Australian internationals Alanna Kennedy and Mary Fowler have book-ended a see-saw European win for Manchester Metropolis with splendid objectives within the Girls’s Champions League tie at Austrian membership St Polten.
Central defender Kennedy scored her maiden objective for the English Girls’s Tremendous League leaders in startling trend, firing a thunderous, unstoppable 25-metre strike after simply 5 minutes of the group D tie in Vienna.
However Metropolis, who had overwhelmed champions Barcelona of their opening fixture and had anticipated St Polten to be a lot simpler to dispatch, had been in for a impolite shock at Franz Horr Stadium as Melanie Brunnthaler levelled and Kamila Dubcova then put the hosts forward both aspect of half-time.
Japan worldwide Aoba Fujino levelled, like Kennedy, together with her first objective for the membership, it was in-form 21-year-old Fowler who secured the three factors within the eightieth minute when she soared highest in a crowded goal-mouth to go dwelling Lauren Hemp’s nook.
Her objective topped an excellent efficiency which earned Fowler the participant of the match award, whereas the late objective ensured Metropolis gained their sixth sport on the trot in a superb begin to the season.
The win got here although supervisor Gareth Taylor made six adjustments to Metropolis’s line-up following Sunday’s 2-1 win at Liverpool to assist handle the gamers’ workload, with star striker Khadija Shaw getting a relaxation till approaching after half-time.
It allowed Fowler to steer the road, which she did with actual high quality, whereas practically scoring a long-range second simply after half-time, solely to be thwarted by a high quality save from Carina Schluter, who tipped the shot over the bar.
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