Dramatic Late Finish!! - London City Lionesses v Manchester City Highlights - Barclays WSL 25-26

Eder Meister, the new coach for London City Lionesses, yet to concede that goalless draw with Liverpool followed by a 1-0 win at Sunderland in the FA Cup last week. They've got a home tie coming up against Spurs in round five so they could still have a really successful season but they've given the ball away here and the opportunity struck well by Aslani but it was always rising. Yes it was but I don't blame her at all for taking the effort on goal. It's really good hustling in the first instant. Lauren Hemp just running into a little bit of a coldy sack. Brilliant to see Fernandes pressing that high up and she has got the quality to hit the target from that area. Aslani just doesn't get over it. Here is Bunny Short, she's got support from Miedema and there could be an overload down the right here. Kasperai, Keralin, Hasegawa Keralin has got room for the cross and somehow Bunny Short fails to convert. Wow and it's not very often you see that from that sort of range. Bunny Short, we know they're going to create chances and we know Bunny Short more often than not is going to be the one that benefits from them but this is the way they're going to break down London City. Those little passes, bit of invention from Hasegawa and it's just a huck in hope across from Keralin but Lete was absolutely stranded. Sangare misjudges it but luckily for London City so does Bunny Short. Yamashita in towards Hasegawa and that's nicely done and here is Miedema and Keralin could be in here. Brilliantly done. Keralin with the goal for Manchester City and they could be heading nine points clear and that was a goal which says so much about how they played this season. There's a lovely bit of play from Hasegawa and Blinkelder-Brown and it's the first time we've seen the London City Lionesses' backline that high in the game so far and Keralin sniffs it out. Bunny Short had come to feet and that's what they do so well, this Manchester City team, is the interchange of the movements. Keralin started on the right but she's so dangerous when she comes across and plays centrally as well. You just know the form she's in. Four goals already this season, this one is only ending up in one place. And Aslani can come forward on the counter-attack here, looking for the pace of Goodwin and Goodwin could be in. Just has to check back, didn't really have the support or the angle to get the shot in. Real warning signs for Manchester City, that's a couple of times now. A simple through ball and a good run from Goodwin and they've got him behind Manchester City. Could she have taken the strike on earlier, tried to find that far corner, Izzy Goodwin. There's a really good recovery from Jade Rose in the first instance, just to delay and Hasegawa, always full of running to help a defence out. Here is Shaw with an opportunity, good save by Leyte and she clings on. Did well, there's plenty of power on that, plenty behind it from Bunny Short. Bit of skill again from Keralin to find a teammate, a little bit of luck from Bunny Short. Pattinson, Manchester City pressing all over the field and Pattinson under pressure there from Keralin and it's Manchester City who get the free kick, taken quickly by Keralin and here is Miedema, hemmed to the left. Shaw waiting at the far post as she and Keralin completely unmarked and Leyte's done well initially but here is Keralin and there is Aslani. Well as a neutral I think that would have been maybe a little bit of a controversial moment had they scored from that quick free kick. I wasn't sure there was much at all in the challenge between Pattinson and Keralin. It's cut out this time and quickly forward towards Goodwin and this is the opportunity for London City and Goodwin are denied by a great save and Yamashita earning the luck as it came back off the upright. Oh hugely lucky, she should go out and buy a lottery ticket Yamashita I think because what a wonderful break from London City. They were patient and when Perez wins it back you're thinking she's not got an awful lot on but what a run again from Goodwin. They're so high Manchester City when they play this way. Jade Rose and Kanaka never getting back when she's at full speed Izzy Goodwin and she does everything right. She works so hard to get on the end of it, she opens up her body. It is a brilliant touch though from Yamashita and she's alert to the rebound as well. One back by Blinkelder, short, now Hemp goes for the curler and it's gathered well by Leyte. She's not the tallest Leyte and she wasn't far enough off the line for it to lob her but it was a nice bit of invention from Hemp. All eyes were on the overlap from Kasperi but she chose to take it on her left. Sangare, she goes down inside the area, no real appeals. Rodart and the crossing is dangerous and Goodwin hits the bar. It's still loose for Kennedy and then Sangare on the turn and Manchester City escape. Fernandes returns it and it's claimed by Yamashita and for the second time in the first half London City denied by the woodwork. Wow they need more of this, all outfield players involved in this move here. Sangare does well actually immediately up onto her feet. I thought they could have appealed more for that, it was a clumsy bit of physicality from