Having reached the half-way point of the 2025-26 season, Liverpool Women find themselves at the very bottom of the FA Women’s Super League table and in the lone relegation place having managed to take just three points from 11 matchweeks.
The good news, if there is any good news in that, is that those three points have all come over the past five games. It may be a megar 0.6 points per game haul, but if they can keep it up ten points is a viable season target that just might ensure survival.
“I thought
the response from the team was really good at West Ham,” reflected manager Gareth Taylor of their most recent game, a 2-2 draw. “There were some big positives with Mia Enderby getting her first goal and Beata Olsson netting again.”
West Ham are the only other side Liverpool appear to be truly battling to avoid ending the season in last place and being relegated, with the Hammers on five points at the moment and so two clear of the Reds. If you squint, it hardly seems a massive gap.
Of course, for a side that hasn’t won a league game at the half way point, that two points hardly seems a massive gap might be a little misleading. Still, as bad as things have been, the last few games have been slightly better and survival remains possible.
“We made a few changes tactically and made it really difficult for West Ham,” Taylor added. “We were really disappointed to concede two goals from set-pieces and that is something we need to tidy up on, but we take the point and we move on.”
