Liverpool will seek to bounce back after the weekend defeat at Plymouth Argyle and extend his advance at the top of the first nine points with a victory in the last Merseyside derby to play with Goodison Park.
The boss of the Reds, Arne Slot, brought a host of changes to the match at home park and he turned against the wrestlers of the Argyle championship won 1-0 to end the hope of Liverpool of a quadruple.
Dutch seeks an answer against their local rivals.
He said: “Losing Plymouth is of course not acceptable. As a team – and I think our fans – we are disappointed with this result.
“We have to show a different side of us tomorrow because it was not only the result, the performance was far from what the Liverpool standards are also.”
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Slot knows that the atmosphere will be warm white with the desperate blues to sign to Goodison with a victory and the hopes of the title of Dent Liverpool.
He added: “You must be mentally strong as a team outside. When you have the ball, you must be as calm as possible, but it is not the first time for these players that they have played in atmospheres like this, so I hope they can focus on this that they must do.
“I suppose that our players are ready for another battle tomorrow for the simple reason that they have been ready for the whole season and many of them are experienced in this equality.”
The return of David Moyes to Everton has the ship the ship and the relegation now appears a distant threat with three successive victories of the championship by moving the tuffes to nine points above the fall area.
They also suffered a disappointment from the FA Cup this weekend, however, losing 2-0 against Bournemouth after a disjointed display.
News from the Liverpool Everton team against Liverpool
The left back Everton Vitalii Mykolenko is back in training and could be considered for a reminder. The new signature Carlos Alcaraz is in the running to make its first departure after having impressed the bench against Bournemouth impressively.
Nathan Patterson is unlikely to be in shape while Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Seamus Coleman and Dwight McNeil were all released for a while.
Slot will remember his big guns after giving them the weekend. Virgil van Dijk and Mohamed Salah’s tastes will return with the rest of the first regular Liverpool teams.
Joe Gomez was excluded after drinking in Plymouth, but Trent Alexander-Arnold could come back.
