Leeds United Women return to Adobe Women\u2019s FA Cup action this afternoon, facing Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield Town Women in the second round proper.<\/p>\n
To progress to the second round proper, Leeds defeated FC St Helens Women 5-1 at Garforth, thanks to goals from Kath Smith, Sian Gibrill-Keating, Chloe Dixon and a brace from Brittany Sanderson.<\/p>\n
Simon Wood has named an unchanged side from the narrow defeat to tier-above West Bromwich Albion Women in the FA WNL Cup last time out, following a two week break after the York City Ladies clash was postponed.<\/p>\n
Carrie Simpson starts between the sticks, with a back four of Izzy Elliott, Shauna Legge with the armband, Emily Cassidy and Darcie Greene ahead of the stopper.<\/p>\n
The midfield trio of Alice Hughes, Ellie White and Kath Smith remains ever-present, as does the attacking line of Drew Greene, Sian Gibrill-Keating and Chloe Dixon.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Oates is joined on the bench by former Terrier Macy Ellis, Ruby Waldron and a place for Ava Spencer-Smith, who steps up from the Under-23s.<\/p>\n
Starting XI:<\/b> Simpson (GK), Elliott, Legge (C), Cassidy, Darcie Greene, Hughes, White, Smith, Drew Greene. Gibrill-Keating, Dixon.<\/p>\n
Subs: <\/b>Oates (GK), Ellis, Waldron, Spencer-Smith.<\/p>\n
Huddersfield: <\/b>Davies (GK), Stanfield (C), Mallin, Lord-Mears, Beresford, Housley, Biggins, Gindra, Firth, Burgess.<\/p>\n
Subs: <\/b>Joyce (GK), Jones, Gill, Brown, Keane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leeds United Women return to Adobe Women\u2019s FA Cup action this afternoon, facing Yorkshire rivals Huddersfield Town Women…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8814],"tags":[748,393,4884,1860,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-588742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-leeds","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-leeds","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}