The Merseyside derby is all the time an eagerly anticipated fixture within the soccer calendar and this time round it has explicit significance because it’s the ultimate league assembly between these two groups to be performed at Goodison Park. With Everton shifting into their new stadium for subsequent season, the Blue facet of the town might be determined to wave goodbye to their well-known previous floor with a victory over their fierce rivals.
Liverpool could have native bragging rights on their minds as nicely once they make the quick journey throughout Stanley Park on Wednesday evening. However of extra urgent concern to Arne Slot and his males might be taking on the chance to increase their lead on the prime of the Premier League desk to a commanding 9 factors. The Reds have been in scintillating kind within the prime flight this season, shedding simply one in every of their 23 matches up to now, they usually at present sit six factors away from second place Arsenal, with this sport in hand.
A win for Slot and his staff at Goodison Park would give them a substantial cushion on the summit with simply 14 matches remaining within the season and there’s a normal feeling that if they will overcome this Merseyside derby hurdle, they are going to be very troublesome to cease. The 2019/20 Premier League winners come into this sport off the again of a really uncommon defeat, having crashed out of the FA Cup at Championship Plymouth Argyle. Nonetheless they did make 9 adjustments for the sport and the likes of Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk performed no half down on the coast. Slot’s nicely rested first teamers might be chomping on the bit forward of this one and sportsbook has them as heavy favourites for all three factors, at 2/5.
Everton did nevertheless win this fixture final season, by two objectives to nil and curiously the away facet within the Merseyside derby has failed to attain in every of the final 5 stagings of this fixture. An Everton victory is 6/1, whereas an Everton win to nil is 15/2. The Toffees have picked up kind underneath new supervisor David Moyes, successful every of their final three prime flight matches and scoring eight occasions within the course of, as many as they managed within the 13 video games that preceded underneath former boss Sean Dyche.
If it’s the traits that you just observe you is perhaps curious to study that 5 of the final seven Premier League Merseyside derbies at Goodison Park have been drawn. That final result once more on this one is obtainable at 7/2.
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