MARIEANNE Spacey-Cale watched her Saints Women side win a third 9-0 of the season but warned “we can’t be this wasteful in front of goal” against title-challenging teams.

So far in the National League Southern Premier, her team have won seven games from seven and have only conceded one goal – having scored 40.

They top the table with only Ipswich Town having also kept up a 100% record at this stage of the competition.

This time, it was Keynsham Ladies who received a ruthless routing at the hands of Spacey-Cale’s dominant Saints unit, but after only leading by two in the first half it wasn’t enough to leave her fully impressed.

Speaking after the game, she told the club website: “This league is really tight and only one team can go into the play-offs.

“So we know that we’ve got to be really focussed and really sure in what we believe in, how we play, sure in each other as people that we have got the desire to keep pushing for three points every game we play.

“There’s four or five teams around us that we’re yet to play, they’re the games we have got to play and they will give us a different type of challenge, we have got to be ready for that challenge and to be better in front of goal.”

Some of those tougher challenges coming up include local rivals Portsmouth, Oxford United and fellow table-toppers Ipswich in December – by which point the league will have taken further shape, and a play-off fate could well be all but decided.

She added: “They’re the teams that are going to be up there challenging as well.

“So we have to prepare for those games the same as we prepare for any game in terms of believing in ourselves, but also like I just said we can’t be this wasteful in front of goal because you will get minimal chances in those games.

“It’s so important that when you do get the chance you put it away. We are under no illusion that we have started well but we’ve got some big challenges to come.”