Horrible Pickford error gifts Liverpool in last minute

It’s been far far too long since the Kop net bulged after Kevin Campbell’s winner and it’s high time that a new blue hero emerged in the modern era.

Are we seeing a different Everton performance at anfield in the 21st century, or what?

Silva has been true to his word: we will play OUR game, whoever the opposition.

I loved early on how the red-tinged commentators, Carragher and Redknapp, were counselling 'Ohhh... Everton shouldn't be playing out from the back like this in the first 15 minutes of a Mersey derby...'

Der, dunderheads! It is a deliberate tactic to invite teams on to us for us to bypass their oncharging forwards and midfields to create space and chances for us in the opposition half.

Yes, we lived dangerously at times, but the 'poo are reknowned for being fast out of the blocks, but we comfortably weathered that storm.

With their midweek game against PSG kicking in more and more as the game progresses, we are well, WELL in this game.

Mina should have scored with his early header. Alison has kept his team in it with his saves from Gomes and Walcott.

Nobody is playing badly, just unfortunate slips at critical times.

And...is Gomes THE man, or what?

NO! NO! NO!

Unbelievable. I feel like crying.

I asked the question on here the first time we threw an extra centre-back on. I was told it was a very strategic move.

He's done it three times in recent weeks. At some point, we would concede doing it.

Do we still defend the most basic thinking possible?

That aside, a very good performance and we thoroughly deserved a point or more.

Ernie, it's worked well in recent weeks and had nothing to do with us conceding that freak goal.

I actually feel better after that than I did with the draw last season. We matched them, and they know it.

Doesn't matter now how we played, we got beat again, as usual. What do we get to brag about? How well we played, but what was the score? Oh, we lost again. Now I have to replace the shit I've smashed in frustration.

Absolute Joke... but, as soon as Gana started fucking around feigning injury, I knew the time extra would go on and we would pay. Fucking shithouses again.

Regardless of the manager or the players we have, we never fail to disappoint in derby games. Any other team would of been 2 up at half time but not Everton. Let Man Utd have Pickford if they want him — he is a liability.

The same old faces let us down every time. No referee to blame this time. Walcott, Gana, Pickford — simply not good enough. Another clear-out in January is needed. Pickford should be dropped — the fucking smart arse has just ruined Christmas for Evertonians everywhere. We should just concede derby game points instead of embarrassing ourselves every season.

Well done, Jordan, the idiots who follow the National side might like you but you are now a Merseyside legend for all the wrong reasons, you Dope!!!

Match after match, game management, and especially sub management is appalling. We now have the players, they're just not being used correctly. Bernard on far too long. Maybe Davies and Calvert-Lewin on to stem the tide.

We should have started with a centre-forward today, and 95% of us said Lookman should start.

Mike Gaynes, so sorry for you. That was as bad as it can ever be. Pickford has had this in him for some time.

We needed fresh legs in midfield. Gomes had a great game but got tired.

Sickened to the stomach!

Maybe he should have caught it in his big mouth.

Yes, Pickford made an error but he didn't look nervy today and his kicking was fine, he also made a brilliant save as well.

As for Gobshite Carragher's comments – no, he's not an erratic keeper, he's a very good one... better than that Allison bloke. This is why I never normally have the sound on during the match when we're on Sky.

I thought we did really well today and certainly deserved a point from the game. As per usual, the Red Shite got lucky.

Always an embrrassment. Always.

Roll on January and the Third Round.

No judgement, no reading of the situation. You are a shorter version of Joe Hart with very slightly better reactions to compensate for your lack of common sense.

Gutted... but still lots to be optimistic and proud of, the best Everton performance in a derby for some time and at Mordor for a very long time. We have shown once again that we can match the best teams in the league. It is very early days and it will come.

After that error by Pickford, I'd drop the lad for a few weeks. That nonsense is totally unacceptable at this level.

The boys worked their balls off for 96 minutes for him to do a schoolboy error. He believes his hype because he has saved a couple of penalties and he is England goalkeeper... absolutely pissed if with him.

We played very well but that doesn't matter at the moment.

Life just plain sucks

Pickford is no Martyn or Southall. He's gifted them two Anfield wins in 2018.

There are positives but it doesn't feel like it. I just KNEW they'd score from that free kick.

OK that makes 1 point from a possible 12 against the top teams. Two to go: Spurs and Man City. Prediction now, 1 point from a possible 18.

Groundhog Day.

Even if we won our next two matches 8-0, it still wouldn't make up for the fact that, yet again, another Merseyside derby has passed and they haven't scored at Anfield, another game against a top six side has passed us by.

No matter how positive I've been feeling about the small steps made this season, and beating the teams that really we should be beating given the money spent, this result has ruined our Christmas as Evertonians yet again and no result between now and then will make up for it. Man City I hope will beat us in two weeks time to keep these Red bastards at arm's length.

Pickford needs to go and have a good word with himself because that's two trips to Anfield this year that he's cocked up late on for us and yet again we let that invisible man-carthorse, Origi, score in a derby for an unbelievable third time and he's hardly kicked a ball for them.

Everton Football Club could spend any amount of money it wants but the same things will always happen, it's just this club and what it stands for.

The goalie has a penchant for the moment. Diving under it, over it or just keeping the ball alive. It used to be known as showboating. Then his action led to the inevitable.

I feel for the Blues fans right now, outside that shitehouse stadium, surrounded by shitehouse supporters, gloating.

We played well. Gomes was Man of the Match. A world-class player. Hopefully we'll have better luck at Goodison Park. But we have nothing to be ashamed of. We gave them a game and that's all I ask.

How can anyone explain what happens there? Ref was good, most of the team were good. Deserved a draw and yet a goalie practically throws one in his own net.

It only ever happens in derbies. Too long in the tooth to be surprised by it.

I wonder how we will contrive to throw the game away at Goodison Park.

I was nervous pre-match but felt quite comfortable for a lot of the game, only to have my heart ripped out (even though it was over the bar) and put through the mincer once again!

Once again, football is dead to me until next game.

However, for all those so-called true blues to pile in on Pickford is appalling. Yes, a howler, but magnified horribly by the timing and the circumstances. Up until then, and apart from a couple of dodgy kicks, he had been a central part of a team who didn't deserve to lose.

Horrible shit happens to us and to individuals. Spare a thought for how he must be feeling knowing that one horrible misjudgement has destroyed the elation we would have had following such a positive and encouraging performance.

Nobody moaning venomously at Gomes for missing an absolute sitter.

We deserved at least a draw, no fear factor, matched them for 90 mins...

Gutting... but important to get six points in the next two games. As for the RS... fuck them!

Frankly, I think he is a good shot-stopper but a Sprake-like flounderer with a howler up his sleeve any time. Lineker would get a hat-trick against him every other Saturday.

We lost 1-0 to an absolute fuck-up from a goalie who was indeed not 100% all game.

To those who think we have to move on and learn by his. Well, you go in the pubs tonight and walk around town next week and listen to all the crap from the Orcs.

Same shit, different year.

When it comes to the top six, we still can't lay a glove on any of them in terms of scoring goals and we look pretty impotent outside of Sigurdsson and Richarlison and neither of those are 18-goal players.

Nothing comes from out wide and nothing comes from the bench.

Incidents like that make you think about match-fixing because why else would a goalkeeper do such a ridiculous thing? — And especially when he wasn't under pressure from any Liverpool player? It's just pure madness.

Utter shite! Don't defend the indefensible (typical Evertonia trait)

Going to be a real test for the young players and for Silva.

