LONDON, CMC – Jamaica Ladies’s striker Khadija “Bunny” Shaw mentioned she was wanting ahead to the remaining matches within the Ladies’s Tremendous League after successful the Participant-of-the-Month award for December.
It was the primary time Shaw, who celebrates her twenty sixth birthday on January 31, had claimed the prize this season and got here after being named the Manchester Metropolis Ladies’s Participant-of-the-Month for a similar interval.
“I’m glad to win the award for the primary time this yr,” she mentioned in an article on Man Metropolis’s web site. “December was a wonderful month for our staff, and I’m grateful to everybody who voted.
“We’re entering into an important a part of the season now, so successful each video games in December has given us an enormous increase. Hopefully, we are able to proceed our sturdy kind till the tip of the season to make our followers glad.”
Shaw confronted powerful competitors from Man Metropolis team-mate Lauren Hemp, Taylor Hinds of Liverpool, Lena Petermann of Leicester Metropolis, Ella Toone of Manchester United, and Barbora Votikova of Tottenham Hotspur.
She netted a hat-trick in a 4-1 win in opposition to Everton on the finish of final yr, and she or he maintained her place because the League’s main scorer to this point this time period with 9 objectives in as many matches.
Her treble adopted a powerful show in a 2-1 win in opposition to Aston Villa, the place the Man Metropolis Ladies got here from a objective down to gather three factors on the Joie Stadium.
Shaw reserved her finest for the match in opposition to the Toffees, as Everton is understood, when she extinguished the frustration of lacking an early penalty to interrupt the impasse with a elegant chip previous goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan.
She then doubled her and Metropolis’s tally at Walton Corridor Park with a pushed shot into the underside nook earlier than Jill Roord prolonged the guests’ lead additional.
Following the interval, Shaw collected the match ball when heading house within the sixty fifth minute – which additionally signaled an ideal hat-trick.
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