Five-star City cruise into Cup semi-final

City cruised into the semi-finals of the Somerset FA Junior Cup with a 5-0 win over Stockwood Wanderers Women at Twerton Park this afternoon. The tie was effectively over after City struck three times in the opening 19 minutes. Adella Clarke steered home the opening goal from 15 yards on nine minutes. Two minutes later Wanderers keeper failed to hold Maddie Brown’s cross and Clarke tapped in her second goal. Poppy Spratt made it 3-0 when Brown brought down Erin Duffy’s cross and set her up to finish neatly. City continued to dominate the game and Clarke was only denied a first half hat-trick by the post just before the break. The visitors improved after the interval but City struck again on 65 minutes when Tara Taylor fired a left-foot shot into the roof of the goal. And City secured their biggest win of the season with ten minutes left when substitute Koz Thorner-Atkinson broke forward before driving a low shot into the net.