Manchester City opened up an 11-point gap at the top of the Women’s Super League in superb style as they claimed a rampant 6-0 win over bottom club Leicester City.
The top vs bottom clash was unlikely to bring up any surprise and that proved to be the case, with City four goals up at the break. But the league leaders were given a scare as Alisha Lehmann rattled the post early on for the visitors.
That chance only woke City up though as they worked out their main strength in Lauren Hemp’s direc running, which brought two assists and six chances created. She set up the first for Bunny Shaw, who headed in her cross at the near post, before a double from Vivianne Miedema.
The Dutch forward drilled home a first from the edge of the box after Ashleigh Neville failed to clear her lines, before heading home another Hemp cross for 3-0. Then City made it four inside 38 minutes as Kerolin set up Yu Hasegawa for a simple fourth.
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Man City are flying as they make it 4-0 before half-time against Leicester.
Leicester were hoping the floodgates had shut but they conceded a fifth three minutes after the break. Kerolin smashed a beauty into the top corner from distance, with the Brazilian claiming goal of the evening.
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Manchester City’s dominance continues as Kerolin smashes the ball into the top corner to make it five for the WSL leaders against Leicester.
City then made changes – and even they started scoring. Leicester played themselves into trouble as Chantelle Swaby got caught in possession in the box, allowing Aoba Fujino to round the goalkeeper before smashing home.
Incredibly, it could have been much worse for Leicester – as Shaw, Hemp and Leila Ouahabi all missed close-range sitters – before Noemie Mouchon missed an even bigger one when she pounced on a City mistake and fired over with the goal gaping.
It rounded off an awful Friday 13th for Leicester – as City count down the days towards a WSL title.
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