The Merseyside derby is at all times an eagerly anticipated fixture within the soccer calendar and this time round it has specific 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 town can be determined to wave goodbye to their well-known previous floor with a victory over their fierce rivals.
Liverpool can have native bragging rights on their minds as effectively after they make the brief journey throughout Stanley Park on Wednesday evening. However of extra urgent concern to Arne Slot and his males can be taking over 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, dropping simply considered one of their 23 matches thus far, and so they presently sit six factors away from second place Arsenal, with this recreation in hand.
A win for Slot and his group 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’ll overcome this Merseyside derby hurdle, they are going to be very troublesome to cease. The 2019/20 Premier League winners come into this recreation off the again of a really uncommon defeat, having crashed out of the FA Cup at Championship Plymouth Argyle. Nevertheless they did make 9 modifications for the sport and the likes of Mohamed Salah and Virgil van Dijk performed no half down on the coast. Slot’s effectively rested first teamers can 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 apparently 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 developments that you simply comply with you could be curious to study that 5 of the final seven Premier League Merseyside derbies at Goodison Park have been drawn. That end result once more on this one is accessible at 7/2.
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