Key events
16 minutes: Beth Mead makes her first real breakthrough, going left. He cuts the ball back across the box, but no one gets on the end of it.
15 minutes: Leah Williamson gives the ball in the middle of the park, the deer and Smith join her. I manage to recover and extinguish the threat of defense armaments.
12 minutes: good chance! Taylor Deer whips in an inviting cross from the left, the tackler can’t clear his lines and it falls to Smith, who beats the shot beyond the post.
10 minutes: Liverpool win the second free kick and Ceri Holland have a short with Fuka Nagano, who spills to play. Eventually the ball returns to Holland, but his shot is blocked.
5 minutes: Mariona Caldentey gives away a free kick in a dangerous position with a reckless challenge. Liverpool pump the ball into the box and Gemma Bonner gets a break with McCabe and Olivia Smith involved but, despite some encouraging words of hope, no penalty results. There was not much in the matter.
4 minutes: The two sides go up in size with each other, wide areas are searched for an early hole without fruit. Katie McCabe finds Caitlin Foord when she sweeps the ball across and fires a shot against the crossbar, despite the flag going up for offside regardless.
to kick!
You’ll Never Walk Alone echoes around the stadium, shakes the players’ hands, takes a knee from one side to the other, and without further ado we’re under Merseyside.
Elsewhere, Manchester City lost 2-1 at Everton. with Chelsea dropping points at Leicester yesterdayNow that the arsenal is in place, it is convenient to finish the two tops.
Speaking to the sky before the game; Beard spent several months in Liverpool treacherously. “It’s been a good week, a positive week,” he said. “We’ve had a lot of projection this first half of the season, we’re keeping a small squad, as everyone can see.
“When you have a small squad, it has an effect on you. If you look at the system, the team sheet, it’s tough when you have to keep the team’s shifts as you don’t have consistency.
The improvement of the defensive arsenal was one of the best improvements under Sleger. In the NCAA’s nine games, they conceded just three goals. Meanwhile, Liverpool he conceded four against Juventus at last the weekend Here they need a great turn of fortune.
Liverpool’s home form has been particularly dicey this season; Matt Beard with only two points on his home turf. Armamentary, meanwhile, left the league unbeaten. Omens favor the visitors.
Team news
Liverpool: Micah, Fisk, Clark, Bonner, Matthews, Hinds, Nagano, Shaw, Holland, Enderby, Smith.
Armory: Van Domselaar, Fox, Williamson, Catley, Caldentey, Mead, McCabe, Maanum, Foord, Russo, Cooney-Cross.
The beginning
It was the last round of matches before the WSL winter break and Arsenal, the league’s top form behind Chelsea, took on Liverpool. When entering as the interim head coach of Arsenal the departure of Jonas EidevallRenée Slegers presides over an unbeaten streak in all competitions and will be looking to extend that run at the St Helena Stadium this afternoon.
Liverpool are seventh in the standings and have lost their last three league games on the bounce, failing in each of them. They had more success in the League Cup in midweek, beating Everton 4-0 in the Merseyside derby, and will hope to build on that momentum, but lost 2-0 to Arsenal last January.