"The man for the big occasion" | Liverpool edge past Everton | The Final Whistle
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What were the highlights of the Merseyside derby between Liverpool and Everton?
Football on Off the Ball. So Alex Ferguson was the master of that, of taking pressure off his players, casting it onto referees, the opposition, us in the media were responsible at times, you know, the kit manufacturer, I mean all sorts, you know, anyone but he's the players. That's what the best managers do, they're lightning conductors for criticism and pressure so they take it off their players and Pep's brilliant at that.
Join in the obsession. Subscribe now at offtheball.com forward slash join. Well Eoin, late drama. There was late drama in the last derby at Goodison Park. Late drama in the first derby at the Hill Dickinson. This time though, it's a player in red that scores the goal.
Yeah and I don't even know if they deserved it. It was a bit of a weird game. It was a great game. Proper derby feel to it. I think he kind of, I was having a laugh with you before the match. You were saying the referee always lets things go and he did. He did. He let loads go today which was really good to see because it kept the momentum. It kept the high energy out there between the two teams. And yeah, in that second half, you probably have to say that Everton were the ones that were the more attacking threat throughout the game, or throughout that second half anyway, at least. But Liverpool, to be fair to them, just held off. Obviously, listen, their superstar this year has been Zabislay. And when that ball came to him on the edge of the box, he has a shot, gets deflected, Jacob Bruyn's in a good position for it, comes off, comes out from the corner kick.
And then for the winner, they've done the exact same corner all game. They're trying to get bodies around Pickford. They find that he's the weakness when it comes to these corners. And this time it pays off, right at the death and Van Dijk heads it home for the winner.
Yeah, just like he did in his debut for Liverpool.
How did the refereeing impact the flow of the match?
The in-swinger, it's funny that for so many years under Jurgen Klopp, it was the other way around where Alexander-Arnold would swing them out and Andy Robertson would be on the other side swinging them out. But we've seen a change with Salah taking the in-swingers and Sobislai. Liverpool have obviously been weak themselves
defending set pieces but in the last few months they've started scoring more goals than set pieces and it just shows like how priceless they can be oh massive yeah set pieces listen this premier league season we've all seen the value of uh set pieces and how much they're worked on look at arsenal could potentially go on to win a title by just winning loads of games through um doing well at set pieces But the difference between the outswinger and the inswinger, especially in them times or in previous times, the Liverpools, obviously back then I think the likes of Canate and Van Dijk were much more aggressive at getting away from their markers and getting in amongst it. But when you have an inswinger, you can kind of just put it into an area and hope you just get a flick.
And if you're the more physical one, you don't have to do as much running as such to get away from someone to get a head on. You just need to get an arm out and just be able to flick it on. That's exactly what Van Dijk done there. It's just put into an unbelievable area. Pickford, maybe he could have came and punched it. It's hard to really know. There's so many bodies in the area. But he definitely gets over Tarkovsky anyway. He looked like he was concentrating on Van Dijk more than the ball itself. But because it's that in-swinger, all Van Dijk had to do was just get a flick on it and direct it towards the goal. If it had been an out-swinger, you kind of have to have a shot with your head more so and try to direct it towards the goal.
But yeah, that's the difference between the two of them. Listen, it's paid off for them brilliantly there. But it was an excellent game. From minute one, it was such a quick start to the match and it never let off at all.
Yeah, and I suppose when Beto equalises for Everton, you're kind of thinking they might go on and win it.
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