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Post by Everton News. on Aug 29, 2022 11:35:12 GMT
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Post by Everton News. on Sept 2, 2022 8:36:49 GMT
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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 2, 2022 9:55:20 GMT
We could surprise them - Interesting team selection dilemma for Frank.
I would like him to stick to 4-3-3
Maybe - Pickford , Miko, Coady, Tark , Patterson Iwobi , Onana , Gana Gordon , Maupay , Gray.
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Post by rugbytoffee on Sept 2, 2022 9:57:18 GMT
TEAM NEWS Everton forward Neil Maupay is set to make his debut after he was ineligible for the draw at Leeds United, while new arrival Idrissa Gueye may also feature.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Abdoulaye Doucoure, Ben Godfrey, Mason Holgate and Yerry Mina remain out.
Liverpool welcome back Darwin Nunez following suspension, while Diogo Jota has returned to training.
Jordan Henderson is sidelined after being substituted with a hamstring issue in the win over Newcastle United.
Arthur is eligible to play after joining on loan from Juventus on Thursday.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Everton have won just one of their last 23 Premier League games against Liverpool, a 2-0 victory at Anfield in February 2021. Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 11 league games away to Everton (W3, D8) since a 2-0 loss in October 2010. The Reds can win back-to-back fixtures at Goodison Park for the first time since a run of three victories between 2007 and 2009. Everton have won four of the last five Premier League Merseyside derbies when they scored the opening goal (losing the other), but those five games cover a 17-year period from 2004 to 2021. The Toffees' current run of 11 Premier League home matches without a win versus Liverpool is their longest in the top flight at Goodison against a single opponent. The Merseyside derby has seen an unrivalled 22 red cards in the Premier League era.
Everton
Everton could draw four successive Premier League games for the first time since a run of four ended in November 2012, a sequence which included a 2-2 home draw with Liverpool. The Toffees are averaging five shots on target per game in the Premier League this season, their highest since 2016-17 and up from their average of 3.6 last season. In 2022, all six of Everton's Premier League defeats at Goodison Park have been by a single-goal margin (four 1-0, two 3-2). The most recent club to win a top-flight away fixture versus the Toffees by more than one goal were Liverpool, in the 4-1 victory last season. The Blues can remain winless in each of their opening three home matches for the first time since 2014-15 under Roberto Martinez. Frank Lampard has lost all four of his Premier League meetings with Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp, with his sides conceding at least two goals each time. Lampard has had 80 Premier League matches as a manager (57 for Chelsea, 23 for Everton). He picked up 69 points in his first 40 games, but only 49 points in the 40 fixtures since. Anthony Gordon, 21, can become the youngest Everton player to score in three consecutive Premier League games since Romelu Lukaku did so aged 20 in October 2013 and the youngest Englishman since 19-year-old Francis Jeffers in September 2000. Seamus Coleman is set for his 18th Premier League appearance in Merseyside derbies, equalling the Everton record held by Tim Howard, Tony Hibbert, Leighton Baines and Leon Osman.
Liverpool
Liverpool have scored 40 winning goals in the 90th minute in the Premier League, 12 more than any other side. They are yet to win on the road this season, having won seven of their last eight away from home in the league in 2021-22. Liverpool could lose consecutive Premier League away fixtures for the first time since February 2017 (2-0 at Hull City and 3-1 at Leicester City). The Reds last failed to win any of their first three away league games in a single campaign in 2010, when they went four without a win under Roy Hodgson. Liverpool have scored in 52 of their last 53 Premier League matches. The exception was a 1-0 defeat at Leicester City on 28 December 2021. Three of Mohamed Salah's four Premier League goals for Liverpool against Everton have come at Goodison Park. Only Michael Owen, with four, has scored more away goals for the Reds against the Toffees in the competition. Salah has scored 144 goals and made 49 assists in the Premier League since making his debut in February 2014. During this period Raheem Sterling is the only player to reach 100 goals and 50 assists (107 goals, 53 assists) despite Salah spending two and a half seasons in Serie A. Darwin Nunez can become the second player to score in both of his first two Premier League away appearances for Liverpool, emulating Jan Molby in August 1992.
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Post by Everton News. on Sept 2, 2022 17:13:40 GMT
Three summer signings are available to make their Everton debuts in the Merseyside derby on Saturday.
The Blues host Liverpool at Goodison Park in a lunchtime kick-off (12.30pm BST), with Neal Maupay, who was unable to be registered for the 1-1 draw at Leeds United last time out due to Premier League requirements, Idrissa Gana Gueye and James Garner eligible for the matchday squad.
Discussing deadline-day recruits Gana and Garner at his pre-match press conference, Lampard said: "Gana Gueye is a player for the now, of course. The Club knows him very well and he knows the Club.
"In terms of his qualities, he's a deeper-lying midfield player - a number six or number eight, which he's been doing at PSG a lot. He gives me a great option and great experience. He's a different profile of player to what we've got, so I'm really, really pleased with that one.
"Then, with James Garner, on the flip of the strategy [we applied to the signing of Gana], he's a young player with lots of energy and lots of quality. He'll improve with us - and improve us.
"I think it's a good example of us trying to move forward in a sensible direction, improving the team, improving the core of the team in midfield - getting energy in there, as well as quality.
"Now we've got good competition in there as well, which is important, of course, with a long season."
Lampard also confirmed he has no fresh injury concerns ahead of the 241st clash between the local rivals.
Two injured players are closing on a return to action, too, and while neither will be involved this weekend, Abdoulaye Doucoure completed his first training session on Friday after overcoming a hamstring problem and Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who sustained a knee injury during training in the week leading into the opening week of the campaign, is expected back next week.
Mason Holgate (knee), Yerry Mina (ankle), Ben Godfrey (fractured fibula) and Andros Townsend (ACL) remain side-lined.
Reflecting on the summer transfer window, which saw eight new arrivals for the Blues, Lampard added: "I am very pleased [with the business we did] - and pleased the window is shut! It's something that has spun a long way into the season and probably complicated things slightly for a lot of clubs.
"I think we were very strategic in the way we approached the window from a long time ago. The Club is joined up from owner, to Chairman, to Board, to myself and Kevin Thelwell.
"[We looked at] what could we do to improve us, how we could do it in the right way and hopefully that reflects in what we get now.
"We didn't want to bring in someone for the sake of bringing them in. We've got a short window now until the window opens again, because of the World Cup that is coming around.
"When I look at the squad I'm happy and now it's time to get our heads down and work."
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