I love Liverpool. And I like Everton a lot.
And this derby began as a keenly-contested derby with quite a few fouls, as you would expect.
Without the lubrication of Lallana, I wondered if Liverpool would be a lot less fluent.
Klopps’s solution was to attack narrow, bringing spurting spearhead Sadio Mane into a more central zone.
That plan paid off inside 8 minutes
Senegal’s speed-king played a very slick one-two with Firmino and zoomed beyond Davis and then produced a brilliant left-foot finish after a diagonal run from the halfway line.
Liverpool 1 Everton 0
Early goals are good in derbies, especially if they are scored by the home team.
I love watching Mane because he has speed propelled by desire, like Denis Law and Andy Gray, like Luis Suarez.
Jagielka, restored at centreback, flicked on a Leighton Baines corner across the goalmouth.
Ashley Williams raced in and missed it but young right back Matthew Pennington didn’t.
Liverpool 1 Everton 1 in 28 min.
Almost immediately, Coutinho foxed the right back in the box and scored his trademark goal, firing a bender to the keeper’s right but giving him no chance
Liverpool 2 Everton 1 in 31 and at HT.
In 60, Coutinho gave sub Origi a clever little pass and Robles made it easy for the Belgian striker by wrong-footing himself.Origi really needed that goal. He’s been awful this season.
That was 3-1 to Liverpool.
Mane had gone off after twisting his ankle in a tackle on Leighton Baines but Coutino really stepped up to the plate today.
He scored and had one assist
Once again, Everton’s biggest problem is Liverpool.
They have a massive inferiority complex.
On Ross Barkley, Sky pundit Graeme Souness said,”I don’t see his decision-making improving.”
Carra said Lovren bullied Lukaku.
Also on ANR : http://arsenalnewsreview.co.uk/wp/are-you-an-arsenal-fan-do-you-want-regime-change/