Liverpool beat Everton to boost top-4 chances

Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool kept their top four contention alive in the English Premier League (EPL) after smashing 3-1 past an ineffective Everton in a Merseyside derby played on Saturday at Anfield, Liverpool. I saw also some tackles from Lucas and that’s all about football, but we don’t make a show like the bench of Liverpool about faults, what happened on the pitch.

Jurgen Klopp said Liverpool’s 3-1 win over Everton was “well deserved” and refused to be drawn into a war of words with Ronald Koeman.

Klopp jumped up and down on the touchline when Barkley lunged into Lovren, which appeared to annoy Koeman in the opposite dugout. “According to the bench of Liverpool – I don’t mean the manager – the referee should have shown eight red cards”.

The Blues fell behind to Sadio Mané’s eighth minute goal but hit back through Matthew Pennington shortly before the half hour mark, only to cede the impetus back to the reds when Philippe Coutinho was allowed to cut through and fire past Joel Robles. We’re different, we’re more into the game and not about what happened with referees, linesmen and tackles.

I see him as the kid in the playground.

“Obviously he has pain and it didn’t look like it’s only a knock or a muscle or something but we have to wait”.

“I’m really emotional but my teams are always top of the fair play table because aggressiveness is to hurt yourself”.

He avoided a booking for a bad early foul on Emre Can and then only got a yellow card for a crude, studs-first lunge on the left ankle of Dejan Lovren that enraged Klopp and his backroom staff. “Say about it what you want”, before walking off.

“You need to learn from this, but I am proud of the way we played because that is the way that I like Everton to play”.

Everton manager Ronald Koeman opted against making changes at half-time and his faith was nearly justified when Everton threatened an equaliser.

Koeman finally made a switch, introducing the experience of Gareth Barry and Enner Valencia for Tom Davies and Pennington, but one misdirected Dominic Calvert-Lewin header aside, Liverpool were comfortable.

The Gunners’ current form is far from impressive, and they will have to step up their game against Manchester City this weekend.