It may not seem much to get angry about but that team stood a reasonable chance of going an entire league season unbeaten, 16 years before Arsenal's "Invincibles" managed it.Īlthough they'd won the league the season before, hampering Liverpool was all Everton had to "achieve" that year once Kenny Dalglish's men raced away with the title. You have to go all the way back to 1988 when the Blues won 1-0 in Liverpool's 30th league game of the season after the previous 29 were won or drawn. Other omens aren't great for Liverpool, since Everton once before stopped a long unbeaten run of theirs. It's a record he'd like to improve, even if it's only to stay in it a little while longer than usual. Jurgen Klopp's record in the main English cup is dreadful, having struggled via replays to vanquish Exeter and Plymouth before falling in both his fourth round ties to West Ham and Wolves. Then again, such fierce rivalries rarely have any logic in them. Liverpool fans may slyly proclaim through song that Everton haven't won a trophy in 22 years but their own solitary League Cup success during the last 11 seasons hardly gives them the right to crow much. That makes it no less important to the locals, obviously. Those days are gone and although both clubs are in the Premier League top 10 the fixture doesn't have the same feeling of a giants' battle it once did. The Reds did win it, 3-1, on a day some older fans still regard as their finest ever supporting Liverpool. The final became a chance for Everton to sabotage a Double which Liverpool had never achieved despite over a decade of dominance in the English game. Both clubs were at the peak of their powers, having fought a long and exciting battle for the league title - which Liverpool eventually edged by two points. The biggest FA Cup clash in 125 years of rivalry must surely have been the final in 1986.
That makes Friday a daunting prospect, even for a club that hasn't lost for 74 days. If it's in the latter stages of a competition, the Reds will emerge triumphant while in the earlier rounds Everton usually come out on top. Some may even claim that 2-0 loss doesn't count as Liverpool were being managed by Roy Hodgson - they were hazy months that most supporters like to pretend never happened, but sadly the statisticians don't see it that way.Īlthough rare, cup clashes between the two clubs are usually memorable and follow a fairly consistent pattern. They don't just have an unbeaten run to preserve that began after a 4-1 defeat at Tottenham, they have an undefeated record against the Blues stretching back to September 2010.
Liverpool have a lot to lose when they face Everton in the FA Cup third round on Friday.
Plenty on the line for Liverpool in FA Cup clash against Everton
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