{"id":188,"date":"2025-11-18T14:27:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calypso.media.uoa.gr\/2025\/news00\/?p=188"},"modified":"2026-01-13T15:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T15:59:15","slug":"loan-watch-gale-on-target-for-portsmouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calypso.media.uoa.gr\/2025\/news00\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"Loan Watch: Gale on target for Portsmouth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1045\" height=\"588\" src=\"https:\/\/calypso.media.uoa.gr\/2025\/news00\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-189\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For the third game in a row, Jessie Gale got on the scoresheet for Portsmouth in Sunday\u2019s 5-2 defeat away to Birmingham City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After her recent cameos off the bench earned her a place in the starting line-up, Gale repaid that faith by shooting through the legs of Lucy Thomas and in off the far post to continue her hot streak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Pompey are 11th in the WSL 2, level on points with Durham and Sunderland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Up in the Barclays Women\u2019s Super League,&nbsp;<strong>Rosa Kafaji&nbsp;<\/strong>came on in the 68th minute of Brighton &amp; Hove Albion\u2019s 4-1 win at home to Leicester City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cecily Wellesley-Smith<\/strong>&nbsp;was an unused substitute for the Foxes in that match. 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Lucas started the match in goal but had to be replaced at half-time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Arsenal Football Club Limited. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third game in a row, Jessie Gale got on the scoresheet for Portsmouth in Sunday\u2019s 5-2 defeat away to Birmingham City. 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