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The Blues take their nine-game unbeaten run to Anfield to take on their table-topping neighbours Liverpool (8pm kick-off).

The home of their biggest rivals has not been a happy hunting ground for Everton or their returning manager David Moyes.

He was brilliant in the first game and also caused problems off the bench here last season.

My team (4-5-1): Pickford, O'Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Lindstrom, Gueye, Alcaraz, Doucoure, Harrison; Beto.

Chris Beesley

After 131 years of combat against Liverpool, Everton will ‘cross Stanley Park’ for the final time tonight in the last derby before they decamp from L4 to their magnificent new stadium on the Mersey waterfront.

In the build-up to this historic fixture, Blues boss David Moyes was reminded that for all the relative successes of his first Goodison Park reign, when he steered the club to nine top-eight finishes, including a best-ever Premier League position of fourth in 2004/05, he has yet to taste victory at Anfield.

That’s not to say that the Glaswegian – who changed the city’s football lexicon forever on day one in his job first time around by dubbing Everton 'The People’s Club' – hasn’t been able to prove a thorn in the side of their more successful neighbours, though

It was after one particularly resolute display in 2007 when the Blues, who had triumphed 3-0 in the reverse fixture earlier that season, earned a goalless draw, that Rafael Benitez petulantly branded them a “small club.”

If Moyes is to end his trail of tears at Anfield though, perhaps Iliman Ndiaye, Everton’s magic man who left the last Merseyside derby crying, could prove the inspiration

Although the Blues snatched a deserved draw in dramatic circumstances with their last kick of the game in that fixture through captain James Tarkowski’s thunderbolt, they’ve been without Ndiaye ever since due to the Senegal international having suffered a knee injury.

Stripped of most of their creativity, Moyes’ men have nevertheless battled on to win 2-1 at Crystal Palace before recording four consecutive draws to extend their unbeaten run in the Premier League to nine matches

but having Ndiaye back can give Everton the X-Factor and enable him to showcase his talents in a manner he was denied six weeks ago, especially given that I’m going to toss in a googly by starting him on the right.

I know that Carlos Alcaraz flattered to deceive when being picked on the left against West Ham United, but I reckon the Argentinian offers a bit more derby bite that Jack Harrison and having him and Ndiaye on opposite flanks could give the Reds something to think about.

My team (4-2-3-1): Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Gueye, Garner; Ndiaye, Doucoure, Alcaraz; Beto.


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