Women's Preview: Saints vs Blackburn Rovers

By SFC Media time Sat 11 Mar Saints vs Blackburn Rovers
Photo by Isabelle Field | Southampton FC Women

Southampton FC Women welcome Blackburn Rovers to St Mary’s in the first of a hat-trick of three home Barclays Women’s Championship fixtures this month.

THE MATCH
Saints vs Blackburn Rovers
Barclays Women’s Championship
St Mary’s Stadium
Sunday 12th March, 2pm
For ticket details, see below

Saints will be looking to bounce back from defeat as Blackburn make the long trip down to the south coast for Barclays Women’s Championship action.

Blackburn currently sit tenth in the table, with three losses and two draws in their last five games, including a 3-1 defeat to bottom-of-the-table Coventry United.

Saints’ aforementioned defeat came to Charlton Athletic at The Valley, where an off-colour performance saw Marieanne Spacey-Cale’s side leave frustrated with the 1-0 scoreline.

With both sides looking to put wrongs right, and with a return to home support as an extra boost, Sunday’s meeting is set to be an entertaining one.

THE OFFICIALS
Referee: Laura Van Lier
Assistant Referee: Gareth Dunn
Assistant Referee: Rhiannon Stevens
Fourth Official: Benjamin Duffill

WHAT KIT WILL SAINTS BE WEARING?
Saints will be in the iconic red and white strip to take on Rovers.

LAST MEETING
A wet and windy Ewood Park played host to the previous meeting between these two sides in which Saints were unfortunate not to take all three points. A late goal from Saffron Jordan cancelled out Katie Wilkinson’s opener.

TICKET DETAILS
There’s still time to grab a March bundle which gives you access to all three Women’s home games during the month for the price of two!

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Not going to be able to catch all of March’s home action? We’re sorry! But you can still get your tickets just for Blackburn below:

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MANAGER’S NOTES
“We were all disappointed by our most recent result, but we’ve worked hard during the week to put that behind us and look ahead to Blackburn.

“They made it hard for us at Ewood Park and we will need to be ready to overcome that in order to get any kind of result.

“It will be fantastic to be back at St Mary’s with the vocal support, and that will be a big boost for the girls on Sunday for what I know will be a competitive and entertaining encounter.”

KEEP UP TO DATE
Can’t make it to St Mary’s? Keep up to date with behind-the-scenes content and action on the dedicated Women’s channels:
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Please note that there will be no live commentary due to the clash with the Men’s first team fixture at Manchester United and lack of dual streaming capacity on southamptonfc.com.

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