Everton Women 6-0 Durham Women: Momiki and Mouchon hat-tricks sink basement side
Everton Women put on a ruthless second-half display to thrash Durham Women 6-0 at Goodison Park in the WSL Players Cup, with Yuka Momiki and Noémie Mouchon each grabbing hat-tricks as the Blues cruised to a fourth straight win in the competition.
Jutta Rantala got things moving in the first half, finishing from a dangerous Everton move in the 20th minute to put the hosts ahead. That early breakthrough settled any nerves and allowed Everton to dominate the remainder of the half, even with Hannah Silcock picking up a yellow card on 29 minutes.
The floodgates really opened after the break. Momiki struck twice in quick succession either side of Mouchon's first, netting in the 51st and 71st minutes with Mouchon slotting home in between at 64 minutes. Durham simply had no answer, making a flurry of substitutions as they tried to stem the bleeding, but Everton kept finding gaps. Mouchon added her second in the 85th minute before Momiki completed her hat-trick in the 88th, rounding off a one-sided evening in some style.
Durham's afternoon was further soured by a string of bookings, with Dee Bradley, Rachel Lowe and Lleucu Mathias all shown yellow cards as the visitors struggled to contain Everton's attacking threat throughout. Everton, by contrast, picked up just the one caution for Silcock in the first half.
The result moves Everton up to second in the WSL Players Cup standings on 12 points from four games, level on points with leaders Manchester United, while Durham remain bottom of the group with five defeats from five and yet to open their account. It continues an excellent run in the competition for Everton, who go into this fixture on the back of three straight League Cup wins - victories over Birmingham, Newcastle and Sheffield United - and this emphatic scoreline extends that run to four.
For Durham, the defeat extends a miserable sequence in the Women's League Cup, having now lost each of their last four outings in the competition without scoring more than two in any of them. Everton's attacking players head into their Women's Super League schedule full of confidence following this rout, with Momiki and Mouchon both showing clinical touches in the final third that will give their head coach plenty to work with going forward.
Goodison Park has proven a happy hunting ground for Everton in this competition, and this was arguably their most complete performance of the campaign so far, with six different moments of quality turning a routine cup tie into a statement victory.
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