Liverpool vs Everton is not only the game between Klopp and Ancelotti, which is already unmissable. It is a cross that will mark the ambitions of the first in the Premier League and the real options of the second to return to European competitions, the main goal of the entire season.
For this reason, and because no derbies are played but won, Saturday’s game (12.30 pm) fits in the “not to be missed” category at every corner.
Liverpool can no longer afford luxury: it has already failed against Manchester City, against Leicester and against Manchester United. It seems he has stepped aside in the battle for the Premier title and now the priority, who would believe it, is not to leave the current dishonorable sixth place to fight for one of the four seats in the Champions League.
The cross remains the injury victims of Fabinho, James Milner Diogo Jota, Joel Matip, Joe Gomez and Virgil van Dijk, with which improvisations remain an obligation and not a choice for Klopp.
Fortune at the time smiles at Carlo Ancelotti, who will, yes, lose Gbamin and Yerry Mina, the latter for a period of three to four weeks, but will recover nothing less than Dominic Calvert-Lewin and the overall midfielder, Brazil’s Allan. Knowing that balance returns is necessarily an illusion for the ‘toffee’, which comes from defeats against Fulham (0.2) and Manchester City (1-3) and must now win to move from the seventh square of the table to the zone of Europe to climb. classification.
There is also a good feeling with James Rodríguez, who, according to Ancelotti’s words, is “good, happy and motivated” and will have the obligation to pull the strings to hurt an Everton who, perhaps for the only time , does not arrive. so untouchable.
Likely lineups
Liverpool: Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Kabak, Henderson, Robertson; Thiago, Wijnaldum, Jones; Wrong, Firmino, Mane
Everton: Pickford; Coleman, Holgate, Keane, Digne; Doucoure, Allan; Rodriguez, Sigurdsson, Richarlison; Calvert-Lewin
Time: 12:30 pm Colombian time