Four goals are just the beginning for Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw said Manchester City boss Gareth Taylor as his team defeated Brighton & Hove Albion 7-2 in the Barclays FA Women’s Super League.
Shaw opened the scoring inside three minutes, as City opened a three-goal lead after 16 minutes only for Brighton to fight back to make it 3-2 at half-time.
The Jamaican international then netted her seventh and eighth BFA WSL goals of the season to move the game out of reach from Brighton and cement City’s Champions League spot. Read more: City and Utd Women can prove controversial stadium comments wrong “We’ve got really good options at the top end of the pitch now; we have two really good strikers,” Taylor said. “Bunny [Shaw] is a really good finisher, she’s had a really good season, the levels for her to go up is huge. “It would’ve been an exciting game to watch, definitely!
At half-time looking at that and thinking two teams having a right go, for a neutral watching it would be really exciting.” Shaw found the net twice in the opening 12 minutes before Caroline Weir, who has been linked with a move to Spain, made it three as she pounced on a loose ball to rifle home from close range.
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