Khadijah Shaw scored a hat-trick to lead Manchester City to a 7-0 rout of Sheffield United in their FA Women’s Cup fourth round match at the Academy Stadium on Sunday.

Prior to the match Manchester City manager Gareth Taylor, promised they would not take their second-tier opponents lightly.

"With some of the teams you play, there's not a huge amount of difference in level between the kind of top end of the championship to the bottom end of the WSL,” he said.

“I think it's just making sure that as a team, we are prepared, we're focused. We're not being neglectful of the opposition.”

They were not.

In a dominant display in which Manchester City took 27 shots, 14 on target, Shaw opened the scoring in the 16^th minute. The three-time FA Women’s Cup champions doubled their lead when Chloe Kelly scored in the 38^th minute as City threatened to run rampant.

Deyna Castellanos then scored on the stroke of half-time to send City into the break with a 3-0 lead.

Shaw was against first on the scoresheet with her second goal six minutes after the resumption before Julie Blakstad scored the first of her two goals in the 53^rd minute.

Blakstad scored her second in the 78^th minute to make it 6-0.

Shaw completed her hat-trick in the 87^th minute to complete the rout.