Wolves Women celebrated their first-ever Barclays WSL2 victory with a 3-1 win over Sheffield United, Elise Hughes scored all the goals in Sunderland’s 2-1 victory at Burnley.
Burnley 1-2 Sunderland
Nottingham Forest 2-2 Watford (Att: 1,178)
Southampton 0-0 Ipswich Town
Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1 Sheffield United
Leicester City 4-2 Durham
Wolves got their first points on the board with a home success over Sheffield United.
Amber Hughes scored Wolves’ first-ever WSL2 goal, from outside the box just four minutes into the second half,
Amy Sims followed up from a similar distance to double the lead.
Mollie Rouse quickly pulled one back for Sheffield, but they were caught on the break as Yana Daniëls made it 3-1.
Elise Hughes scored all the goals in Sunderland’s 2-1 win over Burnley at Turf Moor.
She put Sunderland ahead from just a couple of yards out, but 10 minutes later scored an own goal.
Then, in the 98th minute, Hughes grabbed the winner from Natasha Fenton’s cross.
Nottingham Forest retrieved a two-goal deficit to rescue a point at home to Watford.
Zara Bailey scored Watford’s first goal since their return to the league, following a corner kick in the opening quarter of an hour.
They were soon two up with a Saoirse Noonan header from a Madison Perry cross.
With 45 minutes on the clock, Alana Murphy replied for Forest from outside the box and Chantelle Boye-Hlorkah squeezed home the equaliser before the hour was up.
Watford held on as Boye-Hlorkah hit the bar in stoppage time.
Leicester City overcame an early setback to defeat Durham.
Durham scored via an early break, with Beth Hepple set up by Jade Pennock.
Paulina Nyström brought Leicester level with an assist from Sam Tierney, Jess Ziu and Asmita Ale both scored in first-half added time to give the Foxes a 3-1 lead at the interval.
Pennock gave Durham hope, reducing the arrears to one with a quarter of an hour remaining, only for the own goal by Sarah Wilson to restore the two-goal cushion.
Southampton and Ipswich Town played out a goalless draw.
The Saints moved up to four points and the Tractor Girls began their campaign with two draws.
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