Leicester climbed off the bottom of the Women’s Super League table and closer to top-flight safety with an emphatic win at home to Liverpool.
Josie Green scored a deflected effort from close range before Carrie Jones struck from distance six minutes later.
Ashleigh Plumptre headed home soon after the break before Missy Goodwin netted in the final minute.
Liverpool struggled to influence the game and rarely troubled Leicester until the final stages.
The result moves Leicester two points clear of the foot of the table and the Foxes now sit in 10th place.
Matt Beard’s Liverpool are all but mathematically safe and have an eight-point advantage over bottom-placed Reading.
More to follow.
Line-ups
Leicester City Women
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 33Leitzig
- 4Bott
- 15Howard
- 22Plumptre
- 2Nevin
- 14GreenSubstituted forRobinsonat 81′minutes
- 30Mace
- 21CainSubstituted forGoodwinat 78′minutes
- 16JonesBooked at 40minsSubstituted forPikeat 69′minutes
- 10Whelan
- 19Siemsen
Substitutes
- 1Lambourne
- 8Pike
- 20Goodwin
- 23Purfield
- 28Levell
- 32Baker
- 34Smith
- 40Robinson
- 41Reavill
Liverpool Women
Formation 4-2-3-1
- 1Laws
- 2Koivisto
- 3RobeSubstituted forBonnerat 45′minutes
- 6Matthews
- 12Hinds
- 18HollandSubstituted forRobertsat 45′minutes
- 8Nagano
- 19van de SandenSubstituted forLundgaardat 45′minutes
- 7KearnsSubstituted forHumphreyat 85′minutes
- 24Stengel
- 29DowieSubstituted forTaylorat 80′minutes
Substitutes
- 4Roberts
- 15Lundgaard
- 17Humphrey
- 21Cumings
- 22Kirby
- 23Bonner
- 35Taylor
