EPL: Liverpool v Everton: derby in stats and numbers
Liverpool have lost just one of their last 22 Premier League games against Everton (W9 D12), though it did come in this exact fixture last season.
Everton won this exact fixture 2-0 last season, ending a 20-game winless away run against Liverpool in the Premier League (D9 L11). They’ve not won consecutive league visits to Anfield since February 1986.
Liverpool are looking to complete the league double over Everton for just the second time in the past 10 seasons, previously doing so in this run in 2016-17.
Everton’s 2-0 win against Liverpool at Anfield last season was the first time they’d kept a clean sheet in eight away league games against the Reds. They last kept consecutive away clean sheets against their local rivals in January 2004.
No Premier League fixture has finished as a draw more often than Everton v Liverpool (24), while the Merseyside derby has seen the most red cards (22) and most 90th minute winners (5) in the competition’s history.
? After winning 14 consecutive home league games on Sundays between November 2018 and December 2020, Liverpool have won just two of their last seven at Anfield on this day (D3 L2).
Everton have won fewer away points than any other side in the Premier League this season, while Liverpool have won the most home points so far this term. Five of Everton’s six points on the road this term came in their opening four away games (W1 D2 L1).
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Everton have lost 10 of their last 11 Premier League away games (D1), including each of the last six in a row. It’s their longest run of consecutive away defeats since a run of eight between April and October 1994.
Mohamed Salah scored twice in Liverpool’s 4-1 win against Everton in the reverse fixture this season. The last Liverpool player to score 2+ goals in both league meetings with the Toffees in a single campaign was Dick Forshaw in 1925-26 (3 at home, 2 away).
Liverpool’s Divock Origi has scored more Premier League goals against Everton than he has versus any other side (5). Three of his five league goals against the Toffees have proven to be the winning goal of the game.