Liverpool had taken a 12th-minute lead at Anfield through Cornelia Kapocs and were well on top.<\/p>\n
But Vignola’s moment of magic in the 24th minute dragged her side back into the game. <\/p>\n
She raced past midfielder Ceri Holland, carrying the ball from the halfway line towards Liverpool’s area, and fired it past goalkeeper Faye Kirby from a tight angle.<\/p>\n
It was the spark Everton needed and Katja Snoeijs’ header on the stroke of half-time meant they went in at the break 2-1 up despite being heavily outplayed. <\/p>\n
Toffees boss Brian Sorensen admitted: “In football there are things that happen that can change things in a game at the flip of a coin. She brought us back from a very deep place. <\/p>\n
“I knew that we would come back then. I think that moment changed the game.”<\/p>\n
And how Everton came back. Sorensen switched things up at half-time, introducing club record signing Ruby Mace in midfield and added experience in defence.<\/p>\n
Vignola, who made two appearances for Barcelona at the start of her career, was braced for her opportunity nine minutes after the restart.<\/p>\n
She got two in as many minutes and scored both. Suddenly, Everton were 4-1 ahead and well on course to extending their unbeaten run in this fixture to eight games.<\/p>\n
Did Sorensen expect Vignola to have such an impact?<\/p>\n
“No! Not three goals from her,” he added. “I expected her to score which is why I started her. She was superb and she has been like that in training. <\/p>\n
“Her runs are so well-timed and the way she faces up and goes at players, she is excellent. She just wants to score. <\/p>\n
“I said to her afterwards she has set the benchmark for what I want to see. She is still a young player though, so let’s see. Today was a good debut.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool had taken a 12th-minute lead at Anfield through Cornelia Kapocs and were well on top. But Vignola’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,4884,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-406120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-northern-ireland","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115164957306334402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}