Everton are in proud possession of the Premier League bragging rights on Merseyside right now. Sitting a point ahead in the table, despite losing the league derbies, 2-0 and 3-0, home and away respectively.
But league form will count for nothing in what is sure to be a high-octane encounter with Liverpool in Saturday’s FA Cup semi-final at Wembley. A feature of the once ‘Friendly Derby’ has been the number of red cards in the clashes since the inception of the Premier League. The tie has seen more red cards than any other game (20, although the last was rescinded).
When these sides last met in the FA Cup in 2008/09 season, the tie ended 1-1 with Everton winning the replay 1-0 a week later thanks to a Dan Gosling’s winner in extra-time.
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Everton have beaten Liverpool seven times in FA Cups clashes. The Reds have won nine times and the game has been drawn on six occasions.
Paddy Power make Kenny Dalglish’s side slight favourites at 6/4 to win in 90 minutes, Everton are 15/8. The draw is an appealing 9/4 given the high stakes in what is likely to be a tense, cagey affair in the opening stages at least.
Everton will no doubt try to capitalise on Liverpool’s goalkeeping crisis with Peter Gulacsi, who has never made a first-team appearance, recalled from a loan spell at Hull, as back-up to back-up Brad Jones, after José Reina’s red card against Blackburn last Tuesday.
February 20, 1991, went down in the annals of Everton’s history after an epic 4–4 FA Cup replay saw the Toffees come from behind four times to force a second replay.
Liverpool´s manager at that time, one Mr Kenny Dalglish subsequently resigned, while Everton went on to win the second replay a week later.
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