Picture special as Rockettes beat Wimborne – and next up it’s QPR in the FA Cup

In just the fourth minute, the Rockettes got on the attack as Rhiannon Hambleton sped down the left before crossing it low. That was gathered but the clearance went only as far as Sophie Humphrey who hit one from the edge of the box but that was also saved.

Nicole Robinson pulled out a great save to deny a long range effort in the 9th minute. Then Lou Lou Robson cleared it off the line from the resulting corner kick. Another Hambleton cross, this time from the right, was cut out by the goalkeeper.

The opening goal came from Bognor in the 15th minute as Alice Gue capitalised from the loose ball from outside the box to score low into the bottom left corner. Humphrey had the ball in the net seconds later but she had strayed offside and so the goal didn't stand.

Bognor extended their lead in the 23rd minute after Kate Delillis picked out Hambleton on the left. Her cross was knocked into the path of Humphrey and from close range she steered it in. And Bognor went further ahead in the 27th minute as a ball beyond defence picked out Humphrey who did well to play the ball to the back post for Hambleton to divert in.

Wimborne got a goal back just a minute later as they fired it in from the edge of the box. Then Bec Bell-Thorns curled in a cross and it was headed out to Delillis on 36 minutes, but she steered her low effort bobbling wide of the left post.

Lucie Wright bagged Bognor's fourth of the afternoon straight from a right hand free-kick. She curled it in nicely with her left foot on 43 minutes. HT 4 - 1

Good work from Delillis and Bell-Thorns on the right led to Carter being teed up inside and she hit one from distance. But the ball flew wide of the left post on 47 minutes. Sophia Poling's long range freekick was good, into the area. Then it was headed back out to her and she followed up with a powerful hit that bounced wide.

On 57 minutes Robson and Gue came off for Ellie Jefkins and Lou Selvester. Bognor conceded their second of the afternoon as a swift move saw a defensive mistake allow the visitors in, to run beyond defence and find the net low in the bottom corner on 62 minutes. On 65 minutes Poling tried again from distance from her freekick. From way out she clipped the crossbar.

The bounce had beaten Robinson following a long range freekick into the area, meaning a corner for the Magpies. But Robinson redeemed herself as she confidently caught the corner kick in a crowded area. A long ball through the defence saw Bell-Thorns speed through and get into the area. Her eventual strike was good but it was well parried out one handed by the goalkeeper on 72 minutes.

On 75 minutes it was played square by Delillis to Millie Carter and she fired it from distance just over the bar. Then Poling hit her direct freekick into the wall and on the rebound Wright fired it powerfully over.

Poling hit another free-kick from distance and that forced a fingertip save from the goalkeeper inside the 2nd minute of stoppage time. But it was comfortable in the end for Bognor's women's team as they remain unbeaten this season.

They have a big game next in the FA Cup Third Qualifying Round as they welcome Queens Park Rangers to Nyewood Lane on Sunday (4th October) with kick off at 2pm.