Emily Ramsey the Penalty Hero for Aston Villa Women

Emily Ramsey the Penalty Hero for Aston Villa Women
Goalkeeper Emily Ramsey Photo by Sean Chandler SPP

Emily Ramsey saved two penalties as Aston Villa Women win shoot-out after late equaliser from Birmingham City in the Subway Players Cup.

Bristol City 1-6 Tottenham Hotspur (Att: 496)
London City Lionesses 4-2 Crystal Palace
Manchester United 3-0 Burnley (Att: 1,875)
Sheffield United 1-2 Everton
Aston Villa 1-1 Birmingham City (Att: 1,746)
Charlton Athletic 1-2 West Ham United
Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-6 Brighton & Hove Albion

Birmingham City deny Aston Villa victory at the death but lose shoot-out.

Mathilde Harviken grabbed the opener for Villa with 21 minutes of the 90 to go.

But four minutes into added time, Martha Harris equalised for the Blues.

Villa banked a bonus point 6-5 on sudden-death penalties, as Emily Ramsey saved twice, to move on to 11 points from their four games.

Tottenham hit hosts bristol City for six.

Spurs stormed into a 4-0 lead with Shekiera Martinez scoring twice, Olivia Holdt and Signe Gaupset also on target before Rio Hardy pulled one back close to the break. Matilda Nildén restored the four-goal cushion before Martinez completed her hat-trick.

London City secured a fourth straight win in the competition with a 4-2 victory over Crystal Palace.

Izzy Goodwin gave the Lionesses the lead just before half-time and struck again by the hour mark. She went on to complete her hat-trick, with Annabel Blanchard pulling one back. Freya Godfrey scored a fourth for the hosts and Shannon O’Brien got a second for Palace in stoppage time.

Manchester United stayed top of the group stage table with a win against Burnley.

Ellen Wangerheim’s goal was the only difference between the sides at the halfway point.

Lea Schüller bagged a brace to make sure of all three points.

Everton took the points with a 2-1 win at Sheffield United, extending their 100% record to a third game.

Rosa van Gool and Noémie Mouchon had the Toffees two goals to the good within quarter of an hour.

Lucy Willis replied for the Blades but with added time already underway.

West Ham’s Morgan strikes a swift brace in win at Charlton.

Ffion Morgan found the net for the Hammers twice in a three-minute spell approaching the interval.

Grace Johnston halved the deficit midway through the second half but there would be no leveller.

Brighton ran out 6-0 winners at Wolves.

Caitlin Hayes needed only four minutes to give the Seagulls the lead, which was doubled in first-half added time by Olaug Tvedten.

Four minutes after the restart, it was 4-0 thanks to efforts from Emilie Joramo and Taylor Warren.

Emily Murphy converted a penalty and Maelys Mpomé got a late sixth.

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