restore parity to the scoreline straight away, as former Seagull Cherelle Khassal’s shot was saved by Faye Baker.
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But Albion began to assert their dominance on the game, and Dolbear had to be alert to push away Kate Natkiel’s effort before dealing with two attempts by Charlotte Gurr.
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Amy Taylor hit the side-netting following a sweeping Albion move, before Gurr’s strike cannoned off the cross and Natkiel could not make a decent connection with the follow up.
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The Seagulls doubled their advantage just a minute before the interval when Natkiel’s cross from the right-hand side was slotted home by Gurr at the far post.
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James Marrs’s side could have scored a third goal when Gurr’s shot was cleared into the path of Taylor, who blasted a shot over the bar.
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The hosts had a spell of pressure midway through the second half, as Khassal’s cross was met by Katie McIntyre but her effort rebounded off the woodwork.
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Gurr continued to be central to Albion’s attacking play and her corner found Cooper inside the box, but the defender could not make a decent connection with the cross.
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Kirsty Barton was next to try her luck from distance, but her looping shot did not trouble Dolbear.
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Khassal was involved in the thick of the action again for Lewes shortly afterwards, as her strike went wide of Baker’s left-hand post.
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Brighton looked to add extra gloss to the scoreline in the closing stages when Taylor's cross from the right-hand side went across the face of the Lewes goal and eluded substitute Charlotte Markham.Charlotte Young then had a shot blocked inside the box, but the Seagulls did not add to their first-half tally and claimed another 2-0 win over their local rivals.
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ALBION: Baker; C Cooper, D Cooper, Ashton-Jones; Leitch (Markham 45), Barton, Blackie, Gurr, Somes (Boswell 68); Natkiel (Young 76), Taylor.
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SUB NOT USED:* Fox.
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