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Everton 2 Liverpool 2 – VAR plays spoilsport for Liverpool as Everton hold them to a draw.
2020-21 English Premier League match report – Goodison Park – Saturday, October 17, 2020
Everton 2 Liverpool 2 Match Report
Everton survived what would have been their first Premier league defeat of the season when a last-gasp goal by Jordan Henderson was dramatically disallowed by VAR.
Controversy plagued the game earlier when VAR chose not to review a rough tackle by Everton goalie on Virgil Van Djik that left the Liverpool injured.
Jurgen Klopp in an effort to make amends for the 2-7 thrashing at Villa Park a fortnight ago, made four changes and was immediately rewarded by an early goal.
Sadio Mane who missed the Aston Villa - Football betting liverpool 2 0 aston villa sadio mane curtis jones score as reds extend home winning run game for having tested positive finished off a Andrew Robertson cut-back high into the net in the 3rd minute.
Pickford was lucky to have survived with a single card as he crashed into Van Djik a little latter but the Liverpool back was flagged offside before the goalkeeper’s challenge.
Van Djik was forced to leave the field limping with Joe Gomez - Football betting england fans wrong to boo joe gomez says raheem sterling coming in to replace him. The hosts responded quickly by way of a brilliantly executed header by Michael Keane - Football betting norwich 0 1 everton michael keane scores winner for toffees from a James Rodriguez corner.
In a lively first half, Liverpool looked the more threatening side.
Pickford was the saviour for the hosts as he pared away a vicious Trent Alexander-Arnold - Football betting england have to concede fewer goals trent alexander arnold free-kick heading for the top corner.
Everton were dealt a blow after 30 minutes as captain Seamus Coleman suffered a recurrence of his hamstring injury and was replaced by Ben Godfrey for his Everton debut.
New Liverpool signing from Bayern Munich Thiago Alcantara - Football betting liverpool thiago alcantara says goodbye to bayern munich returned from a coronvirus attack and was brilliant in the midfield orchestrating most of the potent moves as the Reds went ahead in the second half.
Mohamed Salah - Football betting mohamed salah visits young fan who ran into lamp post while chasing his car volleyed in Yerry Mina’s poor clearance to put the visitors in the lead in the 72nd minute, firing his shot to into the bottom corner.
The Reds could have gone ahead a little later when Joel Matip - Football betting joel matip liverpool defender was one of jurgen klopps best pieces of business rose to meet Alexander-Arnold’s corner but a brilliant one-handed save from Pickford saved the day for the hosts.
Liverpool mounted pressure as Salah’s crisp strike from a distance swerved and forced the Everton keeper to effect another good save.
The prolific Dominic Calvert-Lewin who was relatively quiet for most of the game, came to life in the 80th minute, leaping high to a Lucas Digne - Football betting brighton 3 2 everton lucas digne scores late own goal to hand win to seagulls cross and heading in to restore parity for his side.
Calvert-Lewin became the first Evertonian to score in the first five league games - Score predictor football since Tommy Lawton in 1938-39.
Everton were then reduced to 10 men with seven minutes of injury time still to go when Richarlison was sent off for a wild challenge on Thiago.
Liverpool thought they had won during stoppage time when Jordan Henderson’s shot beat Pickford from close range but Mane was adjudged to be offside by a hair’s breadth after a lengthy wait for the VAR decision - Wiki Video_assistant_referee.
Everton may still not have beaten their Merseyside rivals in a decade and survived a dubious VAR scare but Carlo Ancelotti’s men will take great heart from the manner in which they fought back twice to force a draw at Goodison Park.
Klopp on the other hand will hope Van Dijk’s - Football betting football gossip neymar mustafi van dijk sanchez dybala pjanic injury is not serious as it looks. But the manner in which Leeds United troubled them on the opening weekend followed by the Villa drubbing, there could be a belief in opponents that Liverpool could be humbled.
Everton staring XI: Pickford, Coleman, Mina, Keane, Digne, Doucoure, Allan, Andre Gomes - Football betting everton 1 1 tottenham andre gomes injury overshadows everton draw, Rodriguez, Calvert-Lewin, Richarlison.
Subs: Iwobi, Godfrey, Sigurdsson.
Liverpool starting XI: Adrian, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, van Dijk, Robertson, Henderson, Fabinho, Thiago, Salah, Firmino, Mane.
Subs: Wijnaldum, Gomez, Jota.
