Man City Women beat Everton Women to maintain WSL lead as Chelsea Women thump West Ham Women - WSL round-up

Such are Shaw's standards, she was understandably disappointed to have generated a personal xG value of 1.58 from 12 efforts - a third of Man City's overall total - and fail to find the net. The hosts generated eight big chances in total and six were missed by Shaw.

Still, Andree Jeglertz's side were never in danger of conceding the outcome - after losing their first outing under Jeglertz to Chelsea, they have since won 11 league games on the bounce and will romp to the title if that momentum is maintained.

They face a testing few weeks with two meetings against Chelsea to come across two different competitions, akin to last season, where they met each other four times in quick succession. The Londoners were easily on top back then, but you suspect this latest edition will produce far more of an even heat.

City have scored at least 10 more goals than any other WSL challenger this season and only Chelsea have conceded fewer. The league's best attack vs the best defence could be the ultimate settler in this year's race.

The tone was set inside 46 seconds when Yu Endo turned home Ellie Carpenter's cross into her own net.