If a good striker can always get their team out of a hole, Alessia Russo is doing her best to drag Arsenal out of a deep chasm of uncertainty. Her two goals gave the under‑pressure Arsenal head coach, Renée Slegers, some brief respite with a much-needed, albeit still rather unconvincing victory. Russo’s double took her impressive recent tally to seven goals in her past four appearances. Her goals were priceless for an Arsenal team who arrived on Merseyside with just one win in their previous seven Women’s Super League games. They will be relieved to have won after Liverpool posed plenty of problems and the hosts were unhappy about a disallowed goal.
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