Liverpool beat Everton at home 2–0.
Mo Salah (second left) was allowed to complete the free winning goal in Everton’s net. PDO
Liverpool went to the local game in the middle of the worst crisis in recent years.
The team hadn’t won a single league game this year, and the placements entitling them to the Eurocups had already run away hopelessly far away.
At this point, the dear neighbor was perhaps the best possible resistance.
– In derbies, the spirit of the team flies out the window, and the feeling may affect the result, Everton’s new manager Sean Dyche anticipate the match.
Dyche had not previously experienced the atmosphere of Liverpool’s struggle for supremacy, so Anfield Road offered him a unique experience.
However, the 51-year-old British manager was not the worst confused by the pressure cooker caused by the traditional stadium, the home crowd and the local game.
Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford of course already played the 201st Premier League game of his career, but despite that he drifted completely incomprehensibly to the edge of his own penalty area in the 36th minute. Mo Salah thanked for the empty net and scored the opening goal at the end of a lightning-quick counterattack.
The hit came about 15 seconds after James Tarkowski had poked the ball into the post of the Liverpool goal. Taunted Darwin Nunez burst into an 80-meter solo run, at the end of which he centered the game tool to a confused Salah.
The Egyptian didn’t really understand why the goalkeeper was not in place. Instead of venting, he looked around in disbelief.
A hit for Gakpo
For Pickford, the giant mistake was already the second in the history of local games. In December 2018, the same Kop End crowd laughed when the Everton striker gifted the winning goal by scooping the ball Divock Origin to the head and through it to the network.
On Monday, his adventure into no man’s land destroyed the already low confidence of the Everton players. Even though Liverpool were in the middle of a streak of unbeaten matches, the visitors were firmly below the relegation zone.
Then you can’t afford to give free goals to the opponent.
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Everton manager Sean Dyche got his baptism of fire in Liverpool’s local games. PDO
At the beginning of the second period, the hosts moved the match beyond the Blues’ reach once and for all. This time Trent Alexander-Arnold recorded the assist point for himself by initialing Cody Gakpon the first complete hit of a short Pool career.
At 2–0, the local game lost its typical unpredictability. The crisis club Liverpool controlled the tempo of the match to the extent of their heart, and it no longer allowed the guests to join the battle for points in the series.
Even after the defeat, Everton are still in the relegation zone, but the league schedule offers them completely winnable home games (Leeds, Aston Villa) before March.
Accordingly, thanks to the home win, Liverpool jumped to the better half of the league table. The gap to Newcastle in the last Champions League position is now nine points. In addition, Pool has one match less played.