Everton Ladies Head Coach Andy Spence insists the 3-2 win over Reading in the Continental Cup can “kickstart our season”.
Goals from Claudia Walker – her first since returning from long-term injury over the summer – plus Inessa Kaagman’s maiden strike for the Toffees earned a morale-boosting vicory over the Royals, the perfect way to begin life at Southport’s Merseyrail Community Stadium.
After defeats to Durham and Birmingham City, Everton exploded out the traps and could have gone in front inside the first minute, but Rachael Laws denied the clean-through Kaagman.
But it set the tone for a pulsating 90 minutes of football that will lift confidence going into tough games against Manchester City on Thursday and Sunday’s visit of Chelsea.