- Arsenal Women are 3rd in the Super League Women 2025/2026 with 45 points from 20 games. Liverpool FC Women are 11th with 17 points from 21 games.
- Arsenal Women have won three, drawn one and lost only once in their last five matches (all-competitions).
- Liverpool FC Women have won two and lost three of their last five.
Liverpool’s ‘long ball’ tactics may fall flat at Anfield
Liverpool FC Women have experienced a difficult start to the 2025-2026 Super League Women season and currently occupy a lowly 11th place in the table with just 17 points from their first 21 games.
Gareth Taylor was appointed as manager in August 2025 and he has been tasked with rebuilding the club in his own image. The Red Women play a high-intensity, structured pressing style that allows them to build up in possession and make fast transitions at the highest tempo.
In a direct comparison with Arsenal Women, however, Taylor’s system should probably be considered a pressing-focused, progressive possession strategy. Renee Slegers’ Gunners play a patient, possession-based style that will slowly build up attacks in numbers before rotating players into goal areas. They are not the most prolific of teams but they know what they are and play with a clear tactical identity.
Gunners have the quality to cut through Liverpool’s pressing
This fixture is given added spice by the fact that Taylor took charge at Anfield in August 2025 while Slegers was appointed by Arsenal in October 2024. Arsenal have also poached several notable players from Liverpool recently, but it is the form of the teams and the quality of the players that will decide this fixture.
Arsenal are clearly superior and are justified favourites at 1/4. However, Liverpool have won just three of their ten home league fixtures this season, conceding 12 goals at an average of 1.20 per game.
A draw on Saturday looks unlikely and at 8/1 Liverpool look ridiculously priced for a result. Arsenal will get the better of them again, as they did in the Super League Women 2024/2025, when they won 2-1 at home, but have lost only once on the road this season with six wins and three draws.
Slegers’ side have an outstanding away record
The Gunners should be able to control this game and win it, but the odds are so short that it makes sense to take a chance on a draw at 9/2 and go with both teams to score at a shade of odds against at 22/25.
Beata Olsson is Liverpool’s leading scorer in the league with six from 15 games and is the team’s only real goal threat. Arsenal have more to pick from with talisman Alessia Russo topping the team’s scoring charts with 11 from 20, but Ceri Holland has been a bright spark for the Reds of late with two of their four goals in the last five coming from her boot.
Arsenal’s 3-0 away win over Aston Villa Women followed a Champions League defeat to Olympique Lyonnais Women, while Liverpool have lost their last three, including successive home defeats and an FA Cup exit to Brighton & Hove Albion Women. The Gunners have dominated the recent head-to-head and look likely to do so again.
