Manchester City W 3–2 Brighton W
- Season
- Women's Super League
- 2026 · Regular Season - 6
Referee
Leigh Doughty
Women's Super League: Manchester City W beat Brighton W 3–2. Goals: Khadija Shaw 5', Khadija Shaw 16', Niamh Charles 17', O. Garcia 31', C. Hayes 37'.
Top rated
The provider's match ratings, out of 10.
K. Shaw9.1
L. Hemp7.9- NCNiamh Charles7.5
- OGO. Garcia7.1
C. Hayes7.0
C. Nnadozie7.0
How the score moved
The running score, step by step, with every score marked.
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
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| When | Manchester City W | Brighton W |
|---|---|---|
| 5′ · Khadija Shaw | 1 | 0 |
| 16′ · Khadija Shaw | 2 | 0 |
| 17′ · Niamh Charles | 3 | 0 |
| 31′ · O. Garcia | 3 | 1 |
| 37′ · C. Hayes | 3 | 2 |
| 90′ | 3 | 2 |
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
Manchester City WGoals3xG2.37
- xG per shot
- 0.14
- Goals minus xG
- +0.63
Brighton WGoals2xG1.03
- xG per shot
- 0.11
- Goals minus xG
- +0.97
How the chances split
Manchester City W win 67%Draw 18%Brighton W win 15%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
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| Manchester City W | Brighton W | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 3 | 2 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 2.37 | 1.03 |
| xG per shot | 0.139 | 0.114 |
| Goals minus xG | +0.63 | +0.97 |
| Manchester City W win | 67% | |
| Draw | 18% | |
| Brighton W win | 15% |
Goals & cards
- Khadija ShawAssist: Lauren Hemp5′
- Khadija ShawAssist: Lauren Hemp16′
- Niamh Charles17′
- 31′O. Garcia
- 37′C. HayesAssist: Francesca Kirby
- 90+4′Manuela VanegasDissent
Key stats
- 59%Ball Possession41%
- 2.37Expected goals1.03
- 17Total Shots9
- 8Shots on goal3
- 8Corner Kicks1
Half by half
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester City W | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Brighton W | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Facts
From each side's recent results and their meetings, before this match.
- Manchester City W: 5 won, 0 drawn, 0 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Manchester City W have won their last 5 matches.
- Manchester City W have scored in each of their last 5 matches.
- Manchester City W scored 16 and conceded 6 in their last 5 matches.
- Brighton W: 1 won, 2 drawn, 2 lost in their last 5 matches.
- Brighton W scored 8 and conceded 7 in their last 5 matches.
Recent form
Standings
Super League Women
| POS | Team | GP | W | D | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester City W | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 |
| 2 |  Chelsea W | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 23 |
| 3 |  London City Lionesses W | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 |  Tottenham Hotspur W | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 |  Manchester United W | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | Brighton W | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 |  Everton W | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 |  Arsenal W | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
Timeline
- Khadija ShawAssist: Lauren Hemp5′
- Khadija ShawAssist: Lauren Hemp16′
- Niamh Charles17′
- 31′O. Garcia
- 37′C. HayesAssist: Francesca Kirby
- Off: Grace ClintonOn: Mary Fowler60′
- Off: Niamh CharlesOn: Carlotta Wamser60′
- 66′Off: Olaug tvedtenOn: Emilie Marie·Joramo
- 76′Off: Marit·AueeOn: Maelys Mpomé
- 76′Off: Jelena CankovicOn: Marisa·Olislagers
- 88′Off: Gabrielle GeorgeOn: Emily murphy
- 90+4′Manuela VanegasDissent
Chances and finishing
Expected goals (xG) weigh every shot by how often a chance like it is scored. Set against the goals, they show who made the better chances and who took them.
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
Manchester City WGoals3xG2.37
- xG per shot
- 0.14
- Goals minus xG
- +0.63
Brighton WGoals2xG1.03
- xG per shot
- 0.11
- Goals minus xG
- +0.97
How the chances split
Manchester City W win 67%Draw 18%Brighton W win 15%
Each side's xG treated as the average of a Poisson distribution of goals: how often this match ends each way if its chances were played out again and again.
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| Manchester City W | Brighton W | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 3 | 2 |
| Expected goals (xG) | 2.37 | 1.03 |
| xG per shot | 0.139 | 0.114 |
| Goals minus xG | +0.63 | +0.97 |
| Manchester City W win | 67% | |
| Draw | 18% | |
| Brighton W win | 15% |
Every shot, and how it ended
Goals, shots the keeper saved, shots off target and shots blocked before they reached goal — then where they were taken from.
- Goals
- Saved
- Off target
- Blocked
Manchester City W17 shots3563
Brighton W9 shots216
- 116Inside the box
- 63Outside the box
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| Manchester City W | Brighton W | |
|---|---|---|
| Goals | 3 | 2 |
| Saved | 5 | 1 |
| Off target | 6 | 6 |
| Blocked | 3 | 0 |
| Inside the box | 11 | 6 |
| Outside the box | 6 | 3 |
The ball: possession and passing
Who had it, how often they moved it, and how many of those passes found a teammate.
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
59%Possession41%
89%526 of 589 passes83%354 of 428 passes
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| Manchester City W | Brighton W | |
|---|---|---|
| Possession | 59% | 41% |
| Passes | 589 | 428 |
| Completed | 526 | 354 |
| Pass accuracy | 89% | 83% |
Discipline
Fouls, cards and offsides, and when each card was shown.
