Liverpool vs Everton: Premier League Match Preview, Predicted Line-ups, and Fantasy XI

Liverpool vs Everton is next as Jurgen Klopp must rally his dejected troops once again when Liverpool host an Everton side buoyed by the arrival on Sean Dyche in the Merseyside derby on Monday night.

Match Details:

• Location: Liverpool, England
• Stadium: Anfield
• Date: Monday 13 February
• Kick-off Time: 20:00 GMT / 15:00 EST / 12:00 PST
• Referee: Simon Hooper
• VAR: John Brooks

Liverpool vs Everton: Match Preview

Liverpool host Everton in the Premier League on Monday night and they will be desperate to get their season back on track with a victory in the Merseyside Derby.

The Reds are in atrocious form coming into this game and they have failed to win their last four league matches.

Jurgen Klopp's men are currently 10^th in the league table and they are 12 points adrift of a top-four place.

Missing out on the Champions League will be a catastrophic blow for the Reds and it remains to be seen whether they can close the gap with the top-four rivals in the coming weeks.

Meanwhile, Everton are 18^th in the league table and only Southampton have picked up fewer points than them in the league.

They are in real danger of going down this season and Sean Dyche will be hoping to pull off a moral-boosting result at Anfield on Monday. The newly appointed Everton manager helped his side grind out a massive win over Arsenal in their last league game and it remains to be seen whether Everton can pull off another upset here.

Team News:

Liverpool:

Liverpool have been hit by a raft of injuries to key players in recent weeks. Klopp is hopeful Diogo Jota can return on Monday night, though Roberto Firmino and Arthur Melo are unlikely to make the squad.

Virgil van Dijk, Ibrahima Konate and Luis Diaz remain sidelined, while Fabinho missed the loss at Wolves due to illness and could return. Thiago has a hip problem and may not feature.

Everton:

Toffees manager Dyche will be desperate to field the same team that beat Arsenal 1-0 with a brilliantly organised performance. However, there are again doubts over Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who picked up a hamstring problem in that victory.

The England striker will have to be assessed before the game and could be replaced in the starting XI by Neal Maupay. James Garner, Andros Townsend and Nathan Patterson are all out, but Michael Keane could return to the squad.

Liverpool vs Everton: Head to Head:

Liverpool have a good historical record in the Merseyside derby and have won 123 out of the 292 matches played between the two teams, as opposed to Everton's 83 victories.

Liverpool have lost only one of their last 22 home games against Everton in the Premier League, with their previous such defeat coming in February 2021.

The reverse fixture produced a 0-0 stalemate - the 12th in the history of the Merseyside derby, setting a record for this scoreline in Premier League history.

This is the eighth match played between Liverpool and Everton on a Monday in the Premier League - Everton are unbeaten in their last three such matches at Anfield.

Predicted Line-ups:

Liverpool starting XI (4-3-3): Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Gomez, Robertson; Henderson, Bajcetic, Keita; Salah, Nunez, Gakpo.

Everton starting XI (4-5-1): Pickford; Coleman, Coady, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; McNeil, Doucoure, Gueye, Onana, Iwobi; Calvert-Lewin.

LIV vs EVE: Fantasy XI

Alisson; Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Coady, Tarkowski, Doucoure, Onana, Salah, Nunez, Gakpo, Calvert-Lewin.