Gareth Taylor was pleased that his Liverpool team managed to take a point from their bottom-of-the-table clash with West Ham United – albeit with only ten players.
Gemma Bonner was sent off in the 19th minute after a foul on Riko Ueki.
Ueki then put West Ham a goal to the good after 57 minutes, but Mia Enderby equalised two minutes later.
Anna Csiki then restored West Ham’s advantage after 68 minutes – before Beata Olsson came to Liverpool’s rescue three minutes from time.
And the Reds boss said he was proud of the way his team had battled.
“I think the girls gave everything,” he said after the match, according to the club’s official website.
“It was a really difficult situation. The game becomes not what you want when you lose a player like that and an experienced player especially in Gemma. But I think the girls dealt with it really, really well. We had to adjust quite a few things and make some changes initially and then make some further changes due to the threats we saw.
“It’s really difficult when you’re down to 10 players. You have to give the players great credit; they worked really hard and got the point today.”
Gareth Taylor: You have to be careful with appeals
He added that he thought the red card had been a harsh decision, explaining: “I’ve seen it back. I don’t think it’s a red card – I really don’t. I think Jenna Clark is playing Ueki onside, if that makes sense, so she’s closer to the goal. I think straight away that has to be taken into consideration that it’s not a goalscoring opportunity.”
But he refused to be drawn on whether the club would appeal the sending-off, saying: “You have to be careful with appeals. Sometimes if they go against the appeal, they can make the ban even longer, so I’m not too sure. This is where we would like the officials to be able to express themselves with the decisions they make afterwards and stand in front of a camera like we do.
“We all get things wrong… we just would like a bit of a better understanding.
“Of course, if we had the technology, we would look back on that today straight away and see it’s not a red card situation.”
Liverpool remain bottom of the WSL table on three points.
