Norwich City 0-4 Ipswich Town Women: Match report and pictures

Ipswich Town Women had a commanding derby day victory with a 4-0 win over Norwich City in the determining round of the FAWNL Cup at Carrow Road.

Joe Sheehan's side are the first Ipswich side since Jim Magilton's team in 2006 to win at Carrow Road and continued the Women's sides dominance in this fixture after triumphing in the last meeting between the sides back in 2020.

The first half was largely dominated by the third tier side but were met by a stubborn defence from the home side in a half of very few chances.

All the chances fell to Town with the best of them in the 15th minute when Leah Mitchell was unlucky to see her curling effort smash the bar before ex-Town goalkeeper, Sarah Quantrill, denied Angela Addison on the rebound.  

Shauna Guyatt comes agonisingly close to open the scoring. (Image: Ross Halls)

Only five minutes later Shauna Guyatt saw another effort from the edge of the box pushed wide by Quantrill.

Town continued to dominate but found the route to goal hard to break down as they pushed late on to take an advantage into the break.  

After the break the pattern remained the same with Town pressing while Norwich looked to hurt on the counter.

Summer Hughes celebrates after opening the scoring from the bench. (Image: Ross Halls)

Just on the hour mark Town made three changes with Natasha Thomas, Sophie Peskett and Summer Hughes all coming on, with the former two almost combining straight away before two minutes later it was the latter who opened the scoring with a low drive just outside the box.

Just a couple minutes after that Thomas made it two with a free header from a Guyatt corner to put the Blues in firm control after a frustrating hour of Norwich resistance. 

Addison added a third into the final quarter as she swept home from the penalty spot after a superb cutback by Peskett.

Sophie Peskett celebrates rounding off the scoring in an emphatic Town victory. (Image: Ross Halls)

She then went one better to make sure all three substitutes on the hour mark had scored as she bamboozled two markers before unleashing a a thumping strike into the top corner.

The game petered out after that with the about 800 strong away fans Jubilant at the final whistle in a an overall crowd of 4,751 that was a record attendance for the Women's derby match. 

Norwich City: 1. Quantrill (C), 5. Flye, 6. Morran, 9. Smith (26. Booty 90), 10. Snelling, 12. Medd-Gill (22. Shaw 69), 18. Symonds (17 Densley 80), Hailes, 20. Moore (14. Powell 84), 25. Strauss, 32. Kennard (23. Cook 80), Unused: 33. Locker, 2. Johnston. 

Ipswich Town: 1. Negri, 4. Fleming (C), 6. Mitchell (2. Boswell 76), 9. Fisher (7. Thomas 59), 11. O'Brien (10. King 76), 12. Bryant (17. Peskett 59), 20. Wearing, 21. Barker (3. Hughes 59), 22 Williams, 23. Guyatt, 24. Addison, Unused: 31. Hartley.