By Joshua Richards

After Reading kept up the pressure on league leaders Doncaster Rovers Belles with a 4-0 win at Millwall, Kirsty McGee promised there will be no let up before the end of the season.

A hat-trick from Helen Ward and a further strike for Lauren Bruton kept the Royals hot on Doncaster’s heels as the FA Women’s Super League with BT Sport season draws to its close.

And McGee said: “We’re really happy with our performance.

“We’ve already got promotion, so the main aim now is to win the league, so we know that if we keep scoring goals and winning then we’ve got a good chance.

“Even though we’ve earned promotion, we’ll keep approaching each game in the exact same way.

“We want to win every game no matter what, in any way, but we know now it’s vital to score as many goals as we can if we want to challenge for the lead.

“It was fantastic to see Helen scoring goals again. She’s looking really sharp. It’s a shame really that it’s coming towards the end of the season, but she was fantastic.

“We scored four good goals, but I do feel that we could have got more.

“We could have just been a little bit more clinical. We created enough chances, so it wasn’t that we struggled to create them, but we could have been a bit more clinical in front of goal, to try and increase that goal difference.”

Ward broke the deadlock after 15 minutes when she latched onto a ball over the top and calmly finished into the bottom corner.

Shortly after half-time two goals in two minutes ended Millwall’s hopes of a comeback. First Ward played in Bruton to score, before the Wales international then hit her second.

And a defensive error gifted Ward the chance on goal which she accepted to complete her hat-trick on 71 minutes.

Millwall manager Dan Mlinar said: “We got beaten by a very good side. We have to take that into consideration first of all.

“They haven’t been promoted for no reason.

“We’re a young side and still a developing side, and with it being at the end of the season we knew it was going to be a tough game.

“In spells it was okay, but in other spells we were a bit outclassed.

“But we knew that was going to happen, so we probably needed to do the ugly side of the game a bit better, the pressuring, recovering and tackling.

“If we could have done that side of the game a bit better we might have competed a bit more. But we have no complaints – we were beaten by a good side.

“The two quick goals just after half-time knocked our girls for six.

“The game was gone after that. After that it was about character and resilience.”

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