Liverpool 2-1 Man City: Reds all but end visitors' WSL title hopes

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Missy Bo Kearns celebrates scoring the winner

Liverpool each but ended Manchester City's rubric hopes successful the Women's Super League with a astonishment triumph astatine Prenton Park.

Missy Bo Kearns fired the victor 2 minutes aft the restart arsenic she neatly controlled the shot earlier uncovering the acold country with an accomplished finish.

Lauren Hemp had equalised for the visitors with a guided header aft Natasha Dowie opened the scoring.

City way leaders Manchester United by six points with 2 games remaining.

Follow unrecorded sum of Sunday's Women's Super League action

The visitors produced a below-par show but came adjacent to redeeming a constituent precocious connected arsenic Hemp's dipping effort failed to transverse the enactment aft bouncing down disconnected the crossbar.

Defeat for Gareth Taylor's broadside fundamentally ends their rubric situation arsenic they person a importantly inferior extremity difference.

More to follow.

Line-ups

Liverpool Women

Formation 5-3-2

22Kirby
2Koivisto
23Bonner
4Roberts
6Matthews
12Hinds
7KearnsSubstituted forTaylorat 77'minutes
8Nagano
18HollandBooked astatine 45mins
24StengelSubstituted forLundgaardat 90+1'minutes
29DowieSubstituted forvan de Sandenat 50'minutes

Substitutes

1Laws
3Robe
5Fahey
9Kiernan
15Lundgaard
17Humphrey
19van de Sanden
21Cumings
35Taylor

Man City Women

Formation 4-2-3-1

1RoebuckBooked astatine 74mins
2CasparijSubstituted forRasoat 62'minutes
6Houghton
5Greenwood
14Morgan
25Hasegawa
12AngeldahlSubstituted forCastellanosat 62'minutes
9KellyBooked astatine 90mins
7Coombs
11HempSubstituted forOuahabiat 90+8'minutes
21Shaw

Substitutes

3Stokes
10Castellanos
13Raso
15Ouahabi
35Keating
42Dahou

Live Text

Match ends, Liverpool Women 2, Manchester City Women 1.
Second Half ends, Liverpool Women 2, Manchester City Women 1.
Substitution, Manchester City Women. Leila Ouahabi replaces Lauren Hemp.
Attempt missed. Hayley Raso (Manchester City Women) near footed changeable from the centre of the container misses to the left.
Attempt blocked. Khadija Shaw (Manchester City Women) close footed changeable from the centre of the container is blocked.
Corner, Manchester City Women. Conceded by Emma Koivisto.
Substitution, Liverpool Women. Sofie Lundgaard replaces Katie Stengel.
Chloe Kelly (Manchester City Women) is shown the yellowish card.
Attempt missed. Esme Morgan (Manchester City Women) near footed changeable from the centre of the container misses to the left. Assisted by Khadija Shaw.
Attempt blocked. Alex Greenwood (Manchester City Women) header from the centre of the container is blocked. Assisted by Chloe Kelly with a cross.
Corner, Manchester City Women. Conceded by Jasmine Matthews.
Corner, Manchester City Women. Conceded by Jasmine Matthews.
Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women) hits the barroom with a near footed changeable from the near broadside of the box.
Attempt blocked. Chloe Kelly (Manchester City Women) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked. Assisted by Stephanie Houghton.
Attempt missed. Alex Greenwood (Manchester City Women) header from the centre of the container misses to the left. Assisted by Chloe Kelly with a transverse pursuing a corner.
Corner, Manchester City Women. Conceded by Taylor Hinds.
Yui Hasegawa (Manchester City Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the attacking half.
Foul by Katie Stengel (Liverpool Women).
Foul by Lauren Hemp (Manchester City Women).
Fuka Nagano (Liverpool Women) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.