RIght now, I'm going to try to forget today ever happened and concentrate on sticking pins in this Klopp doll I've just made. What a massive fucking bellend that cunt is.

Silva talking now on TV and he talks well. We still need a striker as Richarlison is not the answer and needs to be played in a different role to be effective.

And as for "This is a team for the future and growing and will get better and be like them in a few years" — what a load of rubbish. If we are hanging our hopes on that, then we truly are screwed. Until the team does the business on the pitch, we are just all talk and full of hot air.

Everton just never change, turn off those blue lights shining on the Liver Building... it's just embarrassing thinking that it is rubbing the RS noses in it when we can't beat them year upon year.

Like others have said, we must have a gypsie's curse on us at that ground; no-one can have that much good fortune, season after season.

Now that is out of the way, the positives: we are still 6th, we turned up and took the game to them, Klopp has been there a number of years and won nothing. He is building a team that has blown other teams away; that did not happen today.

We cannot expect Silva and the team to do so much in less than half a season. We are getting there, no question about that, a couple more windows to allow Silva and Brands to build the team they want and we will be up there.

Very pissed off with that goal but come to expect it there, no matter how well we play, Lady Luck or a bad mistake shafts us year on year, that's two goals now Pickford has gifted them in the final minute.

However, I saw enough today to be very optimistic in the coming months, hopefully a centre-forward added in January.

Chin up, Blues, onwards and upwards.

I'm wondering if we ever win at Anfield again in my lifetime. FFS, I was still in my 20s last time... now I'm bloody 49, arrggh!!!

We played without fear. Without inferiority. We matched them for most of the game and were undone by a freak goal.

Very disappointing of course but I saw enough to say that the gaping gulf between these teams over the last 5 years is on its way to being closed. I’d rather we finish above them in the league than win the derby and for the first time in a long time I believe such an eventuality could be in sight.

Also, why did Zouma just stop and let Origi follow up that final attempt completely unmarked. I can't understand these basic errors at this level.

Take a good look at yourself, Jordan, because you gifted the RS a victory they never deserved on home soil.

I really can't articulate how much I hate that Club.

Gomes was class, but his legs were gone with 10 mins left. Silva should have brought on Davies. Sickened.

It might sound stupid but let's be honest we will finish 7th because we are good enough to beat teams below 7th but can't even come close to beating a top 6 side and that's the difference these days to why we can't finish higher.

January 2017, the last time we beat a top 6 side. Blame Pickford for today but that's becoming an embarrassing record in its own right.

I'll believe in this new Everton when we get a win at one of these grounds.

If they can't create magic for them to score don't worry cause we will throw it in for them. Cursed we are.

Not looking forward to work tomorrow. It's just never going to be, is it? Remember the Westerveld bizarre ending which didn't go our way?

I knew that free-kick was going to end in our net today because that's what happens. I hoped we'd get a flag for a goal kick and it was somehow behind but it just sums up being an Evertonian. It's the hope that kills you.

Here, we gave pretty much as good as we got and were let down by an absolute aberration from Pickford. God only knows what he was thinking, maybe to prevent a corner?

We are a much better team than last season, that was very apparent in this match. To me, that is important.

Congratulations to Andre Gomes. Another class performance. If only he has miscued his header a bit, we would have gone ahead.

Souness claims the ball from Van Dijk's miscued shot was coming back in play anyway. I don't think so. I think the touch from Jordan took the pace off the ball causing it to take on more backspin and drop onto the bar and back in. They are such lucky bastards. Jordan won't sleep tonight, but the only remedy is to put Newcastle to the sword on Wednesday. COYB.

Why didn't Ogiri have a heart attack? Why, why, why? Zouma had been on the pitch a few minutes. I can't understand your very basic thinking. The players are not robots.

Jordan Pickford is a fantastic keeper, we are lucky to have him. Every keeper makes mistakes, he will learn from it I'm sure.

There is no reason why we cannot finish in the top six this season. No-one will relish coming to Goodison and perhaps we can spring a surprise at Man City and Spurs.

Silva's substitutions were awful. Both the personnel and the timing. Me and my son were calling for Calvert-Lewin on 71 minutes. Bringing Zouma on showed negative intent and just as bad was Gueye wasting time that the ticking clock was to our advantage. Daft as anything considering he just carried on, not his best game by a long way.

Positives are we are improving every week and, despite initial misgivings, I think this manager could be good for us.

To all those shouting and screaming, it's a year ago this week that we appointed Allardyce. You can't expect to start beating the top teams away when we haven't done it for years. We're going in the right direction.

All-in-all, a good performance and a useful benchmark. We need a top striker. We need a right winger/midfielder. We need alternatives in center-midfield when players are below par (like Sigurdsson and Gana both today).

But, as gutted as I am, and as unsurprised as I remain, I think we really scared the RS today and it's up to us if we can move forward from this and take the positives and eliminate the mistakes. If we do that, we can start challenging for top 6 and then top 4 in short order.

Gomes was brilliant – the accuracy and weight of his passing was a joy to behold. Bernard's touch was incredible – the ball seemed to stick to his foot each time he pulled it out of the air. I don't understand the calls for earlier subs other than 'Mola for Walcott – Bernard was still looking likely to provide an incisive pass at any moment.

We're getting there, slowly but surely.

Not every player needs to play a blinder. What they need to do is put a shift in and every one of them did. Unfair to single out anyone... okay maybe one!

Bizarre, unlucky, stupid... call it what you want but we did not deserve that. Not that any of us are surprised.

So it's onwards and upwards. There's a long way to go this season and a couple of windows before we can really take this top 4 on. You know it, I know it... and soon enough everyone else will. Coyb

That was the flukiest goal I have ever seen in my long life. But, on reflection, we are so much better than last season that, even after such an ending, we have a lot to look forward to. We have a great manager, a good team that can only get better and superb support from over-taxed, frustrated fans.

Even today, I would still prefer to be a losing "Blue" than a supporter of the luckiest team ever put together... The RS. Their unbounded delight is proof that they knew just what a travesty had occurred right in front of their own eyes.

And then seeing that cunt Klopp celebrating like they had just won the Champions League!

I read the Live Forum on the train home. I understand disappointment but some posts are utterly brainless. One Tasker sounds as if his parents shouldn't allow him on social media, every comment is childish anti-Everton (or WUManish). And we get people blaming Kenwright there as well! I didn't notice what time he came on as sub.

And shouts to sell Pickford and play Virginia (doubtless not having watched him regularly). And shouts about Everton bottling it - it was one man's error, not the team's. I despair at times.

A gut-wrenching defeat, gut-wrenching, but that performance was progress. Six months in, as Dermot says, six months in and we gave them a game. Roll on the return fixture at Goodison Park.

Sure, it's gutting to lose this way, especially after all the dubious losses we've had against that lot over the years, but there's lots of positives to take from this performance and we are getting better and better.. Anyone who can't see that needs to buy some new specs...

We will soon win our fair share of matches against the so-called "top-six". Onwards and upwards, COYB!

Those bastards can't hurt me anymore, even though losing that was hard to take, but if anyone can't see that we are an improving team, with a decent squad of young players and a manager who sets his team out to “have a go” then hopefully once the pain eases then this might change.

They say it's our cup final, those smug, phoney Kopites, but you only had to look at the scenes at the end, to really understand what those fraudulent reds are really all about.

They were there for the taking but we couldn't find another mental and or physical gear.

From 88 mins on, we settled for the draw and fannied about time wasting in the time added on – then, thanks to Pickford, who had been a bit erratic in his kicking... always a sign of his overall performance not being 100% – we got served our usual dose of 'Everton That' karmatic rebound.

