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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Megan Feringa

'Disappointing' Everton learn a valuable lesson as weaknesses revealed against Chelsea

Everton manager Brian Sorensen refused to accept compliments for his Everton team after their 3-1 loss to Chelsea as he bemoaned his side’s lack of composure and decision-making as the differences between his Toffees and the top teams in the Women's Super League.

Everton suffered their second loss of the season when they welcomed the reigning champions to Walton Hall Park on Sunday, putting an end to their promising run of back-to-back league wins against Liverpool and Leicester City.

The hosts put Chelsea under pressure in the opening stages and did well to equalise through Kadeisha Buchanan's second-half own goal after going a goal down from Pernille Harder's first-half opener. Yet a failure to be more clinical cut Everton's players dejected as Harder’s brace and Niamh Charles’s injury-time goal took the gloss off an encouraging performance.

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