The Manchester City head coach, Andr\u00e9e Jeglertz, heaped praise on his side\u2019s prolific striker Khadija Shaw for not allowing speculation about her future to hinder her performances, after she continued her fine \u00adgoalscoring form with the opening goal at Wembley to help her side complete the Double by lifting the Women\u2019s FA Cup.<\/p>\n
The Jamaica striker, who signed a four-year contract on Monday<\/a> after previously being set to leave City this summer, has scored relentlessly in recent weeks, including the winning goal in their Cup quarter-final in April as well as the winner in their semi-final at Chelsea<\/a> in May, before nodding in from an Alex Greenwood cross for the first goal in Sunday\u2019s 4-0 victory over Brighton.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very impressed how she handled that,\u201d Jeglertz said, when asked about Shaw\u2019s continued form amid the recent flurry of stories about her contract situation, with the 29-year-old having been heavily linked with Chelsea since March. \u201cShe has never shown any kind of mood that has affected her performance.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course, she is a person, like everybody else, so of course, she will know about all the writing, she knows about that, but at the same time she has been so professional all the time, always performed and always been a positive person. So, no matter what, I haven\u2019t seen or noticed any kind of challenges for her.\u201d<\/p>\n Shaw performed a dramatic U-turn to stay at City after multiple sources had indicated in early May that she had decided to leave. Speaking to the Guardian after Sunday\u2019s victory, the City defender Rebecca Knaak applauded Shaw, adding: \u201cMassive respect to Bunny. It\u2019s not been easy for her.<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s been a lot of noise in the background. It\u2019s quite hard as a player to still focus then, and that\u2019s exactly what she did. She\u2019s always turned up in all the games for us. She\u2019s so important for us and I\u2019m just incredibly happy that she\u2019s staying, and the way she delivered, it\u2019s exactly why we need her.\u201d<\/p>\n A striker of Shaw\u2019s clinical nature is exactly what Brighton appeared to be missing, in a game where the Sussex side had a greater share of the possession and 12 efforts at goal to City\u2019s 14, but eventually ended up on the wrong end of a heavy scoreline.<\/p>\n Asked what his team will need to progress to the next level, the Brighton head coach Dario Vidosic, who was proud of his side\u2019s \u201cbravery\u201d on the ball, said: \u201cI\u2019ll review the whole season and hopefully, we\u2019ll see how we go in the summer, in terms of players that could potentially be coming to the club. We want to keep taking these steps [forward].<\/p>\n \u201cWe can gain a lot of confidence now, not just from today, but also from the previous weeks, with what we\u2019ve been able to do against some really, really good teams, so it fills us with a lot of confidence.<\/p>\n \u201cThis will hurt for a little while, but hopefully we can use that motivation and that fire for next season, starting in pre-season.\u201d<\/p>\n Brighton were in their first Wembley final and finished seventh in the Women\u2019s Super League.<\/p>\n After a strong campaign where they knocked Arsenal out of the Cup, Brighton will now also want to keep hold of their top players, and Vidosic added: \u201cTo build, you need to have that core together, so they can keep working, keep learning and keep growing together.<\/p>\n \u201cI think it is important that we keep as many as we can together. And then we just start to bring in some other areas that we\u2019ll look to strengthen in.<\/p>\n \u201cThe club has started [this \u00adsummer\u2019s recruitment], so there are a couple [of signings] that will be hopefully be announced relatively soon. I\u2019m sure it\u2019ll be a fairly busy summer again.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Manchester City head coach, Andr\u00e9e Jeglertz, heaped praise on his side\u2019s prolific striker Khadija Shaw for not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":["post-470083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}