Watford Ladies are still searching for their first win in Women's Super League 2 after going down 2-0 at home to table-topping Bristol City on Sunday.

The lady Hornets, who announced the signing of six new players in one day on the eve of the season, sit bottom of the pile with just one point to their name after four matches.

That came courtesy of a 2-2 draw in their opening fixture away at London Bees and it is the fourth-from-bottom Bees they face in their next two matches in a league and cup double header.

The Bees are this Sunday’s visitors to the ladies’ Berkhamstead home for a WSL Continental Tyres Cup clash before they clash again in the league in the Golden Girls’ only scheduled fixture at Vicarage Road on Monday, May 16.

After a tricky run of fixtures that has seen the Golden Girls pit their wits against three of the division’s top sides without any success, the match under the Vicarage Road lights offers Katie Rowson’s side a good opportunity to achieve lift-off in the league and climb off the bottom rung ahead of their next league encounter with third-from-bottom Oxford United.

But the coach is taking nothing for granted ahead of the trilogy.

She told Watford's website: “I don’t think there’s going to be any easy games. There’s five teams that have made it very clear that they want to win the league.

“We’re never going to have an easy game because like us, Bees and Oxford are coming up against those teams week in, week out.

“They’ll be looking at the next few games exactly the same, we’ve all had hard games against sides that want to win the league and now we’ve got to go up against each other.

“There will be battles and hopefully they’ll be fair and aggressive battles but we look forward to progressing and moving on.”

But she knows her side will have to stop conceding the soft goals that have been their Achilles heel and cut out their habit of starting slowly and surrendering the early initiative to their opponents if they are to change the tide of results.

Rowson said after Sunday’s defeat at the hands of the in-form Bristolians: “We need to change the storyline. It keeps being silly goals let in and a better more organised performance in the second half.

“In terms of effort, I cannot fault anybody, they ran themselves into the ground.”

But the goals the Hornets conceded were again a major source of frustration for her.

Rowson said: “The goals that we let in were so soft and I know I’m saying the same thing every week.

“I didn’t think we were under the cosh as much as maybe we were at Everton last week, it really could have been a 0-0 draw.

“Having said that Bristol City are a very good side and I’m sure they’ll be happy with three points in the bag but we can definitely do a lot better.”