#5 · 7 pts | W2 D1 L1 | +4
Liverpool Women win Wednesday's League Cup trip to St. Andrew's Stadium against Birmingham City.
The derby win over Everton was the first time Liverpool Women had beaten their neighbours at Anfield in the Women's Super League — a structural fact that made last Sunday's 2-0 result something more than three points, though the table still says position five with seven points from four matches. This paper called the result correctly yesterday, and the win was built on precisely the shape the scoreline implies: Cornelia Kapocs, whose two goals and one assist lead the attack across league and cup this season, added to her tally alongside Beata Olsson, ending five consecutive home derby defeats per BBC Sport. On balance, expect Liverpool to win Wednesday's League Cup trip to St. Andrew's Stadium against a Birmingham City side that has conceded ten goals in four Women's Super League games and taken just two points from the same run. The question that Wednesday settles is whether Liverpool's goal-scoring structure — six different players contributing across three fixtures, none dominant, all functional — holds when the opposition is organised around containment rather than contest; Birmingham's 17.5 tackles per game tells you they will not simply concede the ball, and Liverpool's 59.4% possession average in the league means they will have to find combinations against a side set up to frustrate rather than to open. Kapocs and the goal-difference question travel with them.
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#7 · 4 pts | W1 D1 L1 | +2
Liverpool Women win narrowly at home against Everton in the Merseyside derby on 27 September 2026.
The supporters filing into Anfield on Sunday carry something particular into this fixture — a derby, and the particular weight of identity that word carries on Merseyside. Liverpool sit seventh on 4 points from three WSL matches, and the evidence suggests they'll need to find their cutting edge against a side that has been tighter in front of goal. On balance, expect Everton to frustrate but Liverpool to edge it: a narrow home win, with the Merseyside crowd doing as much as the system.
Everton arrive fifth with 6 points from three games, conceding just 1 goal all season — a defensive record that makes Liverpool's attacking output the central question. Vivien Endemann leads Liverpool's combined WSL and League Cup scoring with 2 goals and 2 assists; Grace Fisk has contributed 2 goals from defence, a reminder that set pieces and runs from deep have already been a source of threat. Liverpool's 4-2 home win over Sunderland showed they can open up space in the final third, but the 2-4 away loss to Manchester City at Joie Stadium showed the other side of a side still working through its defensive shape. Aurélie Csillag, who has spoken to The Guardian about the club's Beyond the Goalposts initiative and the visibility it creates, brings her own kind of meaning to the occasion — not just as a footballer but as someone the next generation is watching closely at exactly this kind of fixture.
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