It proved to be a special night at the Etihad Stadium in the Barclays Women’s Super League as the Blues recorded our 250th professional win.
Khadija ‘Bunny’ Shaw lit the blue touch paper after just 21 seconds when relentlessly hunting down possession, retrieving the ball and coolly slotting home.
She then doubled our lead less than 15 minutes when the Jamaican met a teasing Lauren Hemp cross to head into the net from close range.
Gareth Taylor‘s side then kept our foot on the gas after the interval and extended our a strong advantage through Jill Roord who venomously fired past Rebecca Spencer after collecting Hemp’s pass.
Then England international grabbed her third assist of the evening soon when playing an inch-perfect pass across the face of goal - allowing Bunny to grab her history making hat-trick.
It meant the clinical striker became the first player to score three trebles against the same WSL opponent and it also moved her to the top of the all-time hat-trick list in the competition’s history with six.
Watch the extended highlights from the success in the video player above!
