Away Trip to Newcastle on a dreary cold Sunday morning in December, but this is the Vitality Womens FA Cup so anticipation was high.

4’: A Newcastle out swinging free kick is put over for a corner.
4’: GOAL to the home team 1-0 as the corner is met with a header which hits the bar and goes in.
7’: Let off as Newcastle get in behind Reds defence and hit the post.
9’: Another free kick for the home side

11’: Woodhouse goes down the right and puts in a great ball, but there’s nobody quite there to make a connection.
14’: Foye gets back and puts it out for another corner.
14’: It’s once again met by the Newcastle attacker but this time it’s put over. Still 1-0.
15’: GOAL the Reds defence is penned in by the home side’s press and the Newcastle midfielder glances up and scores from 35 yards. 2-0.
16’: Greene cuts inside and picks out Watson, but she struggles to get the ball out of her feet and her shot is blocked and held by the goalkeeper.

22’: Boyes is out quickly to thwart the Newcastle through ball into the box.
25’: Quick thinking from Woodhouse as she takes down the pass from Greene with her chest and hits a left footed volley, but it’s caught by the goalkeeper.
29’: Some tidy midfield play from Smith & Tugby leads to Woodhouse getting into the channel but she is intercepted in the area.
30’: Smith has some time and space on the edge of the box but it’s just over.
31’: SUB | Myles on for Foye.
33’: Boyes parries a looping cross and sets off the counter attack, but it comes to nothing. Still 2-0.
35’: SUB | Troake for Butcher.
37’: Yet another dangerous set piece but it bounces and finds Boyes.
39’: A quick sense of urgency leads to Reds first corner of the game. Tugby to take.
42’: James intercepts and plays it wide to Darcie, who draws the foul.
43’: Smith again finds a pocket of space but fires over on the volley.
45+1’: It’s good play between Tugby and Greene as we press high and Tugby’s cross is spilled but there’s nobody there to tap in.
HALF TIME. 2-0.
46’: Really positive start as Myles gets forward and wins a free kick as her cross is handled.
47’: Tugby’s cross is straight at the goalkeeper.
50’: Reds penned in and the home side get a corner kick.
52’: GOAL! Woodhouse finds herself out wide and whips in a delicious ball to the back post, and Greene just taps it in.2-1
54’: It’s a good strike from the edge of the box but Boyes gets her body behind it.

61’: Tugby shows her tenacity with the sliding challenge and Myles sends it down the right but there’s too much on it for Woodhouse. 2-1.
66’: Boyes with the double save!
67’: Woodhouse is clattered and Tugby stands over the free kick from 40 yards.
67’: Barraclough overlaps and plays it to Greene first time, who spins and shoots but it’s not enough to beat the GK.
70’: Let off as Reds are just too casual at the back. 2-1.
71’: CLOSE! Smith hits it on the spin and causes issues for the keeper with the bounce, but it’s just over!
79’: Corner to be taken by Tugby.
80’: It was a dangerous ball in from the corner but there wasn’t a red shirt to head home. Still 2-1.

83’: Great intensity from Woodhouse in the press and it falls to Greene, who fires wide.
86’: GOAL Mix up between goalkeeper and centre back gifts Newcastle a third. 3-1 with 5 minutes to play.
90+1’: Free kick to Newcastle after a stoppage due to injury.
90+3’: Myles strikes from 25 yards but it’s over for a goal kick.
RESULT | It finishes 3-1 to Newcastle Utd Womens FC in this Vitality WFA Cup First Round clash. Best of luck to them in the competition.
Watch the goals here courtesy of Josh Hunter who filmed from an appropriately safe distance.
Check out Newcastle's take on the game here : nufc.co.uk/matches and the thoughts of their boss
We wish Newcastle player Courtney Stewart a speedy recovery after picking up an injury in the game.
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It was a somber journey back from the North East but the Reds have played well to get to this stage of the competition but fell short of matching last season making it to the after Christmas games, maybe next season.
Back to league action next week with an away trip to Bradford City.

Barnsley Women’s Football Club knocked out of FA Cup after 3-1 defeat
The Reds were looking to emulate last year’s FA Cup heroics of reaching the fourth round.
Josh Allen

It was a gloomy afternoon in the north-east, but the magic of the FA Cup was playing on Manager Andy Glossop and his players’ minds.
The Reds had a point to prove as they hadn’t had the start to the season that they were hoping for, as they sat 10th (out of twelve) in the league.
Their opponents, Newcastle United Ladies FC, sat in seventh despite playing two games less.
Both sides needed to be positive from the off, and it was the Magpies who dominated in front of their returning home fans.
A corner in the fourth minute was met by a Newcastle player, who thundered her header in – off the bar.
They continued their grip over the game as they kept up the high press, penning the Barnsley players in, who were let off the hook as the home side struck the post three minutes later.
Lone striker Lissa Woodhouse offered herself in the channels but looked extremely isolated throughout.
Glossop’s side were left speechless as Newcastle doubled their lead with an astonishing effort from 35 yards, which beat goalkeeper Micha Boyes.
Being another goal behind seemed to kick the away side into action as Darcie Greene got on the ball and came in centrally to support Woodhouse and the duo linked up well.
A combination of tactics and injuries forced Glossop to shuffle the pack, with Taviah Myles replacing Maddie Foye at right-back and Becky Troake replacing returning Jade Butcher at centre-half.
Myles looked the more natural fit in that right sided berth, and she provided some attacking threat, but the story of Barnsley’s half was that they were unable to get bodies into the penalty area to pick up any scraps.
Glossop and his coaching staff would’ve had something to say to the players at half time, and something had been said judging by their reactions in the second half – there was a tenacity that was simply missing in the first 45 minutes.
Pressing as a unit, snapping into challenges and using the ball smarter were the most notable changes.
Nobody could embody these attributes more so than Woodhouse, who peeled out wide right once again and floated in a wonderful ball to the back post for Greene to tap home and cut the deficit by half.
The Reds had the right idea and looked to hurt Newcastle down their left-hand side, but the greasy surface was often the downfall for any through balls in the channels.
At 2-1, Barnsley were in the ascendancy and they thought they might have grabbed an equaliser as some quick thinking from a Lindsey Tugby free kick found Louisa Barraclough offering herself as she advanced from left back.
Under instant pressure, she played it on to Greene who spun her marker but didn’t get enough behind her effort to trouble the ‘keeper.
The away side continued to get in their opponents’ faces with their pressing – and were the better side – but a failure to take chances inevitably punished them.
A long ball into the penalty area was left to run as neither first half substitute Troake nor goalkeeper Boyes claimed the ball and instead, a Magpies forward pinched in to roll the ball in to make it 3-1.
Time wasting from the 52nd minute continued until the final whistle and halted any real form of momentum in the game, but Glossop’s side simply gave themselves too much to do against a well-drilled Newcastle side.
Barnsley Women now look ahead to an away league tie at Bradford City on Sunday 20 December, before four weeks off for the Christmas break.