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13/2/2023 | 01:15pm
Everton return to Premier League action tonight, hoping to build on their recent success at Goodison Park with a famous away victory over bitter rivals Liverpool at Anfield.
With neither team in particularly sparkling form, this could mark a fine opportunity for Sean Dyche and Jurgen Klopp to kickstart their sides’ respective seasons with the all-important run-in looming.
The Toffees could employ a couple of changes given the relative weakness of tonight’s foes in comparison to Arsenal, who they beat most recently, but the fundamentals will remain in place to try and strangle the Reds’ midfield.
With some small injuries to contend with and having had an extra week drilling the players, the visitors – who only have the short trip across Stanley Park to make – will surely arrive full of hope that they can claim another scalp.
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What could Everton’s XI look like against Liverpool?
Pickford; Coleman, Tarkowski, Coady, Mykolenko; Iwobi, Doucoure, Gueye, Onana, Gray; Simms
Dyche is expected to make two changes from the side which recently hindered the Gunners’ title charge.
Jordan Pickford will remain in goal, having earned his first clean sheet in the league since late October in that aforementioned win.
He sits behind an unchanged back four, who will have another arduous task silencing a threadbare but ever-potent Liverpool front three most likely containing Mohamed Salah. Although the Egyptian has been out of sorts lately, not scoring in the league since Boxing Day, he does boast five goal contributions in eight Merseyside derbies.
Last week’s match-winner James Tarkowski will partner Conor Coady, who thought he had scored the winner in the reverse fixture last September before VAR cut his celebrations short. That pair will be flanked by Seamus Coleman and Vitaliy Mykolenko.
Where tonight’s game could be won or lost is in the midfield engine room, and after Everton’s latest performance, it…
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