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Van Egmond’s Debut Strike Seals Liverpool Victory

Ten-player LCFC Women produced a battling and resilient display to record our maiden win of the Barclays Women’s Super League season, beating Liverpool 1-0.

2025-09-14T14:48+01:00

by Sam Jones

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14 Sep, 2025

from King Power Stadium

Van Egmond’s Debut Strike Seals Liverpool Victory

Ten-player LCFC Women produced a battling and resilient display to record our maiden win of the Barclays Women’s Super League season, beating Liverpool 1-0.

Sam Jones

2025-09-14T14:48+01:00

Van Egmond’s Debut Strike Seals Liverpool Victory

Ten-player LCFC Women produced a battling and resilient display to record our maiden win of the Barclays Women’s Super League season, beating Liverpool 1-0.

Sam Jones

2025-09-14T14:48+01:00

Van Egmond’s Debut Strike Seals Liverpool Victory

Ten-player LCFC Women produced a battling and resilient display to record our maiden win of the Barclays Women’s Super League season, beating Liverpool 1-0.

Sam Jones

2025-09-14T14:48+01:00

Van Egmond’s Debut Strike Seals Liverpool Victory

Ten-player LCFC Women produced a battling and resilient display to record our maiden win of the Barclays Women’s Super League season, beating Liverpool 1-0.

Sam Jones

2025-09-14T14:48+01:00

Emily van Egmond’s first goal in Leicester colours was enough to see us claim all three points on Filbert Way on Sunday, despite Shannon O’Brien’s red card, which saw us play over half an hour a player down.

It’s champions Chelsea up next for the Foxes next Sunday, in a 12pm BST kick-off at Kingsmeadow, but for now City can toast a first victory under the interim management of Rick Passmoor and a first three points on the board in 25/26.

New faces impress

One change from the defeat at Manchester United in our season curtain raiser saw Deadline Day signing Olivia McLoughlin come in for her full debut, replacing Hlin Eiríksdóttir, who dropped to the bench.

And the new recruit produced an impressive display in midfield alongside Sam Tierney, receiving the Barclays Player of the Match award after a gutsy showing across the 90 minutes.

Celeste Boureille and van Egmond also made their full home debuts, making key contributions at both ends of the pitch, while there was a first runout in front of the Blue Army for Heather Payne from the bench.

The winner

A potentially pivotal moment came 10 minutes into the second half when O’Brien was shown a second yellow card by referee Lisa Benn for dissent after exchanging words following a foul on the Foxes forward.

That served to galvanise the Foxes and just three minutes later, we went ahead. A King Power Stadium debut goal from van Egmond, latching onto captain Janice Cayman’s cross before looping a header over Faye Kirby from close range, proved to be enough, with City deservedly holding on.

Back line stands strong

Starting out in a five-at-the-back system, Leicester showed even more resilience for large periods of the second half, with Janina Leitzig equal to everything that Liverpool threw her way to earn a first clean sheet of the campaign.

In a game of few clear-cut chances, the German ‘keeper had already kept out Mia Enderby’s low shot when she made a diving save to deny Sophie Román Haug’s header, with Gareth Taylor’s side unable to find a way through City’s stubborn defensive rearguard.

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