Would it spoil some vast eternal plan, disrupt the very fabric of the space-time continuum for us to get it right just once?

It seems the answer is – yes, it would.

"We will soon win our fair share of matches against the so-called 'top-six'."

In 4 games this season against the 'top-six' we haven't scored a single goal from open play. We won't beat them unless that problem is addressed. A new striker has to be the priority in the transfer window. Richarlison is far more effective playing out wide.

Whether Calvert-Lewin can do it as a No 9, who knows, and will he be given at least 4 or 5 games to prove his worth. And what do you do with either Bernard or Walcott if Richarlison goes wide, never mind what to do if you give Lookman a chance.

We need to find out and ASAP, before the January window kicks in. I'd like to see a front 3 of Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin and Lookman against Newcastle on Wednesday.

I'd also like to see Davies be given a game instead of Gueye. We've also got Watford at home after Newcastle, so Silva needs to explore his squad; can the youngsters fill in at the right level required to maintain 6th place?

The thing is that, of the chances created, we just didn't convert them. I feel for all blues after that result, but encouraged by the performance. What a pity Mike Gaynes couldn't have witnessed our long-awaited Anfield victory.

I think the return fixture will be a different kettle of fish. I believe that Andre Gomes got the MotM award, and deservedly so.

I just hope and pray that we can secure his services on a permanent basis without too much ado, and not having to pay a ridiculous amount, although, on his showings, he is worth it.

Even Souness, Redknapp and Carragher were commenting on how well Everton played, and gave that special mention for Andre Gomes.

Let's keep on moving on!

Having watched Everton since 1948, I have learned to accept that anything can happen in a game of football. I am as disappointed as any Evertonian but I can't believe some of the criticism that is being directed at Jordan Pickford. Of course it was a grave error of judgement, but football is played by humans and humans make mistakes.

I should imagine that Jordan Pickford will be as disappointed as we are, but what I can promise him is that I will be at Goodison Park on Wednesday night, giving him my full support. I believe that is the part I play in the scheme of things.

Older Evertonians will recall the abuse and ridicule Sandy Brown endured as the result of his own goal, also against Liverpool; these things happen. My philosophy has always been "If you can't lose, don't play; if you can't see your team lose, don't go."

I must apologise if I've ruffled a few feathers, and I must confess that age and experience has played a large part in my outlook on "The beautiful game".

We were well worth a point, they had five class strikers to choose from we had one. But we matched them in most other departments and surpassed them in midfield.

Chances came and went; to improve further, that has to change but surely everyone can see an improvement in personnel, set-up and mindset.

Silva has been here less than half a season and I personally see the upturn as a fantastic positive thing. We can consolidate 6th or 7th this season, that and a decent run in the FA Cup will be a fantastic start to his tenure. I hope we can then improve season on season.

We never embarrassed ourselves for once against them today. I don't see this as proof of lack of change or development as so many of you appear to do on here tonight.

Luck apart, I think it was the best football we've ever played in an Anfield derby and I have to give Silva credit for turning around the worst Everton team I have ever watched in 60 years to one that can now start to compete with the best.

Get Richarlison back to the left, give Calvert-Lewin a run until January at centre-forward and then get some money for Tosun and get a top goalscorer in and we should be in better shape.

We desperately need a finisher and I think it's time to throw Lookman on at the start. Otherwise more of the same will see us finish 6th.

Clear heads, chins up, move onwards and upwards.

In the words of the Screaming Skull, Shankly, "It was a Travesty!"

Cue Tourette's, bought of uncontrollable anger and a gasket well and truly blown! Next time, I'm going to hit the Benzo's big time.

Unlike some, I don't despair of the fact that, in terms of results, we're still lagging behind the five or six teams consistently above us. In terms of performance, it's already way different and hugely better, and that matters to me.

It matters because Silva's had less than 20 games to effect the changes he wants to develop in further improving us. Klopp's had more than 170, shedloads more money and the ref/FA protection-for-the-chosen-six, and yet even he was behaving like the classless knob he is when they got their fluky goal.

Marco, on the other hand, oozed class. He deserves time, money to spend, and support.

I know emotions are running high, so here's an idea – step away from the keyboard, take a long (and I do mean LONG) walk around the block and spare us the drivel.

Nobody saw that coming. Reds all over the Echo, proclaiming how great they are.

Terrible kick in the guts today but we were never going to win and, in the end, it was only a 1-point difference.

We need to put the heartbreak behind us and come out and bulldoze the Barcodes on Wednesday. Oh, and Jordan — a couple of penalty saves would go down a treat!!

I am also sick about our lack of finishing composure in the first half. Chances like those presented to Mina, Gomes, Walcott and Richarlison (twice) have to be taken, so those players are just as culpable as Pickford.

Somewhere within me, I can also acknowledge that we played very well. Gueye, Gomes and Bernard took the game to them, and Keane played well, but Walcott and Richarlison were poor. Silva needs to have a word with Richarlison, his antics are embarrassing and working against him.

Trying to take the positives, we were far, far better than when we played there in the FA Cup in January. We are improving. But I'm gutted.

I thought Walcott was poor today, and Gueye and Sigurdsson got caught in possession. I'd put McCarthy in the squad for Wednesday night.

Pickford's displays lately have been littered with poor decisions, trying to play short passes to marked defenders when it's blatantly not on, ambitious balls that don't come off and, in today's case, attempting to pull off the more dangerous option just to be in the limelight — basic goalkeeping to flick the ball over the bar for a corner rather than trying to show off.

If he learns from this, all well and good. Six points from next two games will assuage the pain.

I never felt quite this sick and shell-shocked after a derby but, now that the dust is settling in my head, I can reflect on a very, very solid performance. I pity all locals having to deal with usual for the next week or so. We'll turn them over in the return.

Let's admit it: we've come miles since this time last season so let's keep perspective, suffer the pain awhile (we'll practiced), and get right back behind a solid set-up.

We had four presentable chances; Mina, Gomes, Walcott & Bernard. We hit the target once from those four. It's been the case in so many of our away trips, a clear reason for not winning this type of game.

The quality finish is just not there. Until we score in those fleeting and vital moments and hurt the better teams, we will always come away with nothing.

The bigger test is can the team turn itself around and win both the homes games this week?

I'm thinking like John McFarlane, and Brent Stephens, and hoping like Paul Tran. I thought we were as good as Liverpool, Derek, but not better though. We looked more controlled than them (Gueye excepted) but they had that little bit more than us in the final third, because were they ran in behind a few times; we never quite done that enough imo.

I see the Red Echo are trying to twist Silva's words to make a big story, but I finally think we have got another manager who is only interested in the football, which is the only thing that should matter to us Blues.

I'll forgive the lad though, in a day or two; he has saved us a few times this season.

I'm sure he's hurting but certainly not as much as some of us fans, believe me.

We're playing better, certainly not as bad as previous seasons, but results at Mordor remain the same; to think how bad things were under Smith and that was the last time we won there is unbelievable.

I get the feeling Silva don't trust/rate our subs judging by minutes on the pitch today; some fresh legs were needed sooner. The less said about Walcott, the better in my opinion, miles off pace.

Just another game? No, this fixture never has been... Raw? You bet — and will be for a little while longer.

I'm just hoping they respond to an undeserved disaster at the end by tearing Newcastle apart on Wednesday night. And hoping Marco decides it's time to let Lookman play from the start in place of Walcott, and rest Keane to give Zouma a game.

