Struggling Liverpool Women Prepare to Face Manchester City at Anfield

After a stumbling 2024-25 and following the sale of rising star ahead Olivia Smith to Arsenal, Liverpool Ladies entered the brand new season to a mixture of skepticism and muted expectations, part of the membership many followers have come to imagine homeowners Fenway Sports activities Group don’t have any actual curiosity in seeing succeed.

Do the naked minimal, preserve it ticking over, exist. By no means thoughts profitable issues and even to aspiring to it. However merely to exist as a result of in the future down the street, if the ladies’s aspect of the sport turns into financially profitable, it is going to be helpful to have a girls’s group. Even by these requirements, 2025-26 has began poorly.

“There are some issues we will work on for positive,” supervisor Gareth Taylor stated of his aspect, who’ve zero factors and one purpose scored to indicate for his or her opening 4 Ladies’s Tremendous League video games—however did handle to beat second division aspect Sunderland 5-0 within the first group stage match of the League Cup.

“To keep up assaults a bit extra within the prime finish of the pitch I believe goes to be actually key for us, so now it’s about can we get extra final-third motion? We’re build up fairly effectively, however then we get to the ultimate third and issues are breaking down, so we have to attempt to enhance on that if we will—and I do know we will.”

Even enchancment may not be sufficient to get them off the ground of the desk, the place they’re stage with West Ham in final place—the league’s solely relegation place—however technically away from the drop because of having a barely much less worse purpose differential, given their subsequent opponents are title hopefuls Manchester Metropolis.

Metropolis are presently a degree off Chelsea in first, with 4 wins, a loss, and 12 factors having performed yet one more league sport thus far than the Reds. If there’s a constructive for Liverpool, it’s that whereas Metropolis have been profitable, they’ve additionally conceded seven targets—presently a backside half defensive document within the early season.

“We host Manchester Metropolis on Sunday and it is going to be good to be again at Anfield,” Taylor added. “It’s an amazing sport to play in entrance of our personal supporters and we all know they’re clearly an excellent group. They’ve made a great begin, are second within the WSL, and have some good gamers who can actually do injury.

“However we will probably be there, we will probably be giving our absolute all and are asking our supporters to stick with the group. Hopefully they’ll see we’re working so, so exhausting to attempt to flip this round and enhance our league standing. I’m assured that we’ll get there, however after all we’re conscious we have to enhance.”