Everton’s forward Ornella Vignola scored a hat-trick on her debut as the visitors hammered Liverpool at Anfield in Sunday’s Women’s Super League derby.
Everton made it five Merseyside derby wins in five games at Anfield courtesy of the 20-year-old, who joined from Granada in the summer.
Liverpool were the dominant side in the first half and took the lead just 12 minutes in after Cornelia Kapocs thumped the ball past goalkeeper Courtney Brosana to put them 1-0 up. It was manager Gareth Taylor’s first game in charge of the hosts and there were signs of significant improvement from a Liverpool team who had had just weeks to work with him.
But against the run of play, Everton would not lie down and got themselves back into the game through Vignola 12 minutes later.
Liverpool continued to control the game until Katja Snoeijs dealt another sucker-punch with a header on the brink of half-time to make it 2-1 to Everton.
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The second half was all about Everton and Vignola as she scored two more goals to deny Liverpool all three points in devastating fashion.
The result is a blow to Liverpool given their promising start but it shows that the talent Everton have recruited after a summer of major investment has the potential to take them to another level.
“I’m really happy with the win of course. We were not at our levels in those first 35 minutes, but we were leading at half-time which was nice,” said Everton boss Sorensen.
“We had six debutants starting in the first game of the season, in the derby at Anfield, so I don’t know if that played a part.
“We connected about four passes in the first 20 minutes – but we got back into it and saw character from the girls and in the second half we controlled it.”
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