Beata Olsson’s late goal rescued Liverpool by earning a priceless point at West Ham in the meeting of the Women’s Super League bottom two at Chigwell Community Stadium.
The Reds appeared to be heading for a damaging defeat before the 87th minute, when Olsson capitalised on a defensive error by Amber Tysiak and tucked home.
Liverpool remain winless and will spend Christmas at the bottom of the WSL, two points behind West Ham.
But given the Reds were reduced to 10 players after 19 minutes when Gemma Bonner was sent off and would have been five points from safety had the Hammers held on to win, this will go down as a point gained for Gareth Taylor’s side.
Ffion Morgan appeared to have won the game for West Ham after Liverpool’s Mia Enderby had earlier cancelled out Riko Ueki’s opener.