Liverpool Women 4-3 Chelsea Women: Emma Hayes' side suffer blow in WSL title race as Reds win seven-goal thriller

Chelsea's WSL title bid is hanging by a thread as Gemma Bonner's dramatic injury-time winner gave Liverpool a thrilling 4-3 win in one of the games of the season, leaving Manchester City with all the initiative in the title race.

Having been dumped out of the other three cup competitions in the last month, Emma Hayes' side were looking for a response to send the departing Blues manager off with a trophy, and looked on course for victory as Aggie Beever-Jones headed in a ninth-minute opener.

But Liverpool dominated the game from that point and two goals Sophie Roman Haug (51) and Erin Cuthbert's own goal (66) - both from corners - turned the game on its head.

Then came a mad final 10 minutes as Beever-Jones smashed in an equaliser (80), but substitute Leanne Kiernan immediately gave Liverpool their lead back 60 seconds later as the Chelsea defence fell asleep.

Catarina Macario then smashed in an equaliser on 83 minutes, when ended up going down as a Teagen Micah own goal, which looked to have given Chelsea some hope in the title race.

However on her 150th appearance for Liverpool and against her former side, Bonner headed into the far corner in the third minute of stoppage-time to settle a dramatic game, which saw Chelsea miss more chances before the full-time whistle.

The result means Chelsea are six points behind leaders City with just one game in hand and a much worse goal difference. City do, however, host Arsenal this weekend, meaning Hayes is needing a title favour from the Gunners and Jonas Eidevall, with whom she clashed in the Continental Cup final in March.

Despite the remaining fixtures, Hayes believes the title race is over, telling Sky Sports after the game: "I have amazing memories of this football club and we won