Beth Mead scored a hat-trick as we kicked off our Continental Cup campaign in impressive style on Sunday, beating London City 5-0 at Princes Park.
Lia Walti was named in the starting XI for the first time since suffering a knee ligament injury last January, 252 days ago, while Pauline Peyraud-Magnin, Emma Mitchell and academy product Melissa Filis all made their first starts of the season.
That meant there was a total of six changes from our 1-0 win over Manchester United last week, but there was no sign of rustiness in the performance.
Mead kicked things off by forcing Lucy Thomas into a difficult save from distance inside 30 seconds, before Jill Roord saw her low drive cleared off the line.