Below is a summary of the full article. Click here for the full version or go back to LFC Live.net
And somewhere, hidden behind the thick Blue weeds of 40,000 Everton fans crooning along to Elton John, as Goodison Park took in its final moments of the Merseyside derby, was Liverpool extending their Premier League advantage at the top to seven points.
“It felt like a loss,” admitted one Reds player in the bowels of the Goodison tunnel.
It could, in time, hold them in good stead as they hone in on league title No.20.
The measure of hope that this will inspire in North London as Mikel Arteta plots a way back to the summit without his first-choice Arsenal attack for the foreseeable future remains to be seen, but the neutrals might at least thank James Tarkowski for lashing home the most dramatic of stoppage-time levellers to keep alive some semblance of a Premier League title race.
On Liverpool's most recent visit here, back in April, a 2-0 defeat was soundtracked by the home fans informing their visitors, with understandable relish, that they had just "lost the league at Goodison Park".
The Reds were dragged into the sort of dogfight Everton relished and the whistle-happy Oliver struggled to let the match flow.
You'll Never Walk Alone briefly rang around Goodison in stoppage time before it was drowned out by deafening boos and it appeared as though Slot's side were taking a major stride towards their overriding ambitions for the campaign in the sweetest way possible.
That was, of course, until Tarkowski's intervention in the 98th minute, which was awarded after what felt like an interminable wait to check first for an offside and then a push on Ibrahima Konate
As a result of the red cards, the post-match press conference was a non-event, with neither Slot nor Hulshoff permitted to undertake media duties due to Premier League rules
For more news relating to Everton, visit our sister site EFC Live.
![[Valid RSS]](../valid-rss.png "Validate my RSS feed")