Manchester City 1-1 Aston Villa: Kirsty Hanson earns Villa a deserved point

Kirsty Hanson has scored 2 goals and contributed 2 assists successful her past 3 WSL matches

Kirsty Hanson's close-range onslaught earned Aston Villa a deserved gully against Manchester City.

But Hanson, connected indebtedness from Manchester United, levelled 2 minutes aboriginal from Rachel Daly's searching cross.

Villa came closest to uncovering a victor successful the 2nd fractional but Hanson deed the station and Kenza Dali's long-range effort was good saved by Ellie Roebuck.

The constituent moves Aston Villa supra Everton into 5th place, having played a crippled more.

Manchester City enactment 4th but miss the accidental to determination level connected points with Arsenal and Manchester United successful the Champions League qualification places.

Villa good worthy of a point

This hard-earned gully completes a good tally for Aston Villa, who bushed Tottenham past weekend and saw brag Carla Ward sign a caller declaration midweek.

They demonstrated admirable quality to retrieve from a mediocre commencement and could person easy won the crippled successful the 2nd half.

For City, the gully extends their unbeaten tally to 13 games successful each competitions. But Gareth Taylor's broadside person small borderline for mistake arsenic they effort to pursuit down the apical three, and the 2 dropped points could beryllium costly.

They started the crippled connected the beforehand foot, with Shaw having 3 shots from wrong the country blocked successful speedy succession by Villa defender Danielle Turner earlier Chole Kelly rocketed a changeable into the broadside netting from a choky angle.

As good arsenic being a menace successful the box, Shaw's hold-up play was troubling the Villa backline and led to the opening extremity connected 28 minutes.

The 25-year-old dropped heavy earlier rolling her marker and sliding the shot done the bosom of the Villa defence for Castellanos, who calmly side-footed location her archetypal WSL goal.

Villa had offered small arsenic an attacking menace astatine that signifier but managed to level conscionable 2 minutes aboriginal erstwhile Daly's transverse fell for Hanson - her half-volley from adjacent scope had excessively overmuch powerfulness for Roebuck, who got 2 hands connected the shot but could not forestall it from looping into the net.

Villa started the 2nd fractional the amended squad and came wrong inches of taking the pb erstwhile Hanson deed the station with a curling changeable from wrong the area.

Dali, who was superb successful cardinal midfield, past went adjacent with a drawback half-volley from region that was good pushed distant by Roebuck.

City thought they had snatched a precocious victor but Anna Leat did good to artifact Shaw's effort from adjacent scope successful stoppage time.