Players.bio is a large online platform sharing the best live coverage of your favourite sports: Football, Golf, Rugby, Cricket, F1, Boxing, NFL, NBA, plus the latest sports news, transfers & scores. Exclusive interviews, fresh photos and videos, breaking news. Stay tuned to know everything you wish about your favorite stars 24/7. Check our daily updates and make sure you don't miss anything about celebrities' lives.

Contacts

  • Owner: SNOWLAND s.r.o.
  • Registration certificate 06691200
  • 16200, Na okraji 381/41, Veleslavín, 162 00 Praha 6
  • Czech Republic

Liverpool’s Leighanne Robe denied in thrilling WSL Merseyside derby draw

A Merseyside derby would not be a Merseyside derby without a touch of controversy and the first WSL edition to be held at Goodison Park did not disappoint. Liverpool wanted revenge for their 3-0 humbling by Everton earlier in the season and thought they had it when Leighanne Robe swept them ahead. The referee decreed otherwise, ensuring the outcome would be as fiercely contested as the occasion itself.

A Goodison record crowd of 22,161 showed up on a Friday night and were rewarded with a richly entertaining derby that could have swung either way. Everton led through captain Gabby George before Liverpool striker Katie Stengel levelled shortly before the interval.

Both sides had chances for victory in an open, frenetic second half. Both sides had goals disallowed – Robe controversially for Liverpool and Jess Park legitimately for Everton – while home goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan produced impressive late saves to preserve a point for Brian Sørensen’s side.

Matt Beard, his Liverpool counterpart, was rightly enthused by the strides his team have made since September’s reverse at Anfield but at a loss to explain referee Lauren Impey’s decision to disallow Robe’s goal for an apparent foul by Ceri Holland on the Everton keeper. “Crazy,” he called it. “It should not have been disallowed and on the chances we should have won the game. She has not impeded her and the goal should have stood 100%.”

Sørensen countered: “I haven’t seen it again but they say she was stood in front of the goalkeeper and blocking her view. Their goal was a clear offside so maybe it is compensation.”

George provided the spark that the derby and the crowd needed on her 100th appearance in the WSL. The game laboured for 27 minutes with both teams adopting a

Read more on theguardian.com