How Liverpool fans got WSL team to match Premier League side after Manchester United embarrassment and Jurgen Klopp message

Every season, there is always one team who outperforms all expectations and achieves what few would have thought possible.

In the WSL this season, that team is Liverpool.

It was only last season that Liverpool suffered an embarrassing 6-0 defeat to Manchester United at Leigh Sports Village.

Few could have predicted that it would be Liverpool who would be the team to close the gap on that formidable top four.

Indeed, no team other than Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United or Manchester City has finished within the top three WSL spots since the 2014/15 season.

But Liverpool's story is a unique one and few sides can claim to have experienced the extreme ups and downs they have had.

They are one of just four teams to have won the WSL — what's more, to have won it twice in a row.

But they are also the only WSL winners to ever have been relegated, showing just how far they fell from their previous heights.

Now though, they are on their way back up.

When asked at the start of this season which WSL team were most likely to close the game on the league's Big Four, it was Aston Villa that was on the lips of many.

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But where Villa's hopes have plummeted, Liverpool's have skyrocketed.

Matt Beard's side have done so well that they are currently level on points with fourth-place Manchester United, only behind them on goal-difference.

In recognition of their progress, manager Beard was voted Barclays WSL Manager of the Month for his work in December, having been nominated for the two previous months' awards too.

They head to face second-place Manchester City next in a match which has the potential to shake up the Champions League places entirely.

Indeed, if Liverpool's stellar season continues,