Champions Manchester City signed off their league campaign in style by beating West Ham 4-1, including two goals from Bunny Shaw to take her incredible tally to 21 for the season.
Recently crowned Women’s Footballer of the Year, Shaw celebrated both strikes with a wry smile in front of the travelling Man City fans, with her future at the club still unresolved – and rumours swirling of a possible switch to Chelsea.
The speculation did nothing to quell her performance, scoring City’s second after Jade Rose had put the visitors ahead from a corner. Andree Jeglertz’s side have found the net 14 times from corners this term, more than double the total of any other team.
But Shaw was keen to show her repertoire from open play, too, enjoying a usually abundant amount of touches in the opposition box and creating more chances (3) than any player on the park. She was found by Aoba Fujino to thump home her first of the afternoon before latching onto a through ball from Laura Coombs to plant a second past Kinga Szemik.
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Khadija Shaw gets her second of the afternoon to seal her brace against West Ham.
The afternoon would not have been complete without a sprinkling of sentimentality, with Coombs then looping a fine effort over Szemik on her final WSL appearance. The midfielder is calling time on her seven-year Man City career, having completed nearly two decades in the game and will go down as a WSL great.
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Laura Coombs makes it four for Manchester City against West Ham in her final appearance for the club.
West Ham certainly played their part, too, scoring a well-worked goal via a combination of Ffion Morgan and Seraina Piubel. Young Swiss forward Leila Wandeler also drew an excellent save from Eartha Cumings late on, with the goalkeeper proving how stacked City’s reserve of talent really is. Cumings had not featured in the WSL for four years. She made three top saves in total and spoke afterwards of how ‘special’ it is to be a part of such a relentlessly gifted group.
More to follow.
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