Liverpool – Everton: One-way derby

(Baonghean.vn) - The Anfield team is showing superiority over its neighbor in every aspect. It is likely that in this match, Liverpool will make rival Everton continue to feel the pain. The two teams will meet on December 10.

Entering this season, the blue half of Merseyside had high expectations from experts and fans. In addition to successfully retaining coach Koeman on the coaching bench, Everton's board of directors also spent a record amount of nearly 140 million pounds to bring in a series of famous stars. Unfortunately, things did not turn out in accordance with the investment.

The team nicknamed The Toffees continuously achieved bad results, and as a matter of course, coach Koeman was fired to make way for new captain Sam Allardyce.

Coach Sam Allardyce on his debut day at his new team Everton. Photo: Internet

The strong decision of the Goodison Park top brass has helped Everton temporarily stop the rapid decline. In the last 3 matches in all competitions, Rooney and his teammates won all 3. They defeated West Ham 4-0, Huddersfield 2-0 and most recently, a 3-0 victory over Apollon in the Europa League.

Under the guidance of veteran coach Sam Allardyce, Everton is no longer the pale, tired, easily defeated team as at the beginning of the season. To defeat Everton at the present time is not simple at all.

However, that was still not enough to help The Toffees get a favorable result against the home team Liverpool. In addition to the advantage of playing at Anfield - where Liverpool have never lost to Everton in the past 17 years, coach Klopp and his team also have a much higher performance.

According to statistics, since the 1-4 defeat against Tottenham (October 22) until now, the "Red Brigade" has gone through 9 unbeaten matches in all competitions (6 in the Premier League, 3 in the Champions League) with a record of 7 wins and 2 draws. It is enough to see how superior Liverpool's form is compared to Everton's.

The match between the two teams last season at Anfield, Liverpool won 3-1. Photo: Internet

In addition, the force in the hands of coach Klopp is also rated higher than what coach Sam Allardyce owns. Stars like Salah, Coutinho, Firmino, Mane, Henderson... have much more professional qualifications than Sigurdsson, Gueye, Davies Calvert-Lewin... on the away team (except captain Rooney). "Without flour, there is no glue", no matter how talented Big Sam is, it is difficult to build Everton into a powerful force with average players or those who are on the other side of their careers.

In such a situation of being inferior to Liverpool in all aspects, Everton must be mentally prepared to accept a heavy defeat. Only relying on the honor factor of the derby to win against Liverpool right at Anfield is an impossible task for coach Sam Allardyce and his team. In short, in this Merseyside derby, 3 points will be difficult to escape from the hands of the "Red Brigade"./.

Thanh Hung