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Khadija Shaw says Manchester City privation to rise their level to beryllium "unstoppable" aft comfortably beating Tottenham astatine Etihad Stadium.
The Jamaica guardant scored a hat-trick - her 3rd against Tottenham - arsenic City cruised to a 4-0 win to widen their pb astatine the apical of the Women's Super League (WSL) table.
Shaw's archetypal extremity came aft conscionable 24 seconds erstwhile she pounced connected an mistake by Tottenham defender Clare Hunt, and her hat-trick was implicit successful the 67th minute.
"I conscionable pridefulness myself successful trying to enactment for the team, due to the fact that I cognize with the players I person astir maine I'm going to get opportunities," Shaw told Sky Sports.
"I'm rather a assured subordinate and I cognize what I tin bash connected the pitch, and Tottenham is nary different. I'm conscionable scoring against them - what tin I say?
"Once we spell astatine each crippled connected the beforehand ft from the archetypal whistle, we're truly good.
"We person to support going and spot wherever we tin rise the level adjacent better, truthful erstwhile we get to that level, we're unstoppable."
There was a hat-trick of assists for England planetary Lauren Hemp, who provided the crosses for Shaw's 2nd and 3rd goals - and the City forwards person built a beardown enslaved connected and disconnected the pitch.
"We've got a large relationship. It helps. It shows with the transportation we've got connected the pitch. It decidedly is similar that disconnected the pitch," said Hemp.
"She's a large laughter and I consciousness similar we've got specified a bully connection. If I enactment a atrocious shot in, she volition beryllium the archetypal to archer me.
"If she didn't decorativeness 1 of my crosses, I volition beryllium the archetypal to archer her, which is what you request successful this squad. We've got a communal respect.
"I ever cognize she's going to beryllium there. Sometimes I don't adjacent request to look up and I cognize she's going to beryllium there."
Hemp and Shaw apical the tables for astir assists and goals respectively successful the WSL this play and they bash not look similar slowing down.
City skipper Alex Greenwood says Shaw "scores erstwhile she wants" and that it is large to spot her combining with Hemp truthful well.
"When I basal astatine the backmost and I ticker them, it's evidently truly enjoyable," she added.
"They talk a lot, they enactment connected things, it's thing they speech astir rather a lot. They've got a large transportation and it showed tonight."
While it was an enjoyable evening for Manchester City, it was a nighttime to hide for Tottenham arsenic they were comfortably beaten.
There was a catalogue of idiosyncratic errors, and they were possibly fortunate not to person conceded adjacent much goals, peculiarly successful the archetypal half.
Spurs brag Robert Vilahamn says the aboriginal extremity by Shaw "killed momentum" and his broadside struggled to recover.
"Mentally it's truly hard - you tin spot the self-confidence of the players is mislaid for a portion earlier they travel backmost into the game," helium told Sky Sports.
"We conscionable request to recognize however bully [City] are successful the 2nd fractional and that we don't springiness distant immoderate much [goals].
"It's a substance of prime arsenic well. The mistakes is thing we request to make - we request to bash amended actions successful immoderate of these situations.
"We request to find ways to not concede these goals truthful easily. Self-confidence is simply a substance of performances, truthful it's a premix of things."
Defender Molly Bartrip said the extremity was the worst imaginable mode to commencement against City and they were past facing an uphill battle.
But she added it is connected the players to "question each other" astir wherefore they are making truthful galore errors, which she insisted is "not bully enough".
"Our individuality is going to beryllium playing retired from the backmost and it’s thing we privation to do. I don't deliberation we volition alteration our crippled successful that way," she added.
"Of course, there’s a clip and spot for it. If we're not doing it well, past we person to commencement going longer and agelong the game.
"But we are conceding goals mode excessively easy and it's thing we request to address.
"We person to commencement analysing it and questioning each different connected wherefore these goals person gone it. It's evidently not bully enough."
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