Liverpool remain pointless in the Women’s Super League this season after Manchester City came from a goal down to win 2-1 at Anfield for the second season running.

It was a fifth loss out of five for Liverpool since Gareth Taylor’s appointment as head coach in August but this victory was no more than Manchester City deserved. The Merseyside club have a game in hand on the teams around them but are joint bottom of the table with West Ham. This latest defeat will have felt particularly personal for Taylor, who spent five years in charge of City before being sacked in March just days before the League Cup final.

His old side created all of the first-half opportunities but were fairly wasteful in the final third. Kerstin Casparij did hit the target when the ball rolled to her after Khadija Shaw was tackled in the box, but her left-footed shot went straight at Rafaela Borggräfe, who produced a one-handed save to keep out an Aoba Fujino strike, after the winger had raced on to Vivianne Miedema’s slick pass into the penalty area.

In contrast to their lack of adventure into the City area during almost the entire first...