One Small Step For Liverpool As Goodison Derby Delivers A Familiar Story

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Yes, they dropped points in the Premier League for just the third time this season, but Liverpool always draw at Everton. It's seven times in the last eight meetings in the competition now that the Goodison game has ended in stalemate.바카라 웹사이트

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Klopp's Reds, whose lead over Manchester City has been clipped slightly to 23 points and could drop to 20바카라 웹사이트when Pep Guardiola's men face바카라 웹사이트Burnley바카라 웹사이트on Monday, ought to have nothing to worry about.바카라 웹사이트

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But unusually this was tepid, akin to pre-season fodder, one to chalk off probably as a settler for the rest of the games that will rush by over the next five weeks.바카라 웹사이트

The coronavirus effect on football has inevitably cast a dampener on Liverpool's special campaign, and empty seats at the home of their rivals were a sorry sight.바카라 웹사이트

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Roberto바카라 웹사이트Firmino바카라 웹사이트burst forward and drove his shot wide, Trent Alexander-Arnold went for goal with a free-kick from 35 yards that could have embarrassed Jordan바카라 웹사이트Pickford, and then Liverpool lost James Milner to an apparent hamstring problem, a dose of first-day-back-at-school glumness for the midfielder and Klopp.바카라 웹사이트

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Alisson made the save but the ball still reached Davies at the far post, the 21-year-old seeing derby glory before him but sending his shot against the foot of the left post.바카라 웹사이트

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