Worcester City Women beat Kidderminster Harriers Women in cup semi

Harriers scored twice in the final ten minutes of normal time to send the tie to penalties after Olivia Mitcham's double had put the visitors 2-0 up. 

Both sides missed two penalties in the shootout before it went to sudden death and City keeper Alisha Hine made the decisive save to send City into the final.

🧤The save that takes us to the Final! pic.twitter.com/0RasUEEuc5

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It sparked jubilant scenes amongst the players and the bench, who joined Hine to celebrate beating the Worcestershire County Cup champions and reaching the final.

Worcester players celebrate with keeper Alisha Hine after her save won them the penalty shootout (Image: Paul Hickey)

Manager Matt Lock certainly went through all the emotions on the night but admitted he "couldn't be happier". 

"The last ten minutes were certainly a little bit tense and it was all a bit of a blur but I couldn't be happier with my team," he said. 

"We've been on a journey together and at times it's been hard. There has been a lot of things to overcome and we have had some heartache along the way but the girls have been different class.

"Sometimes you wonder if you are going to get what you deserve and we definitely did in the end. We knew they would come at us in the final minutes and they did just that but we got over the disappointment of not winning in 90 minutes but we showed great determination and I could not be prouder." 

Goal scorer Mitcham echoed the comments made by her boss; "We certainly didn't make it easy for ourselves. In the first-half we defended a lot and worked really hard and got the first goal at a really good time. 

"We then scored quite early in the second-half but we just let it slip away late in the second-half. But we have played a lot of football in the last 10 days so maybe that had something to do with it.

"But then we got the job done on penalties so we got there in the end."