LONDON, CMC – Jamaica worldwide Khadija “Bunny” Shaw buried a powerful first-half hat trick as Manchester Metropolis crushed Tottenham 7-0 within the Ladies’s Tremendous League.
The 26-year-old struck 3 times within the house of quarter-hour to place Metropolis 3-0 up at half-time at Manchester Metropolis Joie Stadium on Sunday earlier than Laura Coombs (59th, 90+) scored twice and Lauren Hemp (forty eighth) and Jill Roord (53rd) added strikes of their very own.
With the hat-trick, Shaw took her tally for the season to a joint league-leading six targets, alongside Chelsea’s Lauren James and Tottenham’s Martha Thomas.
“Yeah, I’m happy for Bunny,” stated supervisor Gareth Taylor.
“Other than the targets, her efficiency was good as properly. [She] held it up properly, put them underneath stress on the prime finish, and bought an help.
“She’s an enormous participant for us, which can have given her confidence tonight.”
Shaw’s opening purpose got here within the twenty third minute, the bodily six-footer racing into the field and out-leaping the Spur’s protection to move Leila Ouahabi’s cross powerfully previous Reggae Women goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer.
Metropolis’s 2022-23 Participant-of-the-Season, Shaw doubled the hosts’ lead within the thirty second, producing a scientific stooping header to transform Roord’s low cross.
And Shaw capped off a scintillating first-half show by netting her third within the thirty eighth, full again Laia Alexandria placing a ball into the field the place she discovered house between defenders to pivot and end from 17 yards.
Hemp curled in a fourth from the top of the field after a rebound fell to her, and Roord added a fifth when she headed in Hemp’s looping cross from the goal-line.
There was let up from Metropolis, nevertheless, and Coombs got here off the bench within the fifty fifth minute to web her brace, serving to to ship Metropolis third on 16 factors and 6 factors off leaders Chelsea.
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