Whoever we start, it's a night game at Goodison Park and we need to shout the roof off. COYB!

I felt proud of the lads today. Maybe that's why the result today is so sickening. Too often in recent years, we have been dominated in the derby and have been well beaten or have got a point but never looked like winning. Today, we could have won.

I don't know what is worse, losing when you could have won, or losing when you were shit. Everton are playing better football than 12 months ago. We are improving in all areas. Nearly another clean sheet. We created good, scoreable chances. We had the best player on the pitch in Gomes.

Pickford's mistake was a sickener, but he has made important saves this season. I hope he will be better for this. COYB

Perhaps Michael Kenrick might take a lead from your reasoned words.

Like you, I too am extremely disappointed, but I am sure Jordan Pickford feels worse.

The longer the game went on and we didn't convert the chances, I was almost resigned to a sucker punch and it came at the usual time. I could blame Pickford like a lot on here but, up to the beginning of today, I think most Evertonians agreed he is the best keeper we have had for years and some of the saves he has made have given us a more solid back 5.

Of course, he made a total cock-up, but he's only 24 ffs, so he will make mistakes. The fact it was in a derby is just more galling but we really should have been at least a goal to the good by then.

The performance today was what a lot of us wanted, a vast difference to the last few years. It showed belief and balls but it showed that M&M MUST buy a proven goalscorer in January or we will be lamenting similar performances again until we have someone who is a natural finisher.

I am totally gutted (again!) but the improvement this season shows it's a work in progress. When Marco came in, I don't think anyone would have expected such a turnaround after the previous dross. The reason we are so pissed off today is because we showed we are their equal despite all the hype. As soon as we have someone who can lead the line... I think we are heading in the right direction.

Today sucks though!!

Silva stuck to his plan and had a real go at them, respect.

Gomes was outstanding and dominated their midfield, he needs to be signed up ASAP.

The back five were very steady and they didn't play through us once.

Bernard worked very hard and has improved. He is getting sharper as his fitness improves, though I do think he is out of position.

Lookman looked lively when he came on.

Richarlison worked his ass off and was a nuisance all day; though he needs moving to the left.

Yes, it will hurt like hell for a while, but that's a long way from last season.

Anyway, my red-nosed-bastard of a partner came home on 90+4 minutes, and it was the only time I hadn't felt relaxed all day.

I booted the kids' toys everywhere, told her to fuck off, the horrible red nosed fucker, and my little daughter started crying.

"It won't be the only time Everton make her cry," was my thoughts once I'd calmed down, but she told me it was because Everton had lost, and not because her dad had lost it!

Now is the test for us all, the team, backroom staff & us – be strong and support our team, including the keeper who's done us proud since joining. It was a horrible error on his part, and he'll learn from it, quickly!

I find some of the defeatist and self-pitying comments above pathetic; it was the best we've played against the RS for years and everyone at the club deserves credit for that.

Stick together and roar the team on, starting on Wednesday – let's show everyone what great supporters we are. COYB

The worst shot of the match and it could go anywhere on Merseyside but it sits right on the feckin crossbar...

I think Pickford was really good today apart from the error and I hope he doesn't suffer for it, I really like the lad's attitude and character and he has a confidence about him that I hope is not affected by this. He is and will be a top keeper for a long time

We played them off the park today at times, gents... when is the last time that happened?

Overall, an excellent performance that warranted more. I hope Pickford has a stormer in the next couple of games to get himself back on track.

The Red Shite celebrated like they had won a cup. Apparently beforehand, the likes of Gomez (Joe) were suggesting their superiority. It wasn't there.

I like the attitude of Silva and Brands and the approach of players like Richarlison, Mina and Digne. We are becoming a professional outfit at last. I'm really positive for the future... none of the away games against our competitors has been a walkover and that's after one transfer window and five months of a new regime.

Please, Blues, keep with this new regime. I see good things ahead. By the way, Klopp is a tit; if their team wins the league, then it shows how shite the league is... and second, by the way, Van Dijk is a pompous twat. Up the Blues.

Negatives:

Lack of clear-cut chances to win the game despite good possession.

Failure to make subs on 60 minutes that would have capitalised on their tiredness.

Misplaced passes when we could have worked their back 4 (Coleman, Walcott and Bernard).

Pickford's fuck up.

Positives:

Feeling they couldn't break us down in open play.

Strong and calm set-piece defending.

Midfield superiority.

Untarnished refereeing.

Comparison between now and 12 months ago. We are so much better now.

Today, you see the flukiest derby goal for a lifetime. I'm hurting but in a different way to the recent matches under the Klogg Allardyce and Bobby Brown Shoes.

Today I take big hope and heart, in the season and I'm backing the team to bounce back against the Barcodes.

Forget the Echo, it's a miracle how it gets a license to be a news paper. We look after ourselves and we learn from today. Against any team, but versus them, remember Graham Poll dissallowed Don Hutchinson's goal as Vestervelt threw it at him and it went in, at the Street End... and he said he'd blown up and the replay prooved he hadn't.

A lifetime of anguish in the main playing the RS, but if we can get more confidence to shoot and finish (a proper forward) is on the New Year wish list and signing Gomes, this squad can kick on.

Overall, I felt our players put a shift in but didn't quite have the belief or guile to finish them off when we had our prime chances at key stages in the game.

Jordan Pickford will learn the hard way but I hope he's not gonna be pilloried for this mistake.

Hopefully he'll pick himself up, as will the team, and we move on.

He'll feel bad, but don't underestimate how bad some Blues will be feeling tonight, tomorrow and days later.

Absolutely gutted and even more so on the 14 bus back to town, having to put up with the foreign RS, singing etc.

However, there are positives... one of which was the towering MotM performance from Gomes and the general overall team play was an improvement on the usual derby.

Gueye had his poorest game for a long time and I think it's time Richarlison was moved back to his best position which is on the left. He came into the game in the last 20 minutes but he's not a centre-forward. Walcott continued his average form and may be better coming off the bench to run at sides, late on.

A much better game from Bernard and some of his flicked passes were sublime.

This game showed, once again, that an out-and-out striker is a must in the January window.

I watched it on telly and there is no doubt that the Sky commentator and Carragher were willing them on to a win.

Next up: Watford... Murphy's fecking Law!

Pickford has saved us on so many occasions so, to all the fucking idiots on here who are pillorying our brilliant keeper and who cannot forgive a mistake, I say grow up and get a grip.

I was so energised by our performance. For the first time in God knows how long, I thought we were better than them and deserved to win. We have so many better players than them too.

Good times are on the way and, once you've got over the injustice and disappointment, there are lots of reasons to be cheerful.

A bit drastic there... besides, where would we get a Racehorse's Head, without injuring any animals in the process?

Seriously, though, I think he would be a welcome addition but, assuming we hang on to André Gomes, where would he fit in?

Next up Newcastle!! My first visit this season (due to infirmity). I cant wait.

It looks like Brands & Silva are what we have needed for a long, long time, and Jay Harris @128 (2nd paragraph) says it best for me.

“we should have won this match, but we didn't; so same story ”

How many times can you say we deserved to win at Anfield? Very few that I recall in recent times. That's why – even if the result is familiar – the story has changed.

You make your own luck – or so they say. Moshiri's next task is to find who's in charge of our luck-making department and give them a kicking.

I've never felt so many emotions in the space of 10 seconds: shock, sickness, stomach-wrenching dread, laughter, more shock, crying and at the same time a sense of satisfaction that, for long periods, we controlled the game.

