Khadija Shaw header units up Man Metropolis Ladies’s win at Leicester

Jamaica Reggae Lady ahead Khadija “Bunny” Shaw notched the opener and Chloe Kelly scored her first English FA Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) aim of the season when Manchester Metropolis beat backside facet Leicester Metropolis 2-0 on Saturday at King Energy Stadium, to maneuver as much as third.

A looping header from Shaw, the WSL high scorer, gave the Jamaican her tenth league aim of the season and seventeenth in all competitions from as many matches – and put Gareth Taylor’s facet in entrance on 61 minutes.

Kelly’s excellent strike made certain of full factors 13 minutes later, the England ahead reducing in from the proper earlier than rifling a low, left-footed strike into the far nook.

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It took an impressed efficiency from Leicester goalkeeper Janina Leitzig to maintain the hosts degree for so long as they had been, however she had no probability with both aim.

The Bayern Munich loanee made a WSL document 15 saves within the match, together with six within the opening 20 minutes, and the guests created probabilities virtually at will early on.

Shaw, Kelly, Deyna Castellanos, and the spectacular Lauren Hemp had been all denied by Leitzig.

However six foot tall Spanish City-born Shaw, 26, who led the road at centre-forward, lastly broke the impasse when she guided Laura Coombs’ right-wing cross previous Leitzig.

-CMC