MAN­CHES­TER – De­spite miss­ing a large chunk of the sea­son due to in­jury, Ja­maican and Man­ches­ter City for­ward Khadi­ja ‘Bun­ny’ Shaw has fin­ished tied for the most goals in the Women’s Su­per League (WSL) in Eng­land.

In what was a large­ly dis­ap­point­ing sea­son for City, where they failed to win a ti­tle and fin­ished fourth in the WSL, fail­ing to qual­i­fy for the Cham­pi­ons League, Shaw won the Gold­en Boot af­ter end­ing the sea­son with 12 goals af­ter ap­pear­ing in 14 match­es, the same as Ar­se­nal’s Alessia Rus­so, who played in 21 match­es.

It marked the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive year that the 28-year-old Shaw emerged as the top goal scor­er in the WSL, fol­low­ing her sen­sa­tion­al per­for­mance last year where she scored 21 goals in 18 match­es.

Shaw, City’s all-time lead­ing goal scor­er, set a new WSL record for most hat-tricks scored of all-time when she plun­dered a tre­ble in a 4-0 win over Spurs at the Eti­had Sta­di­um.

It rep­re­sent­ed her sixth in to­tal in the di­vi­sion which ex­tend­ed her stel­lar record against the north Lon­don­ers.

She then hit five more in the top-flight be­fore pick­ing up an in­jury in the Sub­way League Cup fi­nal meet­ing with Chelsea which end­ed her sea­son ear­ly.

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