Manchester City continued their winning start to the new Women’s Super League season but the defending champions needed a 90th-minute own goal from Grace Fisk to help them edge past an ever-improving Liverpool side after an entertaining game in which Lauren Hemp scored twice.
Moments after Hemp’s opening goal, with 13 minutes on the clock, the entire crowd rose to applaud the late Matt Beard, the former Liverpool manager, in reference to the year 2013, when he won the first of two consecutive WSL titles with Liverpool.
The away side deservedly struck back and found themselves 2-1 up before the half-hour mark, as their pressing gave the defending champions a headache.
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Gareth Taylor will have taken encouragement from his Liverpool team’s performance, on a night when they made the league leaders dig deep. Moments after Hemp’s opening goal, with 13 minutes on the clock, the entire crowd rose to applaud the late Matt Beard, the former Liverpool manager, in reference to the year 2013.
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Manchester City continued their winning start to the new Women’s Super League season but the defending champions needed a 90th-minute own goal from Grace Fisk to help them edge past an ever-improving Liverpool side after an entertaining game in which Lauren Hemp scored twice.
Fisk inadvertently turned Grace Clinton’s cross into her own net to put City 3-2 up and then – with Liverpool searching for an equaliser and committing players forward deep in stoppage time – Hemp added another on the counterattack to make it 4-2 and widen the margin of victory, but that masked how well the visitors had played. Gareth Taylor will have taken encouragement from his Liverpool team’s performance, on a night when they made the league leaders dig deep.
Moments after Hemp’s opening goal, with 13 minutes on the clock, the entire crowd rose to applaud the late Matt Beard, the former Liverpool manager, in reference to the year 2013, when he won the first of two consecutive WSL titles with Liverpool. Supporters of clubs across the WSL and WSL2 have been invited to applaud at the same time in games across this weekend, to mark a year since Beard’s death on 20 September 2025. Beard was a character and successful coach at Liverpool, whose performance would have done him proud.
The away side deservedly struck back and found themselves 2-1 up before the half-hour mark, as their pressing gave the defending champions a headache.
Keating did well to block Hemp’s strike but was unable to prevent the ball trickling into the path of the onrushing Shaw, who gratefully poked home.
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