Yeovil Town Ladies 1-2 Liverpool Women: Courtney Sweetman-Kirk scores winner
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Courtney Sweetman-Kirk's winner came in the third minute of stoppage time
Courtney Sweetman-Kirk's acrobatic stoppage time winner ended Liverpool's seven-game winless league run and dented Yeovil Town's survival hopes.
The Reds took a first-half lead through Sweetman-Kirk's penalty, after Yana Daniels was brought down by Yeovil keeper Megan Walsh.
After half-time, Emily Donovan fired in a clinical equaliser after latching on to Annie Heatherson's through ball.
Both sides pushed to win it before the Reds striker hooked in late on.
Liverpool substitute Leandra Little almost put Liverpool in front before Sweetman-Kirk's second, but her powerful strike was tipped over the bar by Walsh.
The dramatic late winner saw Vicky Jepson's eighth-placed visitors move 10 points clear of danger.
Yeovil, who have lost seven straight games in all competitions since their only win of the season so far - November's 1-0 victory over Everton - are now three points adrift of the Toffees.
But the bottom two sides - Yeovil and 10th-placed Everton - both have a game in hand on their relegation rivals.
Yeovil defender Nicola Cousins told BBC Sport:
"It's hard to take but that's the best performance we've had as a squad, collectively. We had most of the possession.
"It's happened in the last few moments of the game. It's fine margins.
"We're so close but yet so far when it comes to points, but we have to keep believing. We'll keep grafting. One win and we'll be back in it."
Liverpool's match-winner Courtney Sweetman-Kirk told BBC Sport:
"It's always nice to score important goals but I must admit I'd have rather we'd done it with a less tense atmosphere, going a couple of goals up in the first half.
"But the most important thing was to get a win. We'd been on a bad run. The fact that we ground this out was a good thing.
"We've been through a lot, but the one constant has been our attitude and our togetherness. We all have confidence in each other. There is no squabbling on the pitch and we got the job done in the end."