Four first-half goals at Parc Dwyfor seal NFA victory

Molly Brown opened the scoring for NFA. Picture: OLIVIA LOGAN – with thanks

KIA LLANDUDNO NORTH WALES COAST WOMEN’S LEAGUE – NOVEMBER 2, 2025

Llanystumdwy 1 (Savage 64)
NFA 4 (Brown 9, Duke 11, L Jones 25, Hargreaves 35)

Visitors NFA returned to winning ways with a victory clinched by a four-goal first half show.

The first few minutes were evenly contested before the Rhyl side took control of the game. In a 15 minute spell. they went 3-0 up and were good value for it.

After nine minutes, a great pass in behind the defence from Rachael Thomas put Molly Brown through on goal and she finished into the bottom left corner.

Alicia Duke scored a corker for NFA. Picture: DAI SINCLAIR

Less than two minutes later Alicia Duke won the ball in midfield before carrying it forward and striking from 25 yards over Sara Lacey in the Llan goal and into the net.

Just when the game seemed to quieten down NFA made it 3-0. Another great ball from Rachael Thomas, this time from a corner on the right, was headed home well by Lauren Jones.

Lauren Jones (lilac) headed home for NFA. Picture: DAI SINCLAIR

The best of NFA’s goals was saved until last, Kayla Hargreaves received the ball on the left hand side of the pitch in her own half and drove forward with pace towards the box. Once in the area she made no mistake as she hit a shot across goal into the top right corner.

The last few minutes of the half could have seen NFA go even further ahead if not for a great save by Lacey when Lauren Jones went through 1 on 1.

Half time; Llanystumdwy 0-4 NFA

The second half was a much more even contest, and if the home side had taken their chances it could have made things interesting.

Ten minutes into the half and Llan’s first real chance fell to Angharad Perry. Great work down the left from Seren Ellis and her cut back found Perry, whose shot hit the crossbar.

On 65 minutes Llan pulled one back. A throw in was flicked on by Hana Wellings, and Heledd Savage controlled and finished well into the bottom right corner.

In the final 25 minutes, Llan had a few chances to make it a closer game, headers from Tash Matthews and Manon Roberts going close, and a mix up in NFA’s defence from a goal kick saw Roberts win the ball in the box but couldn’t quite set herself up for a shot, meaning the game finished 4-1 to NFA

Llanystumdwy manager Sion Parry said: “We started the game really slowly today and when you play against the quality that NFA have you will get punished for it. We looked really slow and couldn’t get near them for half an hour.

“Our last 3 losses (vs NFA, Pwllheli and Llangefni) have seen us concede multiple goals in a short space of time, it was 2 in 15 minutes vs Pwllheli, 4 in under 20 minutes either side of half time vs Llangefni, and today it was 4 in 25 minutes. Even more frustratingly we’ve played well for the other 65/70 of those games but football is a 90 minute game.

“But today i was really happy with our second half, we could’ve so easily given up and let NFA run away with it, but despite the scoreline the girls gave everything until the very end and the effort they put in was second to none. And as crazy as it seemed at half time, maybe if we’d have taken one or two of our chances in the second half, who knows?”

LLANYSTUMDWY

Sara Lacey, Leonia O’Hara, Lea Ephraim, Sarah O’Hara, Heledd Savage, Tash Matthews (c), Mali Reed, Manon Evans, Angharad Perry, Seren Ellis, Hana Wellings. Subs used: Ellie Williams, Jo Cynan.

NFA

Courtney Ingram, Kayla Hargreaves, Sophie Haywood, Cadie Griffiths, Molly Brown, Georgia Williams (c), Sade Benjamin, Rachael Thomas, Alicia Duke, Lauren Jones, Cassandra Thomas. Subs used: Olivia Logan-Walsh, Mana Daneshvar, Mia Wall, Cerys Foston, Sophia Culverhouse.