Leicester goal heroine Katie Long is expecting a grudge match when the Pukkas meet Reading in the final of the Maxifuel Super Sixes Indoor Championship at the end of this month.

The great rivals will meet at Wembley Arena on January 29 after winning their semi-finals at Loughborough University on Saturday.

Reading beat Bowdon Hightown 3-2, while Leicester walloped Sutton Coldfield 7-3 after scoring four goals without reply in the second half.

Long, who scored four goals, says it is payback time after last year's disappointment outdoors, when they won the league but lost to Reading in the play-offs.

"They are quite annoying!" said Long. "Last year we won the league and they finished fourth and then beat us in the semi-finals.

"This year they have just scraped into fourth (indoor), everything went their way and they made the final.

"We watched the first half of their game and they took their chances and Bowdon did not show up as the force they had been in the league.

"It's building up to be a proper grudge match, as always with Reading. We are due to pay them back. It will be a very intense game.

"Reading and Leicester boast the highest number of internationals players in their sides, and you train day in, day out with these players and, come the weekend, you are on opposite sides. It's competitive and they are our main rivals."

Reading lead the Premier Division with 30 points, seven ahead of second-placed Leicester.

But Long is confident Leicester can beat last year's runners-up and win the title for the second time in three years. The key, she says, is team-work.

"We just need to play as we have been playing, as a team," she said. "We don't have any solo stars. we play a team game, that's the way forward."

Long felt Leicester's superior fitness was key on Saturday in front of a 400-strong crowd.

She said: "It was quite tight in the first half and 3-3 at the break. We scored and they equalised and it went like that.

"But in the second half we scored four without reply. We are a much fitter side than Sutton and that showed towards the end of the that second half.

"We used our substitutions well and made sure people got rested. They relied on a number of key players for longer spells. In the end, the stronger side won. It was a good game for the spectators."

Long scored twice and Lauren Turner got the first of her two goals in a first half when goalkeeper Maddie Hinch saved a penalty.

After the interval, Long scored another two, and Turner made it 6-3 before Hannah Smith clinched it from a penalty corner after Sutton gambled by taking off their goalkeeper to play an extra outfield player.

"It's brilliant," said Long. "All the girls are overwhelmed by it all. We missed out last year when we got to the semi-finals. "Everyone just wants to show what we can do."