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Although the phrase says that “the classics are not played, they are won”, what Everton and Liverpool demonstrated at Goodison Park was the opposite. Two teams faithful to their style that knew how to take advantage of their conditions at key moments of the game.
Klopp’s men at 2 minutes opened the scoring with Mané, at 18 ‘Keane tied for the local and in the second half the last 20 minutes were more intense for the goals of Salah and Calvert-Lewin to arrive. In addition, the VAR annulled a goal to Henderson for apparent offside.
With 13 points, Everton remains undefeated and for now maintains the leadership of the Premier League; while, Liverpool reached 10 units and was second. The next date, those of Ancelotti will visit Southampton and those of Klopp will receive Sheffield.
First half: Intense and even
This is how the first half was played at Goodison Park. Liverpool took the lead after two minutes with Mané’s goal in a play that they repeated during the initial 45 minutes. Change of front from right to left so that from there Robertson took the opportunity to elude his rival and take a cross at ground level for Mané to define without a mark.
The equalizer for Everton came in the 18th minute when James took a corner kick from the right.ay Michael Keane beat his marker to anticipate even Mina and achieve the header that beat Adrián for 1-1.
James had to do a lot of work on defense to double the marks. Captain Coleman was injured in the 31st minute and made his debut for Ben Godfrey who served in the right-back position.
In offensive phase he began to appear after 20 minutes when they were able to seize the ball to look for Calver-Lewin and Richarlison, who tried with some shots to the hands of Adrian or deflected. The Colombian threw himself to the center of the field to release himself from the pressure and mark that Klopp put him with Robertson and Fabinho.
Second half: the VAR influences the result
The ’16’ started connected putting a crossed ball for Digne who crossed first and Calvert-Lewin could not define well against Adrián who in two halves kept the ball. Everton started with possession of the ball while Liverpool tried to exploit the wings with Robertson and Alexander-Arnold.
The precision of the Colombian midfielder almost gave the assist for Richarlison’s goal that ended up finishing Adrián’s right post with a header. When Everton seemed to be in control of the game, Liverpool reacted and at 71 ‘found the second goal through Salah, who took advantage of a bad rejection from Mina to finish first and make it 2-1.
Ancelotti put Iwobi and Sigurdsson in to look for more offensive play and try to tie the game. However, Liverpool with the advantage returned to be the owner of the ball and Pickford gradually became a figure. Everton were left with 10 after Richarlison was sent off for a tough tackle on Thiago.
Everton’s push took him to nine minutes after the visitor’s touchdown to equalize with a Calvert-Lewin goal Heading again as Keane had scored, this time Digne’s center went to the penalty spot. When it seemed that it ended tied, the visit took advantage of the man of more in the field and in a play that annulled the VAR by apparent out of place of Mané, invalidated the goal that Henderson had scored after the Senegalese’s assistance.
