Liverpool host Everton within the Merseyside derby at Anfield aiming to increase an ideal report of 4 wins from their opening 4 Premier League video games.
David Moyes is but to win at Anfield in all 22 profession matches as a supervisor.
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BBC Sport examines a few of the key themes to analyse whether or not that would change on Saturday.
Liverpool’s late present continues
Liverpool maintained their 100% profitable report due to Virgil van Dijk’s injury-time winner in opposition to Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, with all 5 of their victories earned due to targets from the 83rd minute onwards.
Liverpool have scored late winners way more ceaselessly than their Premier League rivals [BBC]
Head coach Arne Slot stated after the sport that health was a part of the rationale for his workforce’s outstanding report, including “our mentality is we are going to all the time push”. However are the champions extra susceptible this season?
The win in opposition to Atletico was the third time this season the Reds have let a two-goal lead slip and though they’ve recovered to win these matches, it’ll give encouragement to opponents that they continue to be within the recreation – and Everton may have the entire assist they’ll get at Anfield come Saturday lunchtime.
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Moyes’ Anfield woes
The Toffees are but to win away to Liverpool this century in a match by which the Kop contained supporters. Their solely triumph up to now 25 years got here through the Covid pandemic in 2021 underneath the stewardship of Carlo Ancelotti.
Moyes, in the meantime, has failed in all 22 makes an attempt to win a recreation at Anfield with any membership. He has travelled with Everton 13 instances, shedding on six events.
So why might that report change on Saturday? Moyes’ mostly used formation at Anfield has been 4-2-3-1 – which is identical tactical set-up which has been carried out so successfully this season.
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The most important distinction has been Everton’s summer season of profitable signings by which 9 new gamers have been introduced in at a report web spend of £97m.
Everton have performed on the entrance foot in wins over and this season, whereas they have been unlucky to attract with final weekend after losing a number of golden probabilities.
Having ranked 18th for targets from open play within the Premier League in 2024-25, scoring simply 25, the Toffees have attacked with aplomb this season.
Historical past means that Moyes tends to be extra pragmatic away to the most important sides and in Everton’s final 10 visits to Anfield underneath the Scotsman over the previous 20 years, the Toffees have scored a complete of simply 5 targets, changing solely 6.7% of their probabilities.
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They’re statistics that should certainly enhance if Everton are to safe an evasive derby win.
Everton have struggled to attain targets at Anfield underneath David Moyes [BBC]
Will an early or late objective win the sport?
For all of Liverpool’s domination of this fixture on dwelling soil, derbies on Merseyside are usually tight, wherever they’re performed.
On the final eight events that Everton and Moyes have visited their neighbours, there have been 4 attracts and three video games settled by a single objective.
There may be additionally a way that regardless of Liverpool’s formidable firepower, they’re extra susceptible than in latest seasons.
And whereas Slot’s males sit prime of the Premier League desk, they’ve been reliant on late targets, which means Everton have truly led for 26 minutes extra within the Premier League this season – and an early objective might be essential at Anfield.
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All 5 of Everton’s league targets have come within the first 55 minutes of video games, together with three within the opening half hour, whereas Liverpool are but to go behind.
If Moyes’ males can take, and preserve, an early lead, they have to additionally face up to the inevitable barrage late on at Anfield – Liverpool have scored 47 winners after the ninetieth minute within the Premier League period, at the very least 13 greater than another workforce.