{"id":348742,"date":"2025-12-14T19:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348742\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T19:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T19:27:08","slug":"khadija-bunny-shaw-how-nightmare-manchester-city-striker-reached-100-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/348742\/","title":{"rendered":"Khadija Bunny Shaw: How ‘nightmare’ Manchester City striker reached 100 goals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shaw’s achievement is nothing short of remarkable given she reached the landmark in just 120 games in all competitions.<\/p>\n

In her past four WSL matches, she has picked up eight goals and two assists, and has a 1.11 goals-per-game rate this season in the league. <\/p>\n

The 28-year-old leads the WSL top-scorers chart by seven goals, with her nearest competitors on five goals each, and Shaw has netted as many as Liverpool have in total this season.<\/p>\n

“Scoring goals for fun, best centre-forward in the land,” are the words that make up City fans’ song about her, often chanted in adoration of their number nine.<\/p>\n

They stayed behind at Joie Stadium on Sunday to show their appreciation, giving her a standing ovation as the club congratulated her formally at full-time.<\/p>\n

A video was played on the big screens – a compilation of messages from sporting stars including legendary Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt – who also shared a message on X later on Sunday, external<\/a> – ex-England striker Ian Wright and former Manchester City favourites Steph Houghton and Jill Scott.<\/p>\n

“Manchester is my home,” Shaw said in the microphone, prompting a huge roar from fans and manager Andree Jeglertz confirmed afterwards the club are in discussions with her over a potential new deal with her current contract ending in July 2026.<\/p>\n

“It’s amazing. I’m so happy for her of course, but also for this club, to have her in this environment and in our team. She is affecting things,” added Jeglertz. <\/p>\n

“She has a big role but is also a great team-mate. She knows it’s not just about her scoring goals. The assists have to come from somebody. <\/p>\n

“She is working every day to become a little bit better and that is the most important thing in this job – that she is never satisfied.<\/p>\n

“Watching her a few years ago, there were a lot of goals from crosses and with headers but I think she showed today she can score in different ways. That’s a part she has developed and is still doing so.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaw’s achievement is nothing short of remarkable given she reached the landmark in just 120 games in all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-348742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}