I mentioned on another post earlier today that it sometimes comes down to luck to win these close games – and boy does our luck run bad.

Overall, a good game with many positives and, despite the result, we are clearly moving in the right direction and much improved from the last 4 seasons.

Pickford is small for a modern-day goalkeeper and I wish he had another few inches in his reach but he's still a good goalkeeper. He needs to learn and get over it. No idea what he was thinking of but I agree, he needed to go for the ball because even I sensed it could drop into a dangerous area.

Before that, it was probably his worst game in terms of his distribution, far too many poor kicks, so he's had a bit of an off-day; it happens, it just better not happen again soon because we have no worthy understudy to challenge him. It wasn't quite a Karius moment but he'll have nightmares about it tonight.

The game highlighted a few points for me that I disagree with with Silva about.

Richarlison is wasted upfront and should be involved and on the ball more often playing deeper or wider where he's much more dangerous.

Gomes is the type of player we have lacked for years, bloody brilliant! We should do all we can to wrap the deal ASAP because I'm sure every other team in the league will be sniffing around him.

We play too many free-kicks backwards, why? It's really starting to bug me because, 5 seconds later, we hoof it forwards anyway when our players have already retreated.

Digne is a good crosser but his free-kicks and corners are not. More work on the training ground needed as we don't look any nearer to scoring from a corner despite the threat we now have.

Richarlison's and Bernard's work rate is fantastic and it's great to have talented players prepared to put a shift in along with the rest of the team. It's why Walcott keeps Lookman out of the starting 11.

I'm looking forward to the Man City and Spurs games with optimism and hope for the January transfer window.

With regard to Michael Kenrick, I don't think that we sing from the same hymn sheet, and anyway it's not really my intention to influence anyone. I'm quite content to express my opinion, for what it's worth.

Also, I think if they are in with a shout with a few matches left, we will see new levels of spawniness – never mind today. They're not playing that well but still...

Someone do me a favour and tell me it won't happen.

By the way, I'm made up with our manager. We'll get there with this fella!

We played well, not as many chances as them but really ones we should have benefited from.

I was more than happy with the performance; we are getting better and will continue to do so. We are short of a good striker; he'll come sooner than later.

Bad luck or jinxes had nothing to do with us losing; we all know why we lost.

The future is bright for me and I've got plenty of patience to watch us go forward under Brands and Silva.

If the shite win the Premier League, there is definitely a Faustian pact... my 19-year-old son has told me they won't win it because the shite are shite. I do hope so. I do like what Silva and Brands are doing... and Denise Barrett-Baxendale off the field too.

Like you, I very rarely sing from the same hymn sheet as Michael Kenrick.

So, though I was naturally gutted today, I was far from surprised, and able to look at what was a good (albeit not great) performance,take the positives and many plaudits.

But, what do I say to my 8-year-old lad whose eyes welled up the second the goal went in and has gone to bed dreading school tomorrow because of the stick he's going to get. Not to mention the daggers I'm getting from his mother, as if to say, "It's your fault!"

Thank a bunch, Everton. They can always be relied on to deliver a swiift kick in the bollocks, which hurts just as much, even when it's fully expected.

After that game, I felt it brought tempered steel into the Everton of that season and we soon enjoyed our halcyon years in modern times.

This loss today I'm hopping will spur us on, I'm convinced we can learn and get stronger from today.

Barcodes and Watford and we move on to Pep.

The killer instinct is what we need upfront so, hopefully soon, this is found.

Let's get behind the team and dust down and bounce back vs The Barcodes. Let's unite and stick together, and get behind the team and move on.

The lad has saved us a few times this season and will learn from it. Looks like he jumps to collect the ball and launch a counter but misjudges it.

We're cursed at that ground; I mean how many times does a ball bounce twice on the bar and of course fall right into the path of an RS?

We didn't deserve to lose and played some great football, especially from Gomes.

The nagging thing that gets me though is that they gambled and won again. Strikers on, going for it, whilst we were putting defenders on and dropping deep.

Horrific ending but we weren't going for it like they were and then they got the ridiculous luck that we all dreaded.

But those who think we are making ground on top 4/5 are, despite a hugely improved performance, sadly, delusional. The gap between us is immense.

It is not closing, in any shape or form.

Pickford has that in him but hopefully he'll improve.

Hopefully Gomes stays due to the Silva factor as there'll be plenty after him.

Best performance at Anfield in years by a mile.

Those that lambast Pickford for us losing the game, are you also blaming Mina and Gomes in equal measure given that each of them were culpable for a single goal (either not scored by us or conceded against)? No? Thought not, so best to support them (and the team) to recover and move on.

I believe the points to focus on are:

1. It's astronomic how far we've come in such a short time. Massive progress. Onwards and upwards, and

2. We came up against probably the best Liverpool team in the time since we last beat them and not only played really well and should have beaten them, but also put the shits up their fans as witnessed by Anfield being as quiet as I can ever remember it.

Heads held high – they can't goad us as they know how lucky they were.

You obviously know as much about football as Cyril Smith did about hang-gliding.

Brent Stephens @109, take a bow sir. Well said.

Anyone saying we should replace Pickford hasn't watched.

This kid is an outstanding keeper. Outstanding. To come on here, after he's made a howler that will undoubtedly be talked about for the next half century, and say he's not good enough? That to me just isn't taking into account the entire body of work.

It disappoints me when people crucify our own. Jordan Pickford doesn't deserve that treatment. The number of times he's saved our bacon is a very, very high number.

I understand people are frustrated. I told my wife after the game, I've seen some awful defeats in my life. This one was the worst.

My Dad died in 2007 from necrotizing fasciitis. Flesh-eating disease. A freak occurrence that you have a better chance of happening to you than getting hit by lightning. He was gone in four hours. I held the man's hand while he died.

When I got home, my wife asked, "how are you?"

My only response was, "I feel like I just got punched in the gut." It was this despair, air knocked out of you, kind of thing.

I told my wife after the game, I had the same feeling. Now my Dad was a 10 out-of 10 on the shit scale. This is a game. But it was like a 4 out-of 10 on the shit scale; the exact same feeling.

What just happened? How did this happen? Someone punched me in the gut.

So ya, it hurts.

But to vilify Jordan Pickford? No thank you. Not me.

Light up that Liver Building in Blue. We should be proud of the performance and the players, despite that horrific feeling we have.

We have good players. We're on the up. We have class. We have a coach who doesn't fucking run on the pitch celebrating like a completely classless asswipe. We have great, great fans. We're building a new stadium. We're wonderful to watch.

For the first time in years I truly believe we're going places.

I can not wait for the derby at Goodison. I think we'll roll them over. And that revenge for that moment, and all the snide-ass comments you poor folks will have to endure from the red people over there, will get turned around and tossed right the fuck back at them.

I truly believe that.

This sucks. But things are undoubtedly on the up and positive on the whole.

I hope Jordan Pickford, when his name is announced Wednesday, gets a roaring applause. The kid's been wonderful for us.

Sorry for the long rant / post.

Let's get points in Wednesday and push on. Despite how the day has gone we are in a much better position than this time last season. Silva and Brands will kick on. Maybe a new centre-forward.

This is a small blip on a longer road. Coyb.

For all the optimism at the fact we gave it a go, ultimately football is a results game. We went there last season with Fat Sam, defended for 90 mins and came away with a point. At the end of the day, that is a better result, no matter how we played, and that is all the record book will show.

This season, we have been to four of the so-called big six and come away with a solitary point and one goal from the penalty spot. Yes, we've played better in patches in those games but ultimately we've got very little to show for it.

