Man Utd kept up their resurgence under new boss Eva Olid as Julia Zigiotti's early chip secured back-to-back victories with a 1-0 win over Liverpool in Leigh.
After a difficult start to life with the Red Devils, losing her opening two games before being thrashed 5-0 by Chelsea, Olid appears to have turned a corner, with seven points from her last three games and an in-form Liverpool dispatched in Leigh.
The visitors contributed to their own downfall when Zigiotti pounced on Khiara Keating's poor clearance to beat the goalkeeper with a perfectly executed chip from just outside the area inside six minutes. "We wanted to start the game quickly and hope they were not prepared, and that's what happened today," she explained to BBC Sport.
Her strike proved to be the only goal of the game, but United could have added to their tally in either half. That said, they were pushed all the way by Gareth Taylor's side, who are enjoying their best start to a WSL season in nearly a decade, but United came within inches of a second five minutes before half-time when Jess Park surged forward from her own half, only to see her effort crash off the crossbar.
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