WOODLEY United Ladies produced an excellent display to ease past Wycombe Wanderers Ladies 3-1 in Division One of the Southern League.

Woodley were in the ascendency from the kick-off, forcing the home keeper Amy Batkin to push a Mollie Haines shot onto the crossbar and out for a corner.

This was followed by Haines shooting straight at Batkin following good work by Nicole Haines and Rosie Page-Smith seeing an effort go wide.

The deserved breakthrough came in the 13th minute when Nicole Haines’ pass to Bonnie Messitt allowed the forward to run one-on-one at Batkin and open the scoring.

This prompted a response from the home side with Emily Sherwood being called on for the first time and comfortably catching a long-range shot before United continued to pressure the home defence, with May Hamblin enjoying her best game for the team on the left flank.

She was a danger throughout the game and was repeatedly denied by Batkin, while also narrowly failing to get on the end of crosses along the goal area. She also saw a first-half shot hit the outside of the upright.

The closest Wanderers came to scoring in the first half was in the 34th minute – a shot from distance going wide – such was performance of the visitors’ defence, ably marshalled by captain Ellen Surtees.

The second half could not have started better for the visitors with Page-Smith heading home two minutes into the restart from a Surtees free-kick.

Eva Thomas shot wide before Messitt completed Woodley’s scoring in the 63rd minute when she lobbed Batkin from 20 yards following a Mollie Haines pass.

Although Woodley did not score again they remained the dominant side with May and Mollie Haines continuing to cause problems on both flanks.

Wycombe’s only joy came four minutes from time when a shot from the edge of United’s penalty area beat Sherwood to deny the team a deserved clean sheet.