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One mile and the River Mersey separate the two stadiums between Liverpool “Anfield” and “Everton” Gadison Park. The match between the two teams is one of the biggest derby in England and the world, known as the Merseyside derby because of the Mercy River because the two clubs have views of the river.
The game took its importance from the history of the beginnings of the two teams, since the beginning was with the founding of Everton 1878, 14 years before the founding of the Liverpool team, and the Tofes (the nickname of the Everton team) were taking advantage the “Anfield” stadium, and after financial problems between a member of the Everton management and the owner of the “Anfield” stadium, the team left Blue to take new land and build their “Goodison Park” stadium in 1892.
Everton will face Liverpool at “Goodison Park” at 1:30 pm on Saturday, in the opening matches of the fifth round of the Premier League competition.
Everton achieves their best start in many years in the Premier League, after scoring the total score of 12 points in the first four rounds under the leadership of Italian coach Carl Ancelotti.
As for Premier League champions Liverpool, they fell through a tough defeat in the last round, losing 7-2 to Aston Villa, to stop their score at 9 points.
The two teams have met before in 234 matches in all competitions and the first meeting was in 1894 for one of the oldest derbies in the world.
Liverpool won 93 matches, while Everton won 66 matches, and a tie was the 75-match title.
As for the Premier League competition, which changed its name to the current one in 1992, the Reds won 24 matches out of 56 matches that brought the two teams together, while the draw was at 23 and Everton won just 9.
Liverpool scored 331 goals in the Tovees net, while their goals were conceded only 262 goals in all their matches.
