Kerr romps to major award after her goal-a-game season

Sam Kerr has been crowned English football’s lady participant of the yr – and Chelsea manager Emma Hayes reckons no-one particular comes close to matching her Australian ace.

The Matildas captain received a large 40 for every cent of the vote in the Football Writers’ Association’s poll to discover the best player in the Women’s Tremendous League.

With her 18 objectives and four helps from 18 WSL online games, there could in no way be any true argument about Kerr deserving the award as, between the 274 gamers in the league, she’s the only a single to have a lot more target involvements than online games played.

The 28-calendar year-old’s most up-to-date accolade was preceded by a heat tribute from Hayes, who had been again grateful for Kerr’s predatory instincts on Thursday with her profitable header towards Tottenham that pushed Chelsea nearer to correctly defending their title.

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“She’s such a leading player, in just about every way,” said Hayes right after the 2-1 house acquire.

“You go and search at her all-all around stats as a centre ahead and no-a person arrives shut to her in this league – maybe throughout the world.

“She will work her socks off, she has the contribution to team objectives, and there’s her individual goalscoring file. Her perform level is phenomenal.”

Nearly certain to get the Golden Boot as the WSL best scorer for a next straight year as her following individual honour, the consummate workforce participant is however far more worried about firing Chelsea to another title.

Her goal on Thursday was the seventh straight WSL match in which she’s scored and if she finds the focus on in the very last two video games of the time, she’ll equivalent teammate Beth England’s document of nine in a row.

But she was only intrigued in supporting Chelsea get their final two matches – at Birmingham on Sunday and at dwelling to Manchester United the subsequent week – which will assurance a 3rd straight title for the Blues.

“There are two video games to go and we’re just likely to grind via,” Kerr advised Sky Sporting activities just after her latest very important contribution at Chelsea’s Kingsmeadow household. “Get all six factors and we’re champions.”

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