- 87Fouls
- 01Yellow cards
- 00Red cards
- 30Offsides
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| Manchester City W | Brighton W | |
|---|---|---|
| Fouls | 8 | 7 |
| Yellow cards | 0 | 1 |
| Red cards | 0 | 0 |
| Offsides | 3 | 0 |
Every player's rating
The provider's match ratings out of ten, one dot per player who featured. Point at a dot for the name.
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
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| Player | Team | Rating | Min |
|---|---|---|---|
| K. Shaw | Manchester City W | 9.1 | 90 |
| L. Hemp | Manchester City W | 7.9 | 90 |
| Niamh Charles | Manchester City W | 7.5 | 60 |
| Yui Hasegawa | Manchester City W | 7.2 | 90 |
| O. Garcia | Brighton W | 7.1 | 90 |
| C. Hayes | Brighton W | 7.0 | 90 |
| C. Nnadozie | Brighton W | 7.0 | 90 |
| F. Kirby | Brighton W | 6.9 | 90 |
| M. Fowler | Manchester City W | 6.7 | 30 |
| Grace Clinton | Manchester City W | 6.6 | 60 |
| Laura Blindkilde Brown | Manchester City W | 6.6 | 90 |
| A. Greenwood | Manchester City W | 6.5 | 90 |
| Jade Rose | Manchester City W | 6.5 | 90 |
| O. Tvedten | Brighton W | 6.5 | 66 |
| A. Yamashita | Manchester City W | 6.4 | 90 |
| A. Fujino | Manchester City W | 6.4 | 90 |
| Emily murphy | Brighton W | 6.4 | 2 |
| M. Symonds | Brighton W | 6.3 | 90 |
| K. Casparij | Manchester City W | 6.3 | 90 |
| M. Auée | Brighton W | 6.2 | 76 |
| J. Čanković | Brighton W | 6.2 | 76 |
| C. Wamser | Manchester City W | 6.1 | 30 |
| Gabrielle George | Brighton W | 6.0 | 88 |
| M. Mpomé | Brighton W | 6.0 | 14 |
| K. Seike | Brighton W | 5.9 | 90 |
| M. Olislagers | Brighton W | 5.7 | 14 |
| E. Joramo | Brighton W | 5.7 | 24 |
| M. Vanegas | Brighton W | 5.6 | 90 |
The goalkeepers
Saves against shots on target faced; goals prevented is the provider's measure of goals saved beyond what the shots' quality predicted.
33%
A. Yamashita
A. Yamashita- Saves
- 1
- Conceded
- 2
- Rating
- 6.4
63%C. Nnadozie
C. Nnadozie- Saves
- 5
- Conceded
- 3
- Rating
- 7.0
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
Top stats
- 59%Ball Possession41%
- 2.37Expected goals1.03
- 17Total Shots9
- 8Shots on goal3
- 8Corner Kicks1
Shots
- 6Shots off Goal6
- 3Blocked shots0
- 11Shots insidebox6
- 6Shots outsidebox3
Passing
- 589Total passes428
- 526Passes accurate354
- 89%Pass accuracy83%
Defence & set pieces
- 1Goalkeeper Saves5
- 7Free Kicks8
- 3Offsides0
Discipline
- 8Fouls7
- 0Yellow Cards1
- 0Red Cards0
Half by half
- Manchester City W
- Brighton W
| Team | 1H | 2H | T |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manchester City W | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Brighton W | 2 | 0 | 2 |
316.4A. Yamashita
257.2Yui Hasegawa196.6Laura Blindkilde Brown
99.1⚽2K. Shaw
206.5O. Tvedten
86.3M. Symonds
106.2J. Čanković
167.0C. NnadozieManchester City W4-2-3-1Brighton W4-2-3-1Manchester City W4-2-3-1Coach: Andrée Alexander Jeglertz
Bench
13L. WienroitherD
53Mayzee DaviesD
1E. CumingsG
24I. BeneyF
8M. FowlerF
27R. KnaakD
47S. LewisD- 28Gracie PriorD
37C. WamserD
Brighton W4-2-3-1Coach: Dario Vidosic
Bench
15E. JoramoM
28M. LoeckG
5M. MpoméD- 35Emily murphyF
19M. OlislagersD
27S. PeskettM
17R. RaynerM
64Emilie GayD
41T. WarrenM
| 13L. WienroitherD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 37C. WamserD | 30 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Gracie Prior | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 47S. LewisD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27R. KnaakD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8M. FowlerF | 30 | 6.7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 24I. BeneyF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1E. CumingsG | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 53Mayzee DaviesD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 31A. YamashitaG | 90 | 6.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 18K. CasparijD | 90 | 6.3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 1 | 39 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Jade Rose | 90 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 0 | 60 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5A. GreenwoodD | 90 | 6.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 80 | 1 | 77 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Niamh Charles | 60 | 7.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 1 | 22 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Laura Blindkilde Brown | 90 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 79 | 1 | 75 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Yui Hasegawa | 90 | 7.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 3 | 74 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 20A. FujinoM | 90 | 6.4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 37 | 2 | 29 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grace Clinton | 60 | 6.6 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 2 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11L. HempM | 90 | 7.9 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 47 | 2 | 34 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9K. ShawF | 90 | 9.1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Super League Women
| POS | Team | GP | W | D | L | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Manchester City W | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 |
| 2 | Chelsea W | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 23 |
| 3 | London City Lionesses W | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 16 |
| 4 | Tottenham Hotspur W | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 13 |
| 5 | Manchester United W | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 12 |
| 6 | Brighton W | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 |
| 7 | Everton W | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 8 | Arsenal W | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 9 |  Aston Villa W | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 10 |  West Ham W | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| 11 |  Liverpool W | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 12 |  Birmingham City W | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 13 |  Crystal Palace W | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 6 |
| 14 |  Charlton Athletic W | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 |