📊EOTK Stats Pack: Everton v Liverpool - Form guide, manager attrition rates and MORE
We analyse some of the key stats and info ahead as the Merseyside rivals vie for local bragging rights in a timeless fixture!
Everton’s win over Nottingham Forest at the weekend, coupled with a heavy defeat for Luton, has decreased the likelihood that tonight’s Merseyside derby will be the last-ever one at Goodison Park.
The Toffees will vacate their long-time home for their new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in the summer of 2025, but with Sean Dyche’s team taking a big step towards securing another campaign in the Premier League on Sunday, this timeless fixture will probably have its Goodison blowout next season rather than now.
Liverpool are also heading into a new era as the Jurgen Klopp farewell tour nears its conclusion, with the German having just five more matches in charge of the Reds before he takes a sabbatical from football.
Both teams have plenty to fight for other than local bragging rights, with Everton still looking for the points which’ll ensure top-flight survival once more, and LFC pushing to win a second Premier League title for their dpearting manager.
🗨️ Will Liverpool and Everton both have reasons to celebrate at the end of the season? Have your say in the comments below
Both clubs enjoyed morale-boosting wins on Sunday at the end of a chastening week, but only one will end the night with satisfaction as they lock horns for the latest Merseyside derby.
Ahead of Liverpool’s short hop across Stanley Park, let’s take a look at the form guide for both sides, as well as their head-to-head Premier League record, and the revolving door which has been the Everton manager’s job during Klopp’s nine-year reign at Anfield.
📈 Form guide: Everton and Liverpool’s last six Premier League games
Everton: W2, D1, L3, F5, A11, Pts 7
Everton have almost identical home and away records this season (five wins, four draws), although the balance has been drastically redressed as the campaign went on.
They’ll take heart from two wins and two clean sheets over their last couple of home games, the perfect antidote to a run of nine matches without winning on the road, dating back to the triumph over Burnley at Turf Moor in mid-December.
The Toffees conceded as many goals in one night during that 6-0 thumping by Chelsea as they’ve scored themselves over their past seven outings.
Liverpool: W3, D2, L1, F11, A7, Pts 11
Despite being in contention to win the Premier League, Liverpool have kept only two clean sheets in their 14 top-flight matches so far this year, away to Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest.
The recent defeat to Crystal Palace was only the second league game all season in which the Reds didn’t find the net, and the third in 2024 where either they or their opponents were held scoreless.
The win at Fulham on Sunday prevented Klopp’s team from going three top-flight games without a victory for the first time in the current campaign.
⚔️ Liverpool’s Premier League record v Everton
The Merseyside derby is one of just 15 fixtures to have been played in every Premier League season since the division’s rebranding in 1992.
Recent history is very much in Liverpool’s favour, with Everton winning only one of the last 26 top-flight derbies, their 2-0 triumph at Anfield behind closed doors three years ago.
The Reds have kept a clean sheet in each of the last four derbies, dating back to their 4-1 away victory in December 2021.
However, that battering of Rafael Benitez’s Toffees is Klopp’s only win at Goodison Park in his last six attempts, with the other five all being drawn, and four of those ending 0-0.
🗨️ Will we be in for another goalless draw in tonight’s Merseyside derby? Give us your score predictions in the comments below.
🔙 Last Goodison Park meeting
Everton 0-0 Liverpool, 3 September 2022
A similar scoreline played out in the most recent Goodison Park derby, although it was anything but a drab stalemate.
The upright was struck three times, while Jordan Pickford made three fine saves for Everton, displaying a rather more admirable side to his character than he did in this fixture two years previously when taking out Virgil van Dijk.
Alisson Becker pulled off two good stops of his own, although Conor Coady did find a way past the Liverpool stopper when diverting a Neal Maupay shot into the visitors’ net.
However, a lengthy VAR review denied the defender a derby-winning goal against his former club, and it was a result which continued the Reds’ inconsistent start to a difficult season, leaving them on just nine points from their first six games.
♻️Revolving door - the seven Everton managers Klopp will have faced in a Goodison Park derby
As the curtain prepares to fall on Klopp’s time at Liverpool, speculation is inevitably rife about who’ll take over from him.
Everton fans may well be glad that the topic of managerial change on Merseyside is finally focused on the red half of the city, considering the extraordinary attrition rate at the Toffees since the German took charge across Stanley Park in 2015.
This will be Klopp’s eighth and final derby at Goodison Park, and Dyche will be the seventh different manager he’s faced in those fixtures:
19 December 2016 (1-0 to Liverpool): Ronald Koeman
7 August 2018 (0-0): Sam Allardyce
3 March 2019 (0-0): Marco Silva
21 June 2020 (0-0): Carlo Ancelotti
17 October 2020 (2-2): Carlo Ancelotti
1 December 2021 (4-1 to Liverpool): Rafael Benitez
3 September 2022 (0-0): Frank Lampard
The only other club with a comparable attrition rate during Klopp’s Liverpool reign is Chelsea, against whom the German has also faced seven different bosses over his nine Premier League visits to Stamford Bridge:
31 October 2015 (3-1 to Liverpool): Jose Mourinho
16 September 2016 (2-1 to Liverpool): Antonio Conte
6 May 2018 (1-0 to Chelsea): Antonio Conte
29 September 2018 (1-1): Maurizio Sarri
22 September 2019 (2-1 to Liverpool): Frank Lampard
20 September 2020 (2-0 to Liverpool): Frank Lampard
2 January 2022 (2-2): Thomas Tuchel
4 April 2023 (0-0): Bruno Saltor
13 August 2023 (1-1): Mauricio Pochettino
Coincidentally, there are three men on those lists to have managed both Everton and Chelsea - Lampard, Benitez and Ancelotti.
The next time that the Merseyside duo face off at Goodison Park, Liverpool will definitely have a different manager in place. History suggests that the Toffees may also have, depending on when the fixture takes place and how well Dyche can perform in his current role.
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