Liverpool vs Everton live scores: Liverpool
is playing Everton in the Merseyside derby
, the first of eight Premier League
matches at Anfield.
Fernando Torres and Glen Johnson might not play the match due to knee injury.
Yossi Benayoun will not be playing this match due to a rib injury.
The match is scheduled to start at 12:45 on Saturday 6th February 2010.
The match is being telecast live on ESPN.
The old Merseyside foes are reunited at Anfield where David Moyes, the Everton manager, takes charge as a manager for the 600th game. Before joining Everton he had 196 games with Preston North End and, so far, he has taken charge of 298 Everton matches.
Since losing at Portsmouth, Liverpool have gone six Barclays Premier League games without defeat, taking 14 points from a possible 18. Everton are unbeaten in nine Premier League games and their last defeat was the 2-0 home loss against Liverpool, in November.
Mikael Arteta and Joseph Yobo undergo tests for Everton but Tony Hibbert and Phil Jagielka remain on the sidelines. Liverpool are still without Fernando Torres, their leading scorer, who has missed the last four games after undergoing a knee operation. Yossi Benyoun and Glen Johnson are also still on the missing list.
Liverpool (4-2-3-1): Reina; Carraghe
r, Skrtel, Kyrgiakos, Insua; Aquilani, Mascherano; Kuyt, Gerrard, Riera; Ngog.
Everton (4-4-1-1): Howard; Neville, Heitinga, Senderos, Baines; Donovan, Fellaini, Osman, Pienaar; Cahill; Saha.
Referee: Martin Atkinson. Matches: 19. R0 Y78.
This season: Everton 0 Liverpool 2.
Last season: Liverpool 1 Everton 1, Everton 0 Liverpool 2.
Stat of the game: At Anfield, eight of the 17 meetings have ended all-square with Liverpool winning seven and Everton just two, most recently in September 1999.
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