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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Beth Lindop

Gabby George admission offers key to Everton's Women's Super League revival

As the Everton players wheeled away to celebrate Gabby George's thunderous, right-footed strike against Reading on Sunday, it felt like the Blues' Women's Super League season had well and truly exploded into life.

The defender's spectacular long-range effort helped Everton secure a 3-2 victory over the Royals that saw them move up to fifth in the table. It was George's first goal since October 2018, though the 25-year-old has become an increasingly lucrative attacking outlet for the Blues since Sorensen's arrival in the summer.

The Dane's decision to convert George into a left wing-back has proved something of a masterstroke, with the defender also having registered two assists so far this term. And George believes Sunday's performance is further evidence of the improvements Everton have made with Sorensen at the helm.

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