Up next: Kempton Girls (A)

Two games, two wins. Can't ask much more than that, and it's the start that Kempton Girls have put together.

Their opening-day 10-1 dismissal of Colne Valley Blues was followed with a 3-0 win at Abbey Rangers, whom Teddington had demolished 9-0 in a monsoon-shortened season opener.

It would be easy to note the difference between those scores against Abbey and adjudge Teddington the better team, but danger lurks there. Abbey didn't look a particularly poor team against a well-organised Teddington, and may have improved dramatically with match experience. Similarly, Kempton didn't hit double figures that first week by accident.

Last season, Kempton finished fourth from bottom in an 11-team Division One featuring five of the teams making up this season's six-team Division Two – the other team being newcomers Teddington.

In 2012/13, Kempton gathered 17 points from 20 games with apparently extreme economy: they won five games despite only scoring 14 goals, the division's second-lowest total; they conceded 64, the division's second-highest.

That often means narrow wins against the teams at the bottom, coupled with heavy losses against the teams at the top. But it could also point to an initially struggling team staging a late-season recovery.

Certainly the evidence of this season points to a decent team: 13 goals scored to only one conceded (note that the official table seems to cap victories at eight-goal margins, which seems fair enough if applied across the board).

Specifically, on the opening day of 2013/14 Kempton hit double figures against Colne Valley, a team they'd only finished a point clear of last season. That could mean Colne (who won the following weekend) had an off-day, but it could also mean Kempton could be Teddington's strongest opponents this season. The girls will have to be on their guard against their opponents' potential as well as their own complacency.

MATCH DETAILS 
Sun 22 Sep 2013, 2pm kick-off at Chennestone Primary School, Manor Lane, Sunbury-on-Thames, TW16 5ED - roughly 15 minutes from Teddington. Girls should be there by 1.25pm please.


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Notes from the host club: Strictly no dogs; no smoking on the school grounds; please park on Manor Lane rather than in the school car park.

Squad: Charlotte, Ella P, Millie T, Millie Mc, Ruby, Emily, Ale, Phoebe, Sophie, Sadie, Sinead.