Manchester City’s Keira Walsh sets sights on team retaining champion titles

Keira Walsh (left)

Manchester City’s Rochdale-born forward Keira Walsh has set her sights on the team retaining their champion titles this season.

Speaking after the fourth-round draw of the SSE FA Cup at Cedar Mount Academy in Gorton, Manchester, she said the team was ‘looking to win all three domestic trophies’.

She explained: “There is no better feeling than being double champions.”

Last season, Manchester City beat Birmingham City Ladies FC to take home the cup.

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Manchester City Women will face Brighton & Hove Albion in the next round of this season’s SSE Women’s FA Cup.

The final takes place at Wembley Stadium on 5 May.

The team will also play Arsenal in the Continental Tyres Cup final on 11 March, and Linköpings in the quarter-finals of the Champions League (21 March).

Walsh signed her first professional contract with City at the age of 18 in June 2015 and was delighted to put pen to paper on a deal at her childhood club, which runs to the end of 2017.

One of the country's rising stars, Walsh made her debut for City in a 1-0 win over Notts County Ladies in July 2014. Since then, she has blossomed and has gained international experience at youth level with England.

She became a first-team regular towards the end of the 2014 season and played a key role in the Continental Cup-winning side.

Injury hampered much of her 2015 season but she bounced back to regain her place in the starting 11.

In 2016, she helped City to a league and cup double, also making her Champions League debut and scoring the match winner in a last 16 triumph over Brondby IF.