Liverpool Ladies hosted their largest-ever crowd at Prenton Park as they misplaced narrowly to Man United on the ultimate day of the season.
Liverpool Ladies 0-1 Man United Ladies
WSL (22), Prenton ParkMay 27, 2023
Targets: Garcia 72′
With the solar shining on Merseyside, Liverpool Ladies had been narrowly crushed 1-0 by Man United in entrance of 5,778 folks, their biggest-ever crowd at Prenton Park.
The Reds had been sporting subsequent season’s residence strip for his or her last day of the WSL marketing campaign, as they hosted Man United in what may have been a title decider.
The guests wanted Chelsea to drop factors at Studying in the event that they had been to go previous them into first place, however Emma Hayes’ aspect received, rendering the scoreline in Birkenhead meaningless to the title race.
The primary half handed largely with out incident as the sport did not get going because of a number of harm stoppages.
All had been OK to proceed however the half was summed up when Gemma Bonner was pressured off for a brief interval because of one thing flying into her eye.
Some pleasure lastly got here in added time when Nikita Parris, a childhood Liverpool fan from L8, ran onto a protracted move and struck the bouncing ball cleanly to the goalkeeper’s proper.
Rachel Legal guidelines responded by pulling off a spectacular save to maintain the sport goalless, reaching for the ball together with her fingertips to push it onto the submit.
The second half largely carried on in the same vein as extra gamers, together with Emma Koivisto and Bonner, wanted remedy on the pitch.
Man United once more had extra of the ball and utilized strain to Liverpool’s backline, breaking by after 72 minutes because of Lucia Garcia’s swivel within the field and sharp end, simply moments after coming off the bench.
There have been substitute appearances additionally for Rhiannon Roberts and Leighanne Gown, who had been bidding farewell to the Reds after 5 years every on the membership.
Carla Humphrey additionally performed 20 minutes in her final look after two years with the Reds.
Whereas Liverpool confirmed good talent and acceleration on the break, their finish product was severely missing as a number of crosses drifted behind Might Earps’ aim.
The guests, who introduced a giant away contingent, by no means actually regarded at risk because the clock ran out, and Liverpool struggled to get in behind the Man United defence with any consistency.
The Reds could also be upset to not have threatened extra however, for a mid-table aspect like Liverpool, a 1-0 defeat to the league’s runners-up is nothing to be ashamed of.
It hurts simply that bit extra, although, as a result of it’s Man United.
At the very least they didn’t win the league on Merseyside!
Liverpool Ladies: Legal guidelines, Koivisto (Gown 75′), Bonner, Matthews, Hinds (Daniels 86′); Nagano, Fahey (Roberts 66′), Kearns (Humphrey 75′); Van de Sanden (Dowie 66′), Stengel, Holland
Subs not used: Cumings, Kirby, Taylor, Lundgaard
