LONDON, CMC – Jamaica Girls’s worldwide Khadija “Bunny” Shaw continued her wealthy vein of scoring kind with a first-half brace to propel Manchester Metropolis Girls again to the highest of the Girls’s Tremendous League on Sunday in England after they drubbed West Ham United Girls 5-0.
The 27-year-old set three goal-scoring data on the Joie Stadium and helped propel Man Metropolis Girls to their thirteenth successive WSL win, surpassing the earlier better of 12 in the course of the 2020-21 season and enabling her aspect to leapfrog Chelsea to first place – albeit having performed yet one more match than the defending champions.
Leila Ouahabi gave the hosts the proper begin with a aim within the first minute earlier than Shaw scored her twentieth aim two minutes later, equalling her tally from final season with three matches remaining.
She introduced down a drilled cross earlier than impressively swiveling and firing into the highest nook, making her the primary participant to document a aim contribution in 10 successive WSL matches.
It additionally made Jamaica the second lady to attain 20 objectives in two totally different WSL seasons after Australia worldwide Sam Kerr achieved the feat, scoring 21 for Chelsea in the course of the 2020-21 season and 20 extra the next time period.
The aim additionally gave Shaw forty ninth within the WSL, and she or he solely needed to wait one other 19 minutes to make it 50 in solely her 57th look within the match, turning into the eleventh lady in historical past to realize the feat.
She expertly misplaced her marker within the space to move dwelling a pinpoint cross from Lauren Hemp on the left to achieve the landmark within the second-fewest variety of matches.
Vivianne Miedema of Arsenal was the primary to attain 50 objectives within the League in an astonishing 50 matches – and Shaw is simply the second non-European after Kerr to attain 50 WSL objectives.
Laura Blindkilde Brown then prolonged the lead late on along with her first aim for Metropolis within the 81st minute earlier than Jess Park added a fifth, which, preciously, boosted the group’s aim distinction to +42 with three matches remaining for
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