Town Women and Chorley share the spoils from a tight 0-0 draw

Glen Preston's side could not quite do enough to secure three points that would have put them level with Chorley in the table

Katie Astle

FAWNL Division One North’s third and fourth place went head-to-head in the sun at Storthes Hall. The weather may have been bright, but the match was a gruelling battle where neither team could land a significant enough blow to get on the scoresheet.

Town Women played their penultimate home league fixture of the 2024/25 season against a well drilled Chorley side. After falling to a 1-0 defeat in the reverse tie, Town wanted to display more than what they did last time.

The Terriers were missing Club Captain Beth Stanfield and top scorer Charlotte Stuart for this fixture. Stuart, who took a nasty knock to her ankle last weekend, is still ‘touch-and-go’ for whether she will be able to get back out on the grass before the conclusion of this season.

Manager Glen Preston said:

“It was a tough, tough game but it was probably the right result. I think in terms of balance of chances, Chorley created one or two more over the 90 minutes, but in terms of threatening counter-attacks where we have broken through and they were at our mercy, I think we had all of those kind of moments from the game.

“I am disappointed that we haven’t been able to put them to the sword with that, because I thought that they were there for the taking on the counter.

“Chorley counter-press aggressively, and I mentioned that in our analysis and prep, but what we also identified was key space where we could break through that, and we did.

“We broke through that on five or six moments, and like I say, we had them at our mercy. There were plenty of 3v3 or 3v2 situations in our favour, and Chorley were stretched and wide open.

“They are the moments that you have really got to seize, if you’re going to win these sort of matches.”