It’s the old phrase about ‘concentrating on the league’ for Watford Women after they were beaten 1-0 at Plymouth Argyle in the FA Women’s National League Cup on Sunday afternoon.

A week earlier the Hornets made their exit from the FA Cup when they were defeated at Oxford United by the same scoreline.

They still have aspirations for promotion from the National League South, where they currently sit sixth in the table with games in hand on all the teams above them.

However leaders Ipswich are 12 points ahead of them and the Hornets only have one game in hand, so they will need them to drop points somewhere along the way.

On Sunday it was a Lulu Jarvis header shortly before the half-hour mark that sent the hosts through to the last four at Home Park.

Despite having chances and enjoying plenty of pressure, the Golden Girls could not find a deserved goal after their long journey to Devon only a week after the men had made the same journey.

The Hornets enjoyed the majority of possession in the opening stages and saw a Drè Georgiou shot blocked on its way to goal.

Annie Rossiter then fired over the bar before Jarvis nodded past Jacqui Goldsmid for what turned out to be the game’s decisive goal.

Rossiter went close again after the break before the Golden Girls were extremely unlucky not to get back on level terms.

Coral Haines’ strike from the edge of the area came back off the crossbar and Melis Mehmet was unable to turn the rebound home.

Jarvis fired over the bar for Argyle before Watford sub Ellie Head forced a good close-range save from home keeper Comfort Erhabor.

In the end it wasn’t to be for the Hornets, and they now league trip to Billericay Town (Sunday December 15).

Watford: Goldsmid, Filbey, Davison, Perry (Hall 72), Rossiter, Lazaro (Fyfe 60), Georgiou, Chandler (C), Hind, Haines, Mehmet (Head 72). Unused subs: O'Sullivan, Meiwald.