{"id":438712,"date":"2025-09-20T14:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438712\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T14:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T14:24:14","slug":"liverpool-score-twice-in-the-first-half-to-overcome-everton-in-the-merseyside-derby-at-anfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/438712\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool score twice in the first half to overcome Everton in the Merseyside derby at Anfield."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool continued their relentless winning form with this Merseyside derby win &#8211; and once again the signs were ominous for those hoping to take the Premier League title away from Anfield.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arne Slot&#8217;s champions did not sparkle but got the job done, and did it without Wirtz and Isak in their starting line-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In their place was a duo who have been outstanding in the opening weeks of the season, and they stepped up to punish Everton in an early phase of Liverpool domination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Gravenberch has been in magnificent form, continuing his excellence with a finish of quality and technique to beat the diving Pickford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ekitike added the second from Gravenberch&#8217;s pass to demonstrate what he offers in the central striking role, irrespective of the arrival of British record signing Isak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ekitike is a natural finisher, and while Slot has suggested he could play off the left-flank, the \u00a370m signing from Eintracht Frankfurt is making a powerful case to be used through the centre on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liverpool, as is their habit, made hard work of the second half as Everton improved, but once more they closed out the win to keep their place at the top of the table.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool continued their relentless winning form with this Merseyside derby win &#8211; and once again the signs were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-438712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115237084576533794","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}