Our quality in front of goal is simply not good enough to win these games. Gomes played really well today but he had a free header from 5 yards and placed it straight at the keeper. Those are the margins and the differences.

Yes, it's a results business.

But do you not see the galactic improvement? Do you not think that this team, under Silva, will indeed start to turn some of these disappointments into three points in the near future?

I do.

Top 6 should be the aim this season, top 4 next season with a top-quality striker added to our side; it's not all doom and gloom. COYB!!!

It's a pity that the Blues couldn't do it for Mike Gaynes in particular. I thoroughly enjoyed Friday evening and regret that I didn't get a round in, but hopefully there will be other opportunities to do so. I think you will appreciate that I'm not a skinflint. I just found that our company was a bit fragmented to begin with, and by the time we were able to find a seat, it was time for me to leave.

Regarding Jimmy Greaves, he was born on 20 February 1940, and like yourself, a mere 78-year-old whippersnapper, his League record was as follows:

Chelsea – played 157 games, scored 124 goals

Tottenham Hotspur – played 321 games, scored 220 goals

West Ham United – played 36 games (plus 2 sub appearances), scored 13 goals. Not bad, was it?

I'm going downstairs to watch Match of the Day now.

Things are on the up, I can say confidently.

Of course It's a results business, but when we consider where we were six months ago, then only Tyson Fury has made more progress than us in such a short space of time and, just like Wilder, them Liverpudlians know they were very, very lucky today!

We are on the up and all that watch or play against are acknowledging that fact. They were lucky that we fucked up today and they know it, that mistake may have saved their title hopes.

No doubt that we need to sort out the striker position, I will be surprised if M&M do not already have a plan because they have for everything else so far.

We have a good team that is developing into a very good team and there are great times ahead if we continue to progress. I am looking forward to Wednesday because we really need to exorcise today as quickly as possible.

The fans need to get behind Jordan and show him forgiveness, he is a fantastic keeper and character. So come on guys, we will have our revenge at Goodison Park but, in the meantime, we need to show the team that we are proud of them and the improvements seen.

And oh, the Liver Birds look absolutely awesome!

Your stuff on this site is superb and your comments on the game today bring some perspective. You see the big picture, I am trying to. I look forward to meeting you again.

Still gutted, though. Really hurt.

Yes, Jamie, and he made several important saves today, and several pieces of anticipation that avoided the need for a save.

He'll get that applause on Wednesday.

Honestly.

The Whining fucks.

I have just watched Match of the Day, and while I know they only show a small percentage of the game, I was quite impressed. It was a far cry from the 4-0 or 5-0 drubbings we have had to endure in recent seasons.

Regarding a possible meeting, I'm relying on some Toffeewbber to provide an excuse for such an occasion. I am led to believe that my 80th birthday bash was the first such arrangement, and together with Friday's, it was great to be able to put faces to names.

We definitely need to buy Gomes... don't let him go back... the attitude was definitely different today. The players weren't playing scared.

Plus point was André Gomes. He gets better each time I see him. Have to sign him up!! The only other positive I can take today is at least the ladies showed the men how it's done. 2-1 winners against the Red Shite today!

That being said, I'm buying a ticket for the return leg in March and will be dragging my Granddad to the match and bringing my football loving cousin over with me. I hope to be able to see some of you over that weekend.

Fuck, that was painful but, fuck, it feels good to have that level of belief back. Double-edged sword. We'll thrash them at Goodison and I'll lose my voice cheering them on in person.

You get no points for travelling in the right direction;
You get no points for making progress;
You get no points signing a few decent players;
You get no points for being unlucky;
You get no points for nice midfield passing;
You get no points for working hard;
You get points for a draw or a win, end of.

When will we get it? Really. When will we understand. I'm not proud of playing well at Anfield when we lose. I want a win at any cost, any way, any how.

It cannot take five years to get there. No manager's getting that much time. We have to break out of this nightmare set of stats against the top 5/6. We simply must start winning a few of those games, just one or two even. It's about momentum and confidence – not patting yourself on the back because we were gallant and underserved losers. Last few years we got more as we played less open and stylish and we were awful to watch. The season league table included games saved by Jags and Rooney. I'd rather play unattractively and win at Anfield or frustrate the hell out of them and draw. I'd rather anything than today watching Pickford's casual mistake destroy all that effort.

But apparently I'm out of step. We are going in the right direction, so it's okay. No, it fucking isn't – we can't beat the best teams – ever! And we need to start soon or being king of the 7th-placed castle really will reduce the Bramley-Moore Dock capacity debate to irrelevant editors. I love it when we play gorgeous football, enjoy it hugely, but I'd rather play shite and win than lose and suffer the endless commiserations of fans so used to finding something positive from defeat it's become a mantra – we are going in the right direction.

Winning is all that really matters. It honestly is.

By the way, couldn't help noticing: 220 posts, and no-one's criticised the referee!

Evidently this bloke must have taken a year off in 97-98 when the true 'worst Everton team' most people remember somehow dodged relegation on goal difference.

It hurts but it hurts differently this time. We can match them now. Very fine margins and a freak goal goes against us. Spurs, on the other hand, got shellacked.

It doesn't change the season, we are still 6th and we need to keep moving on. I'm looking forward to playing them again later in the season... No fear, Blues.

If we finally buy another 20-goal striker and Richarlison gets moved back out wide, you've got to wonder if Theo will be sold.

Going back to the game, it had 0-0 written all over it. They couldn't break us down and we matched them in every area. There has to be darker forces conspiring against us. It does make you wonder if there's some gypsy curse hanging over us because we really didn't deserve that today. There is an inevitability that we would be jinxed and luck would be on their side.

Having read most of the comments I think some of the comments against Pickford are excessive, and some are plain ridiculous, like calling for Virginia to play. There's lots of variables and what-ifs, like the ref adding on extra time, Van Dijk slicing the ball, the defenders not tracking back when the ball was in the air for an age. Pickford not being a couple of inches taller.

Like I say, there's a lot of what ifs here, but what can be concluded is that it was a freak goal so Pickford shouldn't get all the blame. He was justified in going for the ball, and if he was a taller keeper I suspect he would have dealt with it. But he isn't, and it was just one of those things. It's just a major pity it happened there of all places.

Get your shit together and move on. We are on the up!!

Being content to ‘match the shite' after losing to them demonstrates far more of a ‘losers mentality' to me. Do you think they would have been content that they'd ‘matched us' if the same thing happened down the other end?

I badly want us to draw them in the FA Cup at Anfield in the 3rd round. We will end our wait to win at theirs, and follow it by battering them at ours.

A message to Marcel Brands: get us that centre-forward we so badly need in January. Can you imagine this team with a complete No 9, putting away chances laid on by Gylfi & Co?

ps: Wrap up the move for Gomes.

What a fricken disaster! When your luck's in, it is in... and when your luck's out, you don't stand a chance!

We have watched some absolute shite down the years. I know certain games are all about the result, but I can take losing to Liverpool yesterday because I think the future is going to be better, and that's more important than anything right now.

Learn off it, is all's I can say. Learn Pickford and learn all those Evertonians who don't realise how snide most Liverpool fans can be.

Bitter blues, it's our cup final? I know they hate us, but because of how poor we have been, they have been able to easily mask it, but in the space of 12 months, we have gone from playing like a non-league side to watching a team with genuine talent, and hopefully this is only going to be the start?

We matched Liverpool and gave them more than a game; we're playing better football under Silva and we need to get behind the lads – not take lumps out of them.

