It’s been a difficult start to 2025-26 in the Women’s Super League for a Liverpool side looking to regroup and rebuild following a difficult 2024-25, with the Reds without a point from their first five
league games and stuck on the bottom of the table alongside a similarly floundering West Ham.
The one bright spot so far has come in the group phase of the Women’s League Cup, where Liverpool beat second division Sunderland in the first game in that competition back in September. Today, they got their second win of the season, also in the League Cup, on the road against Durham WFC.
“I’m really pleased with the girls,” manager Gareth Taylor said following the 2-1 victory. “I thought they really stuck to the process tonight against a difficult pressing side in Durham who became really, really aggressive after the first five or 10 minutes. The girls managed the game really well.
“For a team that’s been struggling to score goals, we looked like we were going to cut them open and on another night we maybe could have scored five or six. The girls stood up to every challenge that was put in front of them: [a bad] pitch, the high press from Durham, the intensity of all that.”
The hope now will be that Liverpool can play as well as they have against Sunderland and Durham when it’s first division opposition on the other side of things. They will have to wait, though, for November 2nd after the international break, when they head to London to take on Tottenham.