behind. It's a good tease in delivery and she leaps higher than anybody under plenty of pressure from Kanak and I think it's Sangare on the swivel just can't quite connect with the follow-up but plenty of positive signs for London City to build upon if they can get in at half time. Hasegawa, Hemp again and then Kasperi is bowled over by Pattinson and it will be a free kick. That was a clumsy one on Kasperi, it's not just the original contact, I think it's the follow-through she accidentally lands on her as well, it's a painful one. Greenwood over the free kick here and it's deep towards Hemp, completely unmarked and it's flicked on towards Kasperi and eventually scrambled behind. It's defended well, it was a very clever set piece and Kasperi was nearly on the end of it. Yeah you're dead right Nigel, it's purposeful isn't it and look at this for defensive action from Corrales. Here is Pattinson, she's worked the one-two and now Goodwin just curving her run to stay on side and Aslani was looking to break to the byline and in the end she may have also had a painful blow against the advertising hoardings. I thought Aslani looked like she was going to win this race with Becker-Knack, I'm not sure she makes too much contact there, the German centre-back. That's a good ball from Godfrey and here is Aslani. Goodwin ahead of her, now Corrales needs a good cross, Aslani, oh high and wide, what an opportunity. Oh it's wonderful football, it really is and they deserve to be back into this game from how they've come out in this second half. It breaks for Aslani and she makes the right decision. I love this bit of invention from Corrales, you're expecting the cross, she goes to the little reverse cutback to her captain Aslani and there's nobody else you'd want taking on this opportunity. It does just take a little bobble. Pattinson, now Rodart and the cross is driven and Sangare was challenging and she nearly got there but Bunny Shaw did just enough. Oh Bunny Shaw loves being in the box but she doesn't want to be in that box, deep into her own penalty area having to deal with this one. Look at it, she's the furthest player back for Manchester City which tells you everything you need to know Hasegawa in towards Shaw, she can turn onto the left foot but effort is rather slashed wide in the end. Yeah and you know what, just watching Bunny Shaw, she'd been demanding the ball got looped into her for about 15 phases before this eventually gets fed to her feet. It's good movement she does well to carve out the space for the shot but it's a poor effort in the end by her standards. Appeals for handball against Aslani but nothing given. Now Godfrey, Goodwin in the centre but Godfrey though goes for goal and it's brilliant and the first goal in the women's Super League under Ede Meister is an absolute cracker from Freya Godfrey. Brilliant finish, 20 years of age up against what many people have said are the imminent champions in Manchester City and you can understand when you watch them here why it's a club full of ambition, full of excitement. When Freya Godfrey picks it up you're just wondering who is she going to pick out when she's in this position. There's claims for handball but Lisa Benn the referee is totally behind Aslani so she does the right thing, she didn't see it so she can't call it. She slows herself down, little bit of trickery and Yamashita no chance. And here is Medabar now, Shaw with the opportunity and it's over the top. I think Medabar is instrumental isn't she, the way she brings it down on the pivot. I'm not sure what Sangare is doing and she's trying to do a Freya Godfrey here and just backing her power to find the inside of that net of Lete's. London City make heavy weather of dealing with that and a corner kick's been conceded by Alain Lete. Can City snatch the victory here? Goffey's delivery, it's guided away by Kennedy and that's a good ball in towards hemp and is it scrambled over the line it's clear but there's Shaw and Buddy Shaw has done it and that is what champions do. A look at the reaction, I think they thought this would be a pretty straightforward three points for them today. They watched their rivals Chelsea drop further away from them yesterday but it's the substitute with a really teasing delivery as it comes to Hasegawa, you know she's going to do something cute. It's a lovely ball into hemp's feet and as it comes out to Shaw she's not going to make a mistake from there but it's the first bit of quality we've seen at all in the second half of Manchester City. Yamashita clears downfield and that's it. Bonnie Shaw with the winning goal for Manchester City and is this the weekend when Chelsea's generational grip on the women's Super League has finally been loosened. Manchester City on nine points clear. It is finished, London City Lionesses 1, Manchester City 2. I really think that we deserve something more but we need to understand that a way to play and that experience needs to become a game changer situation to understand and recognize ourselves in that kind of mentality. There is something in this group that they never even though that it's not a beautiful game we still find ways to win, keep on going, finding different spaces all the time so I'm very happy of course and also proud of how this winning mentality really is in this group.