{"id":21777,"date":"2025-11-01T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T14:51:09","slug":"aoba-fujinos-first-half-strike-enough-to-earn-manchester-city-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21777\/","title":{"rendered":"Aoba Fujino\u2019s first-half strike enough to earn Manchester City victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aoba Fujino opened the scoring for City in the first half before Gracie Prior struck the crossbar in the second period.<\/p>\n<p>Following Chelsea\u2019s 2-0 win against the London City Lionesses, Andree Jeglertz\u2019s side remain a point off the top, while West Ham stay rooted to the foot of the table as their losing streak continued.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">That Fujino x Miedema link up \ud83d\ude2e\u200d\ud83d\udca8<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCityWomen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ManCityWomen<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BarclaysWSL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#BarclaysWSL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/euBbQ6k0qi\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/euBbQ6k0qi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Barclays Women&#8217;s Super League (@BarclaysWSL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BarclaysWSL\/status\/1984601656797859961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Hammers have lost all seven of their matches so far, and have now failed to score in four straight games.<\/p>\n<p>City dominated throughout at the Joie Stadium and took a deserved lead with 26 minutes gone. Shelina Zadorsky lost the ball to Vivianne Miedema who drove towards the visitors\u2019 area before playing in Fujino who struck first time to open the scoring.<\/p>\n<p>Rehanne Skinner\u2019s struggling side were on the back foot but came close to drawing level just 10 minutes later when Viviane Asseyi\u2019s shot clipped the top of the bar.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">70. Gracie hits the bar with a header! \ud83d\ude2b<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\ude75 1-0 \u2692\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manchester City Women (@ManCityWomen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ManCityWomen\/status\/1984614500549402651?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">November 1, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 70th minute, the woodwork denied Prior from doubling City\u2019s advantage. Prior rose highest to meet Yui Hasegawa\u2019s free-kick, but her header crashed back off the bar before Miedema inadvertently blocked Fujino\u2019s follow-up which looked destined for the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>City pressed for a second and Laura Blindkilde Brown shanked another good opportunity for the hosts with 10 minutes remaining before Khadija Shaw snatched at a corner and missed the target in the closing stages.<\/p>\n<p>But despite their failure to add a second, City saw out the win to secure all three points.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aoba Fujino opened the scoring for City in the first half before Gracie Prior struck the crossbar in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-21777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}