Matildas defender Clare Hunt had an evening to neglect on the Metropolis of Manchester Stadium as Tottenham Hotspur have been thrashed 4-0 by Manchester Metropolis within the Ladies’s Tremendous League.
Khadija Shaw pounced on an error by Hunt inside the primary minute to attain the primary objective of a hat-trick as Metropolis moved a provisional 4 factors clear on the prime of the ladder.
Metropolis have 19 factors from seven video games forward of second-placed Chelsea, who’re on 15 factors however with two matches in hand earlier than they go to sixth-placed Liverpool on Sunday.
It took simply 23 seconds after kick-off for Shaw to make her mark.
“We actually loved that one,” Shaw advised Sky Sports activities.
“We spoke as a staff about wanting to return out right here and be on the entrance foot. We stated we hadn’t actually scored early in a sport, so we will go and press, and it labored out.”
The Jamaican continued to trigger nightmares for Hunt, getting her second objective within the fifteenth when she nodded house Lauren Hemp’s pinpoint cross, the primary of three assists for Hemp.
Jill Roord scored for the third successive WSL sport to offer Metropolis a three-goal lead within the 66th minute with a blistering left-foot shot earlier than Shaw accomplished her hat-trick a minute later, tapping in Hemp’s low cross from the far publish.
“With the gamers I’ve round me, I do know I’ll get crosses, and simply making the fitting motion within the field they will discover me,” Shaw stated.
“It is one thing I delight myself in, particularly being within the field and the ball being out vast, I do know I’ve to be prepared for the crosses.”
Shaw, who has three trebles in opposition to Spurs, stretched her lead atop this season’s WSL scoring charts as she moved onto seven targets, and her six profession hat-tricks additionally lead the WSL.
“I really feel like I at all times know the place Bunny [Shaw] goes to be, I do know the place she’s going to run, particularly for that third objective, I simply thought I might put it into area and clearly Bunny was there to complete it,” Hemp stated.
Hemp had a few terrific possibilities herself, forcing goalkeeper Rebecca Spencer to make a diving save from one shot, after which firing one other quickly after that ricocheted off each posts and out. Hemp buried her head in her fingers in disbelief.
“I used to be completely devastated,” the England ahead stated.
The defeat leaves Spurs in seventh spot on seven factors.
There was higher information for Caitlin Foord, who discovered the again of the online as Arsenal climbed to fourth with a 5-0 rout of visiting Brighton and Hove Albion.
Beth Mead, Foord, Frida Maanum, Lina Hurtig and Alessia Russo, with a penalty, secured Arsenal’s third win.
The Seagulls stay third on 13 factors, one level forward of the Gunners.
Brighton had solely conceded 4 targets of their first six video games this season earlier than Friday’s nightmare on the Emirates.
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