Manchester City’s Rebecca Knaak scored a stoppage-time winner to give her side a nervy 1-0 home victory over Liverpool and put one hand on the Women’s Super League trophy for the first time since 2016.
City top the standings on 52 points with one game left and are out of reach of second-placed Chelsea, who are nine points behind ahead of their clash with bottom side Leicester later on Sunday.
Arsenal’s 7-0 midweek hammering of Leicester puts them third on 41 points, and they have three games in hand on City, with four games remaining. Manchester City have a superior goal difference of seven.
The title race is now firmly in City’s hands and a win at West Ham on 16 May will secure the title, while if Arsenal drop points in any of their three games in hand they play before then – the first of which is on Wednesday at Brighton – the title will be City’s.
City looked nervous in the opening exchanges as Liverpool came close to scoring through an Aurélie Csillag header and a Grace Fisk shot that struck the woodwork.
