If promotion to the Women's Super League is won at the end of a blistering Championship season, Bristol City Women will certainly need to recall matches like this.
A slow start turned into a comfortable 3-0 win as goals from Gracie Pearse, Grace Clinton and an own-goal by Durham’s Becky Salicki extended the Robin’s winning streak to five matches in the league.
The victory keeps Lauren Smith’s side six points clear of their rivals London City Lionesses in their hunt for the WSL promised land. And while a home win and clean sheet over a team ranked eighth in the league is far from an acid test of City’s potential top-flight mettle, but it certainly builds momentum as Smith’s head into an exacting final stretch of fixtures in which they face the three teams clamouring just beneath them all away from home.
