Forest Green Rovers Women defeated Sherborne Town 3-0 to complete a perfect trio of matches at The New Lawn.

Goals from Erin Williams, Rhian Robbins and Leilani Ryder secured the victory as the home side moved to third in the table and above their opposition.

The home side looked to take the control of the match early on with the first chance coming from Tyra Wilson’s cross which was spilled by Emily Wilkinson but unable to be turned in by Williams.

Two minutes later, Williams managed to put Forest Green in front when she picked the ball up in midfield and drove at the defence slotting the ball into the bottom right-hand corner.

After the goal, Sherborne had a glorious chance to level the match, which was squandered, and Wilson was released for Rovers but couldn’t apply a finishing touch.

Just before the break, the lead was doubled as Robbins bundled Williams’ corner into the back of the net by Wilkinson in goal.

The second half started slowly with the closest chance going to Wilson when she decided to go for goal from 30 yards out with the ball ultimately going over.

Substitute Ryder made an instant impact in the match after she blocked a kick from Wilkinson and then when the ball fell to her feet, she managed to control her finish by the goalkeeper for the third of the game.

It could’ve nearly been four soon after as Williams got the ball on the right-hand side, but her curling effort went just wide.

Sherborne could’ve pulled one back when Chloe Snook was released one-on-one with Flo Stiddard, but the post came to the rescue.

Kimmi Tanner-Joyce saw her effort go wide off target which then started a flurry of chances for both sides in added time which didn’t result in anything.

Forest Green Starting XI: Stiddard, Brittain, Butterfield, Jones, Martin, McGrath, Norwood, Randall, Robbins, Williams, Wilson. Subs: Birchley, Dowling, Ryder, Tanner-Joyce, Taylor