A 20-goal-a-season centre-forward and we're not far off at breaking into the top 4 again. Patience is a virtue... building a team doesn't happen overnight. I feel we're ahead of time as it is, I've every confidence we'll keep improving...

The downside is they might occasionally make a mistake they can learn from.

Can't have the good without any bad. That's life. Jordan's given us far more good performances than mistakes. And even then, his mistake needed a freak outcome to count against him. Never seen that happen in my life.

Same goes for Silva. Hopefully he (and people on here who called it a strategic decision) have learned that throwing another centre-half on is a self-fulfilling prophecy. You have more players defending, but you have to defend more.

You might get away with it a couple of times, but be prepared for stick when the opposition are picking up every clearance and grab a late winner.

Only real mistake the ref made in my opinion and also added 4 minutes which became 6. Madness. When does that happen? Didn't give us any opportunity to go up the other end and have a go because as soon as the ball left their area he blew the whistle.

Can't believe their luck, will it ever end?!?

I am not given to hating but — I cannot abide them, their players, or their manager.

We lost that game; it was our own fault for reasons already stated above. But, unlike previous teams and managers, this team and manager won't curl up in a foetal position and carry it into the next derby. They will feed off this disappointment because they are a different breed.

I have been for sticking with Walcott but I reckon Lookman will start against the Barcodes. If Silva does decide to move Richarlison back to the left, it will be at the expense of both Walcott and Lookman because Bernard is a very, very clever footballer and puts a terrific shift in, so I can't see him being dropped.

First, their goal was a ludicrous abomination. I suppose Pickford might have done better, but I suspect the ball was spinning furiously after that atrocious shank of a "shot" and its trajectory was probably impossible to predict. Presumably Van Dijk will win two "hit the bar" prizes after that one.

Second, and more significantly, it was clear from Klopp's reaction that this was their cup final, and it was the kind of thing I would expect to see if Accrington Stanley beat Barcelona. The RS manager and players clearly felt they had got (another) extremely undeserved and lucky win.

I was proud of our performance yesterday. We went there and had a go and there were a lot of positives to take from the game. We're definitely heading in the right direction as a club.

We need 6 points from the next two home matches.

I cannot imagine the hysteria if this happened to them, as we all know, their sense of outrage knows no limits and is unrestrained by decency or reason. We are such a better team than last season and a measure of that progress can be found in their wild celebrations. Everton's football was excellent at times and more than matched them, something not seen for far too long.

I hope we have a top striker when they come to Goodison and we give them a good hiding, but I wouldn't want Silva acting like Klopp: revenge is best served cold.

I had a lot of respect for Klopp but not after seeing that. They are so quick to take offence at any perceived slight but are blind to their own offences.

In my view, his biggest problem is that he's too impulsive – something he will hopefully grow out of. I can recall 3 clear errors he made yesterday:

(1) Very early doors when he sliced a ball away, giving them their first corner;

(2) An instant before half-time when, instead of calmly taking a bit of time out of the game, he hammered the ball upfield, giving possession straight back – Sigurdsson was furious with him about that;

(3) And finally, the catastrophic error that handed the game to them when, on balance, I thought we had been the more dangerous side.

As I say, I think he'll grow out of the impetuousness; and hopefully, the trauma of what he did yesterday will hasten this time.

We nearly beat the opposition yesterday, but were simply unlucky. Shit happens, but now we know it's just ‘random shit' rather than a systemic problem.

We'll win consistently by continuing to do what we're doing now, and riding the inevitable occurrences of bad luck.

We have style, we have class, we generally compete fairly, and we have a capable and very professional manager who's making us play exciting entertaining football.

Let's put yesterday down to useful experience, that will motivate us even more to beat the best, to ride the bad luck that comes the way of every team.

Come on you Blues.

A striker and a classy right back imperative in January.

Maybe the best way for all such players to apologise is to give their wages for that week to charity. In donating their week's wages, it would give them empathy with the fans who have spent their money to watch them and it would give them a good feeling helping others. Hopefully it will encourage them not to miss open goals or to 'gift' goals to the opposition.

I think I am correct in saying that was not that long ago when Donavan used to donate £1,000 to charity every time he scored — remember him?

I, too, had a lot of respect for Klopp prior to yesterday.

What he did was inexcusable. The complete lack of respect shown was awful.

The one positive I can take from it was Klopp was frightened to death of us. Why else would he react like they’d just won the Champions League FFS? He knows were a really good side, so that’ll do for me.

I hope we score on the return fixture at Goodison, and whomever scores runs right the fuck by him on the sidelines, pumping their fists with glee like a foot away from him. Get right up in his grill and rub it in.

He’s got it coming to him.

Btw, Walcott is absolutely shite and surely it is time for Lookman to come in.

Also, I've not been impressed for weeks now by Bernard.

And excusing Klopp's actions just because a former manager went on the pitch?

If everyone jumped off a bridge...

Like you said, maybe before your time... yet you still dismiss it. If anyone is jumping off the bridge, it's not me.

I've lived through 19 years of shit at that ground now so no point trying to convince me of anything today.

Also: Gomes needs signing up quick.

I also thought it strange that, when a few of us TW'ers met at the Midland on Friday to meet Mike Gaynes, Steve Ferns, who had indicated only a couple of days before that he would join us all, but it wouldn't be till after 7 o'clock, never showed at all despite most of us staying till about 10.

I do hope he is okay, as he has been through a lot just recently, but still always found time to contribute to TW. If you do see this, Steve, let us all know that you are okay, and that you have been missed!

On a different note, some on here need to get behind the players instead of slagging them off.

I second that, mate.

I cannot remember Everton ever getting the benefit of any ''controversial'' results against the RS and I have been watching derby matches since the early Sixties.

Small consolation that Klopp has been charged.

No doubt he was MotM and I sincerely hope we persuade Barca to sell him to us come January or whenever. Bernard had a good game also. Some of his passing and ball control was first class but, as others have opined, Richarlison is better out left and Lookman should be starting in place of Theo.

Klopp's antics are not even worthy of discussion.

It's so easy to say this guy is shit and this guy should be dropped but you are dealing with people here who are human and make mistakes.

Yes, you gotta weed out the ones that are always making mistakes but, FFS, Pickford is the England No 1 keeper. Yes, he made a bad call and, in hindsight, I bet he wishes he had've punched it over but he didn't.

We made more clear-cut chances in this game than we did in several other games last season, with no shots on target quite often. This is against a team who have only conceded 5 league goals all season.

It's as well as I've seen us play there for years and I think it bodes well that we could be sitting above Man Utd, who have spent far more than we have, come Xmas.

ToffeeWeb is my only comforting place.

We are turning into a good team, and after the shite we have had to endure for years then that's the most important thing for me.

Save Liverpool for the FA Cup, or put a big nail into their hopes later in the season. Trust me, it will mean more when it eventually happens.

Should be an electric atmosphere on Wednesday, and with Newcastle only taking the lower sections of the Bullens Road, hopefully we can drown the Geordies out and Pickford will not hear any taunts from the away section.

Early goal for us and I'd fancy a 4-0 or 5-0 victory.

Hope you are right and the great times are just round the corner. I'm numb over derby defeats. The years do that to you... 1986 will never leave my heart and brain. I can't describe the pain.

The next generation deserve to at least get a taste of being proud and exited Evertonians with no fear against Jeff Stellings golden boys.

Brian, Wembley was horrible in 1986 but coming home from Oxford, bumping into Liverpudlians coming home from Leicester, was probably the worst I've ever felt in all my years watching the Blues.

