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Neil Atkinson’s post-match review for The Anfield Wrap after Everton 2 Liverpool 0 in the 2023-2024 Premier League season at Goodison Park…
 
LIVERPOOL get what they deserve. And so do Everton.
This is your beginning, middle and end. The better side on the night wins and that’s not so much a punch you have to roll with but a series of blows you have to take.
It’s an atrocious performance. That said, we can be grown up enough to give the Blue Brethren some credit.
I like their manager. Others don’t and that is fair enough but I think he is more than capable of having a plan that his players can execute well. I think he thinks through games well from start to finish and he finds moments for his team to flourish. Sean Dyche has players. The centre halves are excellent. A partnership to die for. Dwight McNeil is bright as a button; I like him an awful lot. Abdoulaye Doucoure is a good player and has long been so.
Today, Liverpool play into their strengths, into their plans, and that is the most frustrating part. They play the game on Everton’s terms. This is the error, this is the core shortcoming – it is Everton’s game and therefore Everton’s win.
Some places you go to, you have to swallow it being on their terms. But not here, not today, not Goodison Park. Everton are a tidy side, but they aren’t good enough to...