Melissa Lawley floats in a corner from the Liverpool right but it is headed wide and Rachel Rowe is beckoned on to the pitch.

Liverpool win a corner but there is a stoppage in play here as Reading's Rachel Rowe gets some treatment on her right ankle. She is up and seems to be intent to continue despite limping off to the touchline.

Strong challenge from Liverpool's Shanice van de Sanden and the Netherlands forward is the first player into the book.

Sam Miller
Former West Ham and Tottenham player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sport Extra

It really is an end-to-end game. It feels like if you blink you'll miss some action. It's so transitional.

Sam Miller
Former West Ham and Tottenham player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sport Extra

An inch-perfect cross from Melissa Lawley.

I was just saying that you can't give Lawley time on the ball because she will deliver and that's exactly what she's done.

It was a fabulous cross from Lawley, Liverpool made it look so easy and what a header as well!

Rachel Furness almost adds a second goal for the visitors as she plants a header inches wide from a Liverpool free-kick into the box.

Reading had the better of the opening exchanges but now have a mountain to climb in this basement battle.

The Royals have conceded 13 first-half goals in 8 games this season, more than any other team in the WSL.

That's a fourth goal of the season for Liverpool's top scorer, Katie Stengel.

The ball lands on the head of Liverpool's Shanice van de Sanden in a central position from a Melissa Lawley cross but it seems to take her by surprise. The visiting forward didn't seem to expect that one and the ball just bobbles into the hands of Reading goalkeeper Grace Moloney.

Sam Miller
Former West Ham and Tottenham player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sport Extra

Reading look really composed on the ball. We're seeing an early start from them. I think that sometimes Reading have felt that they come out too slowly and that's something that they've worked on. They're maintaining possession well now.

Natasha Dowie holds the ball up well and the Reading forward wins a free-kick in a good position on the right corner of the Liverpool box.

Amalie Eikeland holds her head in her hands after getting free at the near post from the resulting set-piece to poke the ball just past the post. Great early chance.

Liverpool's Rachel Furness is denied by a magnificent defensive block from Deanna Cooper on the edge of the box as she runs on to a Melissa Lawley pull-back. The ball goes behind for a corner that comes to nothing.

The visitors finally starting to find their feet.

Both teams employing wing-backs and it has been a cagey start.

A strike from distance from Charlie Wellings on the half-volley gives Liverpool goalkeeper Eartha Cumings a comfortable early take.

The players take a knee before Liverpool get the game underway.

Away we go!

The teams are out, here is a reminder of those starting XIs.

Reading: Grace Moloney, Diane Caldwell, Deanna Cooper, Emma Mukandi, Lily Woodham, Justine Vanhaevermaet, Tia Primmer, Amalie Eikeland, Charlie Wellings, Rachel Rowe, Natasha Dowie

Liverpool: Eartha Cumings, Taylor Hinds, Jasmine Matthews, Niamh Fahey, Emma Koivisto, Rachel Furness, Charlotte Wardlaw, Ceri Holland, Melissa Lawley, Katie Stengel, Shanice van de Sanden

Sam Miller
Former West Ham and Tottenham player on BBC Radio 5 Live Sport Extra

It's interesting, you wouldn't normally associate Reading with being so low down in the table.

They are known to be a mid-table team challenging for a place in the top half of the table.

They haven't had the best start to the season. Their defeats have been narrow defeats but I feel that something has to change.

If you look at the stats they really never score in the first half, they seem to get a goal later on in the second half. They need to start games better.

As mentioned earlier, Taylor Hinds is making her 50th appearance for Liverpool tonight - a great milestone for the versatile 23-year-old defender.

She keeps her place in a Liverpool starting line-up that includes four changes - their most from one match to another in the WSL this season.

Following their shock opening day win against champions Chelsea, Liverpool suffered five consecutive defeats before picking up that point against Brighton.

Rachel Furness’s stoppage time equaliser was not only Liverpool’s first point since September but the first draw in the competition this season after 42 matches.

Liverpool are back in the WSL after a two-year absence following last season’s promotion from the Championship.

Their fortunes have lifted since the return of manager Matt Beard to the club in 2021 for his second spell in charge having led the team to back-to-back Super League titles in 2013 and 2014. They currently sit 10th in the table.