WSL chart toppers and Hemp’s magic: City 6-0 Leicester | OneFootball

Our ruthless 6-0 Barclays Women’s Super League win over Leicester City in numbers.

The Blues moved 11 points clear at the top of the WSL for at least 48 hours and maintained our 100% home record in the process.

A Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw header and Yui Hasegawa strike either side of a brace from Vivianne Miedema saw City go in four goals to the good at the break, with Kerolin and Aoba Fujino completing the scoring in the second half.

It was an attacking display which Head Coach Andrée Jeglertz described as ‘marvellous’, with several standout numbers worth shouting about below…

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City boast the best attacking record in the WSL this season, and we also now occupy first, second and third in the race for the Golden Boot.

Shaw sits out in front on 15 from 16 appearances, with Miedema (eight) and Kerolin (seven) completing the top three.

The trio have a combined 43 goal contributions in the WSL already this season, with six matches still the be played.

Aston Villa’s Kirsty Hanson also has seven goals to her name, but Kerolin’s four assists mean she sits above the Scot.

Wing wizard

In a performance of superlatives from City, Hemp’s individual display stood out from the crowd.

The winger was at her balletic best at the Joie Stadium, particularly in the first half when grabbing two assists and creating six chances from open play. That’s a number bettered only by Fran Kirby (vs. Everton in September 2021) in the WSL annals.

Hemp went one better by the final whistle, though, becoming the first player in WSL history to create more than ten chances from open play in a single game.

Had Shaw’s stoppage time strike not been ruled out for offside, she’d have even had a third assist to add to her tally.

Shaw always scores

It’s no secret that our number nine is hurtling towards a record third WSL Golden Boot, but the Jamaican hit another impressive milestone against the Foxes.

When opening the scoring with a diving header from Hemp’s cross, Shaw became only the second player in WSL history to score 15+ goals in three different seasons.

She grabbed 20 in 2022/23 and 21 in 2023/24, the latter seeing her become City’s first-ever Golden Boot winner in the process.

The only other player to score 15 or more goals in a WSL season on three occasions? None other than Shaw’s team-mate, Vivianne Miedema!

Relentless

Despite Leicester twice striking the woodwork and battling hard at the Joie, City had virtually put the game to bed by half-time after a grabbing four goals in a devastating 16-minute spell.

Indeed, there were just two minutes and 18 seconds between Miedema converting our third and Hasegawa making it four as half-time approached.

And then after the restart, it took Kerolin just 2 minutes and 12 seconds to make it five with a vicious effort from distance.

Jeglertz has praised the team’s desire to constantly improve on multiple occasions, with that goalscoring spree a case in point of that impressive mentality.