Watford Ladies head coach Katie Rowson says the Golden Girls are still searching for a 90 minute performance after they lost 5-0 against London Bees at Vicarage Road.

Jo Wilson scored a 24 minute hat-trick in a nightmare start which saw Watford go in 4-0 down at half-time before Paula Howells scored a fifth in the 90th minute.

Rowson was forthright in her assessment of the performance and bemoaned a slow start which scuppered any chance Watford had of taking anything from the game.

“At full-time I just said we weren’t good enough today [to the players]. We were nowhere near good enough all over the pitch,” Rowson explained.

“Our aim today was still to go after that 90 plus minutes performance and we didn’t produce over the 90 minutes. It just so happens that this week in my eyes it was the first 25 minutes.

“The first 25 minutes to a point killed off the game and then it was a case of what can we do from here.”

The Bees were in the ascendency from the off and could have been further ahead at the break such was their dominance.

They looked like scoring every time they came forward and while Watford were better in the second half they barely lay a glove on their opponents.

Watford are still searching for their first win in the Women’s Super League Two after the result and are rock bottom of the table ahead of a trip to Oxford United on Sunday.

Rowson admitted her disappointment at the lack of intensity shown by her side and now wants to see an improved display in Watford’s next game.

She said: “We need to see some more desire and some more drive. I think we saw that even in the last 10 minutes.

“I don’t think the work rate was good enough to chase the ball, to press, and you could see that when we did press and when we ran at them we caused them problems.”

If there was a positive to be taken from the evening it was the introduction of Giulia Ferrandi and Anne Laure-Davy who both made their debuts for the home side.

The match represented a thankless task for the forwards as they were starved of service, but Rowson was nonetheless impressed with her new charges.

She said: “I thought they were great additions and they were really, really good. We are still not getting anywhere near what we want in the final third.

“The new recruits are both forward players and I thought it gave us some really good options, but again it is down to execution.”