Everton 0-0 Liverpool: Premier League highlights and recap

Everton and Liverpool drew 0-0 at Goodison Park on Saturday, April 7. Here are all the highlights from the Premier League match.

Liverpool and Everton played out a scrappy 0-0 draw at Goodison Park on Saturday, a match that was played very much in the shadow of the Reds’ upcoming Champions League quarterfinal second leg against Manchester City.

Jurgen Klopp named a heavily rotated side — Dominic Solanke, Danny Ings, Nathaniel Clyne and Ragnar Klavan all made rare starts — and the match, especially in the first half, lacked the intensity you’d expect from a Merseyside derby.

Sadio Mane was the only member of the Reds’ lethal attacking trident to start the match, and he was probably their most dangerous attacking player, testing Jordan Pickford with a curling effort in the first half, but he was still nowhere near his best.

Everton, meanwhile, were flat throughout, defending deeper than they probably had to given the side Liverpool put out. Yannick Bolasie spent much of the match acting as an auxiliary left-back, but he forced the best save of the match with a wonderful shot that Loris Karius tipped around the post in the 23rd minute.

Everton improved in the last half hour, and had an excellent chance to take all three points in the 87th minute, Cenk Tosun heading just wide after getting on the end of Theo Walcott’s cross. The chance seemed to galvanize the Toffees, who dominated the final few minutes, but they were unable to make the breakthrough.

Still, the defining feature of the match was the lack of execution from both sides. Liverpool pegged Everton in their own half for long stretches, but rarely looked like breaking the hosts down. To no one’s great surprise, Solanke and Ings didn’t prove to be the creative threats Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah typically are.

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Highlights

Liverpool stay third with the point, but could fall below Tottenham if Tottenham beat Southampton by more than a four-goal margin later in the day. Everton remain ninth, four points ahead of 10th-place Bournemouth. The draw also means the Toffees haven’t beaten their city rivals in 17 tries, dating back to 2010.