Match Thread Everton 2-2 Liverpool. Wednesday February 12th . 7.30 pm

[hallamblue]

Lost only 1 of the last 7 Goodison derbies.

I expect at least a draw.

I think expect is a strong word, but I'd hope we can get a draw and be delighted if we won, but unsurprised if we lose as they have a better team, most if not all of whom were rested at the weekend.

 

[dockroad]

There’s going to be thousands if not 10,s of thousands of supporters without tickets just wanting to be there for the last game around Goodison so switching it to an evening kick off would be silly, but with the clowns running the PL you never know.

I think we can rely on Soton only taking half their allocation so that's another 1,500 tickets for the Blues

 

[Nymzee]

Guess you’re covering all bases then you kopite.

Well Moyes has a terrible derby record so I expect a loss of a couple of goals.

Lost only 1 of the last 7 Goodison derbies.

I expect at least a draw.

 

[GrandOldTeam]

We don't tend to beat them, but to be fair, we rarely lose either.

 

[GoldenToffee]

I'm going out on a limb here and saying I believe we might see all three of:

1. A dodgy, obviously biased VAR decision.
2. An Everton red card.
3. A penalty for the away side.

 

[Rich1878]

Sorry if already posted

 

[SLAVEN BILIC]

Haha is he messing??? Fairly reffed derby for a change and they’re saying they were hard done to. Get to fu__

 

[raiseyoureyebrow4thewin!]

I'm going out on a limb here and saying I believe we might see all three of:

1. A dodgy, obviously biased VAR decision.
2. An Everton red card.
3. A penalty for the away side.

sadly just one incident checks all the 3 boxes.

of cuz its da hope that kills ya, but I am betting on a red card, var call and penalty in our favour.

 

[Blue Willy]

Red card and Salah Pen in the 99th minute?



Salah fouls Beto, who is through on goal. Salah is sent off. Beto slots it in for a victory to the Blues.

Nurse? NURSE?!

 

[Rich1878]

 

[Rich1878]

That's presser was a joke !!

 

[HKContractDave]

We literally can't have more nights barring some fixture changes Chris...

 

[blackie_jones75]

I hope Arnold plays, because I think Illi will destroy him. I also want Mykolenko back because he seems to really step up against Salah. Aside from that, I just wanta good old fashioned chrnel house of a game. Lots of fire and fury. Scare the giblets out of them so that even if they win (and lets face it they almost certainly will), we ensure the game takes its toll on them. I would dearly love to see Tarkowski go right through that little blert Macallister

Yes, he is their main weakness becasue he can't be a55ed defending or challenging for headers in the box

 

[blackie_jones75]

It is really weird that they won 8 games at Goodison between 2001 and 2011 which was out of kilter with all 10 year periods before or since. I don’t think they had particularly good teams in that period but they were a good cup side and,I suppose, a local Derby is akin to a cup match.

Their winning record at Goodison is their best against clubs where they have played more than 75 games at their opponents ground.

Our performance against Man Utd at Goodison is miles better than against them.

Almost winning every year then in that period, that's how the record is fckd, don't; remember them much apart from Clattenberg and McAllister derbies

 

[knowing your history]

The old Moyes had a much better team though, and Liverpool were much worse back then. I can see a good 50-60 then Liverpool being too good and getting a couple.

The Moyes issue in his first spell was always going away to the CL teams and acting like a plucky lower division side in the FA Cup on a big day out.

At home yes there were defeats but there were plenty of good wins against them and other top teams. Just in his final season there was a 1-0 on the first day against Man. United, RS was 2-2 and coming from 2-0 down, 1-1 v Arsenal, that mad 2-1 win over Spurs when 1 down going into injury time and then beat Man. City comfortably towards the end of the season.

I can also remember a 3-0 win over them in 06/07, a 1-0 win in the 4th place season and other draws. Some of the defeats had really bad ref calls at key points. One game when Kuyt scored a late penalty when foul wasn't even in the box and Rodwell getting a red for a decent tackle.