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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Emillia Hawkins

Manchester City’s WSL title charge stalls abruptly after shock against Brighton

Madison Haley celebrates after scoring her second for Brighton against Manchester City
Madison Haley celebrates after scoring her second for Brighton against Manchester City. Photograph: Cat Goryn/Action Images/Reuters

Kiko Seike and Madison Haley put Manchester City’s title celebrations on hold as Brighton upset the Women’s Super League leaders. Three points at the Broadfield Stadium would have enabled City to take the title as early as Wednesday, if Arsenal were to lose against Leicester that day. But the race could now go down to the final day, which is 16 May.

Brighton could have found themselves at least three goals down within 10 minutes after gifting their opponents several chances – the first of which came after 12 seconds when a terrible backpass from Moeka Minami was intercepted by Khadija Shaw. The striker played a short pass across to Aoba Fujino, who fired her attempt wide.

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