Brentford Women 3 Farnham Town 3 (4-2 penalties): Bees claim back-to-back Capital Cups after shoot-out joy | OneFootball

Brentford Women are Capital Cup champions for the second year in a row after beating Farnham Town 4-2 on penalties following a 3-3 draw in normal time.

Karleigh Osborne's side were made to work hard against the team in the division below as an Ashley Cheatley strike and Chloe Logie brace looked to have won Brentford the game, however a late header in second-half stoppage-time sent the game to a penalty shoot-out. Two impressive saves from Sophie Boycott allowed Cheatley to score the winning spot-kick.

The final started in an even manner as both sides had good spells of possession in the opening 10 minutes of the game.

On 12 minutes, the match burst into life as Brentford took the lead. Logie did excellently to pivot and shoot in the box and despite her effort striking the post, Nikki Woods was quickest to the rebound to give them the lead.

Farnham did probe the edge of the Bees' box for an extended period after going a goal down and their equaliser arrived eight minutes after conceding as Maya Adams' delivery into the penalty area found the head of Mia Delaney, who guided into the far corner.

Adams was causing problems down the left side and it took good defensive work from Carolin Engelhard to delay the winger and ensure she could not get a shot on goal.

Habeebat Gbajabiamila was next to go close for the Bees and after good work in the box her chipped effort only just went over.

The west Londoners were beginning to build momentum and a great Woods cross found Logie whose headed effort was tipped over by the goalkeeper.

Emily Foss had the last chance of the first period for Farnham as she smashed the crossbar with an effort on the edge of the box.

Foss had the first chance of the second period, too, and when put through on goal, she found the bottom corner of the net with a great finish.

Farnham did well to contain Brentford for most of the half but after a flurry of second-half substitutions from Osborne, the west Londoners equalised. Alissa Down powered an effort onto the crossbar but Cheatley was in the right place to turn the ball into the net.

Boycott made an impressive save to deny Adams and keep the scores level following the goal.

On 81 minutes, Logie was in the right place at the right time to latch onto a lofted through ball and lob the goalkeeper from just inside the box as she grabbed her brace and the Bees' third.

With three minutes to go in stoppage-time, Farnham found a dramatic equaliser as Anya Kinnane looped a header over Boycott from a corner to take the game to penalties.

Two great saves in the shoot-out from goalkeeper Boycott allowed Cheatley to take the fourth and winning spot-kick following successful efforts from Woods, Maddie Phillips and Engelhard.

Osborne's side secured their first piece of silverware of the season with the impressive comeback and then eventual penalty shoot-out victory.

Attention now turns to next weekend when the Bees can secure the league title and promotion to tier five on Sunday 4 May away from home against Clapton Community.

Brentford Women: Boycott, Engelhard, Graver, Potter (Read 73), Holmes, Aboul-Kheir (Down 58), Wood, Gbajabiamila (Phillips 52), Troth (Worsley 58), Logie, Woods (Cheatley 52)

Farnham Town Women: Stait, Comerford, Kinnane, Miller, Leys, Theocharous, Thornton, Delaney, Varney, Foss, Adams

Subs not used: Averill, Davies, Hall, Frost

Osborne: I'm super proud of the group

Brentford Women head coach Karleigh Osborne praised his side following their penalty shoot-out victory against Farnham Town in the Capital Cup final.

The win handed the Bees their first piece of silverware for the season and their third trophy in the last two campaigns.

"That's a brilliant result to hold onto the cup, which is a difficult thing to do," said Osborne.

"Winning it the first time was extremely tough, but holding onto it's even tougher.

"I'm super proud of the group, everyone involved. I'm a bit speechless, but I thought they were brilliant today.

"We've got some magnificent characters in this group and that's the bit that we're showing. At times last year we maybe didn't show it enough, but this year I think every individual is showing that character."