Zelem: Sir Bobby Charlton touched so many hearts

“It was such sad news and I think you can see from everyone's posts and what they said, he touched so many people's hearts,” Katie told MUTV post-match on Sunday.

“He was a real club legend and for us, we had that in our minds going into the game.

“That performance was for him.”

After hitting the front early on, Skinner's side upped the ante in the second half and scored three times in the final 20 minutes to put the game beyond any doubt.

The win extended our unbeaten start to the new WSL campaign and, afterwards, England international Zelem explained the impact that our new signings had on the afternoon, as they continue to integrate into the squad.

“We obviously made nine new signings and it's about getting them in to gel with the team and learn how we play.

“I think integrating them in slowly has been really beneficial and as you can see, Ire [Irene Guerrero] making her debut, it's a totally different league to what she is used to and it's the same with Hini [Hinata Miyazawa].

“It's nice that they can start to learn how we play and they're beginning to look like they've been here forever.”

With Brighton and Hove Albion to come, as our next opponents after the international break, Katie believes that the Reds can take momentum into that fixture off the back of the high-scoring victory on Merseyside.

“I think that was us hitting our rhythm now, we have had a lot of factors this week whether it be a sickness bug, the PSG game.

“As you can see we've not got that many players around but I think we all rallied together and put a performance in that we were really proud of.”