Reggae Lady Shaw seals one other win for Man Metropolis

Sizzling-shot Reggae Lady Khadija Shaw netted her ninth objective of the season as Manchester Metropolis took benefit of two personal objectives by Studying captain Emma Mukandi to win their English Girls’s Tremendous League (WSL) match 3-0 on the Choose Automotive Leasing Stadium on Sunday.

Metropolis lacked a innovative at instances however fixed strain from Lauren Hemp resulted in Mukandi’s two second-half errors earlier than 25-year-old ahead Shaw headed house Mary Fowler’s cross – her seventh objective in six league video games – on 76 minutes to wrap up the factors for the guests.

Spanish City-born Shaw, who struggled within the first half to search out the shape she has proven in latest weeks, had alternatives to open the scoring however took a heavy contact from a Hemp cross earlier than heading effectively over the bar on the stroke of half-time.

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Metropolis regarded sharper within the ultimate quarter-hour with the arrival of Chloe Kelly and Khadija Shaw lastly acquired her objective when Fowler swung in a lofty ball and she or he made no mistake this time, burying her header.

It was Metropolis’s fourth consecutive league victory and Gareth Taylor’s aspect are fourth within the desk with 12 factors, heading into the worldwide break.

Studying, in the meantime, are second from backside with three factors, having earned their first factors of the season final weekend with victory over Leicester, which ended a run of 14 consecutive WSL matches with out a win.

Two of Shaw’s UK-based Reggae Girlz teammates, Drew Spence and Shania Hayles, had been aspect lined by waterlogged pitches that led to the postponement of Tottenham Hotspurs’ WSL house recreation in opposition to Everton in addition to Championship outfit Bristol Metropolis’s recreation at Lewes.

Hayles has scored six objectives in seven video games for second-tier Bristol Metropolis whereas midfielder Spence bagged a brace for Tottenham of their 8-0 win at Brighton & Hove Albion final weekend.

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