Liverpool hold on against Everton after Gravenberch stunner opened derby

Ryan Gravenberch’s 10th-minute stunner acceptable Liverpool connected their mode to a 2-1 triumph against Everton successful the Merseyside derby.

Liverpool stretched their cleanable Premier League commencement to support their stranglehold of the Merseyside derby with a 2-1 win implicit Everton and unfastened up a six-point pb astatine the apical of the table.

Goals from Ryan Gravenberch and Hugo Ekitike were the defending champions’ reward for a ascendant archetypal fractional connected Saturday and capable for a 5th consecutive Premier League win.

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But Liverpool ran retired of steam aft the interruption and were near hanging connected aft Idrissa Gana Gueye fired Everton backmost into the contest.

Arne Slot’s men had needed precocious goals to triumph each of their erstwhile 4 Premier League games and Champions League opener against Atletico Madrid successful midweek.

This clip the Reds did the bulk of their bully enactment wrong the archetypal 30 minutes to permission Everton inactive without a triumph astatine Anfield successful beforehand of a assemblage successful the 21st century.

Slot near some his 100 cardinal pounds ($135m) positive signings Florian Wirtz and Alexander Isak connected the bench, but Liverpool were each the amended balanced for the instrumentality of Alexis MacAllister alongside Dominik Szoboszlai and the awesome Gravenberch successful midfield.

The Dutch midfielder broke the deadlock conscionable 9 minutes successful with a deft decorativeness connected the half-volley from Mohamed Salah’s cross.

Salah came adjacent to a 2nd moments aboriginal with a powerfully struck effort connected his trusty near ft that flew conscionable wide.

Everton had been connected a four-game unbeaten tally acknowledgment successful ample portion to the signifier of the resurgent Jack Grealish.

The Manchester City loanee was unsurprisingly astatine the bosom of their champion first-half determination with a walk done to Kieran Dewsbury-Hall, who fired wide from a constrictive angle.

Liverpool’s Ryan Gravenberch scores their archetypal extremity past Everton’s Jordan Pickford [David Klein/Reuters]

Liverpool responded successful benignant to a good squad determination culminated successful Ekitike rolling Gravenberch’s walk done the legs of Jordan Pickford for his 3rd extremity successful 5 Premier League games since his determination from Eintracht Frankfurt.

But the 2nd fractional was a wholly antithetic communicative arsenic Liverpool astir saw different two-goal pb vanish aft being pegged by Bournemouth, Newcastle and Atletico already this season.

Fatigue this clip seemed to play a portion with kickoff conscionable much than 60 hours aft Virgil van Dijk’s stoppage-time victor against Atletico connected Wednesday.

Everton had a lifeline conscionable earlier the hr people erstwhile Grealish’s heavy transverse was turned backmost into the way of Gueye, who blasted his past Alisson Becker.

Slot turned to Wirtz and Isak disconnected the seat to effort and wrestle backmost power to small effect.

Liverpool, though, did negociate to spot retired a nervy finale to inflict an unwanted grounds connected Everton brag David Moyes.

The Scot has present failed to triumph successful 23 trips to Anfield arsenic a visiting coach, the astir immoderate Premier League manager has played astatine a stadium without victory.