MatchThe opposition lowdown: Everton

Recent form

Everton are unbeaten in their last nine Premier League games.

Since the 2-2 draw with the Reds at Goodison Park on February 12, they beat Crystal Palace 2-1 away from home and then drew four in a row: versus Manchester United, Brentford, Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Ham United.

The latter was the Blues’ most recent outing and saw Jake O’Brien score a stoppage-time equaliser for David Moyes’ side in a 1-1 draw.

Key players

Beto and Iliman Ndiaye have been the most frequent scorers for Everton in the top flight this term with six goals apiece.

Topping the assist chart are Idrissa Gana Gueye, Dwight McNeil and Ashley Young on three each.

Ahead of this midweek round of matches, only Matz Sels and David Raya had registered more Premier League clean sheets in 2024-25 than the Toffees’ Jordan Pickford’s nine. He is the only goalkeeper to have saved more than one penalty in the division this term (two).

Team news

Moyes reported at his pre-match press conference that the visitors are ‘hopeful’ Vitalii Mykolenko could be available after a slight injury.

“We still have to wait and see tomorrow exactly how he is,” the Everton boss said on Tuesday of the full-back, who trained the previous day.

McNeil and Ndiaye are “getting closer” as they recover from knee issues, while Dominic Calvert-Lewin is still dealing with a hamstring complaint.

Previous meetings

The second Merseyside derby of the campaign comes just seven weeks after the first.

A dramatic encounter at Goodison ended all square after James Tarkowski scored for the hosts eight minutes into added time. Arne Slot’s Reds had previously overturned Beto’s opener through strikes from Alexis Mac Allister and Mohamed Salah.

The last Anfield clash between the clubs was in October 2023. Liverpool won that one 2-0 thanks to a second-half double from Salah.

What they said

Moyes

“I think Liverpool’s league position tells you that how they’re playing is what they’ll probably do. They have been in a great position. They have had a couple of really tough games, PSG and a tough game against Newcastle; that can happen, no team is entitled to win all their games in football. It’s a big game, it always has been for us to go to Anfield and try to get a result. Always been incredibly difficult to go there and get a result. But we go again, we’ve got another chance to try it again.”

Pre-match stats

• Everton have scored 41 per cent of their Premier League goals this season from non-penalty set-pieces (13/32), a league-high ratio.
• The Blues have won four of their last five top-flight games in the month of April (one loss), keeping a clean sheet in each of those victories.
• They are on their longest unbeaten run going into a league meeting with Liverpool since February 2010 (also nine), when they lost 1-0 at Anfield under Moyes.
• A goal for Beto or Tarkowski in this game would make them just the second Everton player to score home and away against Liverpool in a single Premier League campaign, after Andrei Kanchelskis in 1995-96.