Liverpool vs Everton, Live Premier League score: Liverpool eye third spot with Merseyside derby win

Liverpool vs Everton, Live Premier League score: Liverpool will be wary of a resurgent Everton.

Anfield hosts Liverpool’s match against cross-town rivals Everton. It is the first Merseyside derby of the season and also the first time since his summer move that Wayne Rooney faces Liverpool in an Everton jersey. Everton’s gloom has been lifted of late and they come into this match on the back of three victories on the bounce in all competitions. Liverpool, on the other hand, have defined the term ‘free-scoring.’ Catch live score and updates of the Premier League match between Liverpool and Everton here. Liverpool vs Everton, Live score and updates: 

KICK OFF: Everton kick off the match at Anfield as snow floats down to the pitch. 21 red cards across 14 matches in this match, wonder if we will see any additions over the next 90 something minutes. 

1939 hrs IST: The teams make their way out of the tunnel, Liverpool in their traditional red and Everton in their traditional blue and their arms screaming ‘ANGRY BIRDS’

1935 hrs IST: 

Football sees no race, gender or species. (Source: Reuters)

1928 hrs IST: Everton had played their Europa League game against Apollon Limassol with a second string side and still came back with a 2-0 win. Liverpool are blasting in goals from all sides. Both teams have hit a good patch of form. Meanwhile there have been doubts as to whether this match and the Manchester Derby would happen at all because of snow. Those fears seem to have been allayed.

1915 hrs IST: So this what is at stake: Liverpool have a chance to open four-point gap between them and Tottenham Hotspur at fifth place. Moreover, if they do get into their free-scoring mode, something they have been in for the past two matches, Liverpool can also replace Chelsea at third place on goal difference. If they draw the match they remain third with their  Then they would be three points behind Manchester United but still 11 behind Manchester City until the Manchester giants play that is. If Everton manage a first win in nearly two decades at Anfield today, they will get within one point of Watford at ninth. A loss on the other hand would keep them at tenth with the chasing pack close on their heels.

1901 hrs IST: That Liverpool squad is a peculiar one indeed. Coutinho, Firmino and Emre Can are on the bench alongwith Danny Ings who is in any Liverpool squad for the first time since September. You may be forgiven for forgetting that he was playing for Liverpool. Quite a head scratcher from Jurgen Klopp. Everton just make one change from their last league match, Niasse is in for Aaron Lennon.

1848 hrs IST: Teams

Liverpool: Simon Mignolet, Joe Gomez, Ragnar Klavan, Andrew Robertson, Dejan Lovren, James Milner, Jordan Henderson, Sadio Mane, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Mohammed Salah, Dominic Solanke

Subs: Laurius Karius, Gini Wijnaldum, Roberto Firmino, Coutinho, Emre Can, Danny Ings, Trent Alexander-Arnold

Everton: Jordan Pickford, Jonjoe Kenny, Cuco Martina, Mason Holgate, Ashley Williams, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Tom Davies, Wayne Rooney (C), Gylfi Sigurdsson, Oumar Niasse

Subs: Joel Robles, Morgan Schneiderlin,  Michale Keane, Phil Jagielka, Aaron Lennon, Nikola Vasioc, Ademola Lookman

1845 hrs IST: Hello and welcome to our coverage of the not so ‘Friendly’ derby, Liverpool vs Everton. Everton come into this match on the back of three back-to-back wins while Liverpool have scored 12 goals in their last two matches against Brighton and Spartak Moscow. The Toffees’ run started with a win against West Ham United that was inspired by Wayne Rooney’s hat-trick with the third goal being walloped in from his own half. While they have had troubles in all departments this season, Liverpool’s chief source of despair has been a soft backline.

Everton have not won at Anfield since 1999. Add to that the tension between Sam Allardyce and Jurgen Klopp (“He’s a soft German,” said Allardyce after his Crystal Palace side beat Liverpool in 2015, “With Sam, I have a kind of history,” Klopp admits later) and the fact that Everton really don’t have anything to lose in this match while Liverpool have a gap to open over Tottenham and a potential third spot to jump to; ladies and gentlemen, we have a proper match here.