Reggae Woman Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw scored a league-leading seventeenth purpose as Manchester Metropolis bounced again from their FA Cup heartbreak final week with a dominant 4-1 win over Brighton right here Sunday.
Shaw was on track within the 69th minute with Metropolis’s third, constructing on first-half strikes from Lauren Hemp (twenty seventh) and Mary Fowler (fortieth), with Laura Coombs getting her crew’s fourth within the 78th.
The victory was Metropolis’s tenth straight within the Ladies’s Tremendous League and saved them on the prime on 40 factors, solely behind title-holders Chelsea on purpose distinction.
“A very good win for us and an excellent efficiency,” mentioned Metropolis supervisor Gareth Taylor. “I believed we constructed up rather well and the gamers executed the sport plan rather well.”
It’s nice to be on the prime
He added: “It’s only one recreation at a time. It’s nice to be on the prime, nevertheless it’s actually necessary.
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“We have been prime in the beginning of the season then rapidly inside a few video games we’re six behind. We’ve clawed that again and now we’re stage.
“It’s nice credit score to the crew, and now it’s nearly one down and 6 to go for us.”
Hemp opened the scoring at Broadfield Stadium within the southeast after accumulating Jess Park’s properly weighted go and ending from shut vary, and Fowler doubled the lead 5 minutes earlier than the break, sliding dwelling her end following a intelligent go from Hemp.
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Cruising on the break, Shaw put her aspect firmly in cost by nodding in Yui Hasegawa’s cross on the far put up earlier than Coombs added a fourth after being arrange by Fowler.