Silva looks like he's instilling both the style and, more importantly, “the belief” and hopefully soon “our day will come”. And when it does, I'm not sure the phoneys will be able to take it...

Pickford's mistake was costly, but maybe it was worth it to get rid of another “red Merseyside derby myth”. Our cup final? Don't let the bastards kid yer!

1986 was character-building, to say the least! I was 21 and came down to Wembley from Cumbria with my younger brother. (We were at the '85 defeat to Man Utd also.) We had a bird's eye view about a third of the way back behind the goal.

When Lineker scored at the far end, there was a massive surge, and I ended up on the floor, buried, trampled, and fearing for my life! The thrill of the goal eased the pain of my cracked ribs for a while. The journey home in a train full of singing RS was torturous.

Ever hopeful, I can't wait until Wednesday.

I think people reacting to Pickford's one mistake (albeit a big one) in such a negative way is very poor. Earlier, he saved a certain goal from Shaqiri (was it?).

Even the best keeper is going to make the silliest of errors occasionally. It just so happened, as our shite luck would have it, that it was in the 96th minute against them.

Losers concentrate on the negative which may then prey on the minds, winners on the positive, and there was a lot to be positive about.

Matching the shite at their place at our stage of team development is fine by me for the moment. Onwards and upwards! (sigh...).

Tony Abrahams #260, – 100% agree. I feel the same.

Plus, I see many more reasonable comments on here today which heartens me.

COYB

Gutted for Mike Gaynes to witness his first live loss, as I really believed he was our totem after the Burnley and Leicester games I got him tickets for last season.

Also gutted to miss the get-together Friday night for Mike and meet you lads there that I don't know. Rob and Pete tell me you were all sound, but the small matter of my 60th coincided, and a week drinking in Prague, then a week with kids and grandkids – and more drink – simply burnt me out.

Pickford will make more mistakes, all goalies do, but the scales are still tipped firmly in his favour as far as I am concerned. The future, like the Liver Birds, is blue lads. Dare to believe.

Finally, I thought Klopp was over-enthusiastic in his celebrations, petty in bringing up Funes Mori's foul on Origi, apparently lied when he said he apologised to Silva, and Marco himself showed the class that Klopp has not got, in his own interview.

Roll on Wednesday night, see you there.

A visit to the Church involved in Operation Anthropoid is also a must. Enjoy.

Acquire a striker and we will become a top, top side. Well done to Silva, like many I was unsure about the wisdom of hiring in due to his relative lack of experience. But then, when I think about it, Howard Kendall was a relative managerial novice when he took over and look where that ended.

As I say, the top 4 are in for one hell of an awakening by us if Marcel keeps finding the right players.

Time for Virginia to start on Wednesday (joking... for now). Although them shower showed Karius no mercy!!!

Fact is, they've won nothing for a long time now, not as long as us, but still a long time. I think they're now frightened of us, they can see the quality and attitude, and they're especially frightened that we'll win something after they've failed to do so despite all the investment they've had.

They won't be looking forward to the next derby game, that's for sure.

My – not a bad bloke for a rs - brother-in-law says 2 things:
Yes, we were robbed, they got out of jail, and second, we should break the bank for Gomes and if we don't, they should.

As Mike says, not a prayer Silva would act the way the German did – he's got far more class. That didn't bother me; the man loves the limelight and is under the distinct impression everyone loves him. Not true, of course.

My issue was with that no mark from their coaching staff (I think) pumping his fists at our bench Haven't got a clue who he was but someone off our bench should have took issue with him.

By the way, does anyone honestly think the German would have praised us if it had ended a draw? No chance; it'd have been all about them, the patronising fucker. I thought we were brilliant Sunday but Pickford is off my Xmas card list, Bill.

I was thrilled with Everton's performance on Sunday; we showed what way we are going and the goalkeeper played his part in that. We had earned and deserved that point... then, it was ripped out of our hands by the ridiculously stupid mistake by the custodian of our goal.

Every time I think of that last minute, it is like a punch in the solar plexus; it won't go away. What the goalie did was more than very poor — not our reaction to it.

I agree. What Jordan did, in the last minute of such a big game, was very poor and cannot be defended or some how 'balanced out' because he made good saves earlier in the game.

That said, I don't think it merits going to the other extreme as some have done and churning out the old chestnuts that he is too short, too tempremental, too 'Johnny Big Boots', technically unsound and should be dropped or sold off asap.

I know you and Mike Gaynes were sat at that end of the park (hope your cover wasn't blown and that the corset and high heels didn't pinch too tight...), but I wonder what your thoughts were on something about their goal I've not seen any one else raise:

As the ball is lofted hopefully in, Yerry Mina meets it, under no pressure whatsover. Surely, he has to make a better clearing header than he does? He gets no elevation, no power or distance on his header. A straight powerful header down the pitch would have turned the 9 'poo players in and around our penalty area and we could have re-grouped and the whistle would have blown.

His weak angled header gave them the chance to hook the ball back in so Everton could once again contrive a way to lose a Derby.

Not excusing Jordan for his horrible gaffe, but Mina's poor header allowed that lot to keep the ball alive in a dangerous area.

What's your reading of that, Dave?

Pickford made some great stops in the game, but that does not somehow eradicate, pardon or balance out such a horrible misjudgement, as so many seem to claim. The world simply doesn't work like that. The game was lost as a consequence. The well-earned point gone. The error is on video and will be replayed ad nauseam.

I've been tempted to challenge the likes of Tony (#158) and Dave (#187) for their veiled non-specific name-calling that was aimed at me presumably for daring to point out the lad's error in the context of the match report. Not quite sure what that was all about...

Me and Mike were introduced to a couple of red fans by (my son) Tony's mate who gave us the tickets. These fans were okay and we had no problems. Had a good chat to the red on the left of me; he told me he was biased, I told him I was a Blue, he just shrugged no problem.

The same fan got up screaming at Gana when he went down: "Get up, you cheating bastard." Fair enough, I thought. I then told him what turned out to be the truth:

"Sometimes, going down helps the other team because more time is added on."

Little did I know...

You, sir, are everything an Evertonian should be. Thanks for a lovely afternoon (final minute notwithstanding).

As I wrote myself Dave, Mina's poor clearance (as I deem it) does not get Jordan off the hook for his brain fart moment, but it was a mitigating factor.

You reference another action that had a consequence, also. Four minutes was the official injury time. Gana's 'injury' added another two minutes... and do we need reminding what happened in the final seconds of those additional 2 minutes..?

Good job my wife doesn't read these posts, she would think she's married to someone else!!!!

Seriously, Mike, enjoyed the afternoon myself, apart from the obvious, glad you got home safe and sound.

Jay (281), my mistake that, when I told Mike that Tony had managed to get his ticket, I said it was in the Liverpool End; I should have said it was in the Liverpool section.

To Jay, Barry and others who seem to be doubting Gana's injury, sorry but I think that's a crock. I saw him cramp immediately on going over the top for that midfield header, and I have never known him to be one to stay down or stall unless genuinely unable to contribute. He's pure warrior, and I must say I don't care much for the aspersions being cast here.

You're reading way too much into seeing the word 'injury' in inverted commas.

Love Gana to bits, me, as my posts since he joined us consistently show.

1. I should be used to the negativity on here but Jesus, some of you wear it like a badge of honour. Wanting us to lose to Man City, Jim B to stick it to Liverpool? Fuck off. Man City will win it anyway, if LFC are the better team, good luck to them. I want EFC to win every game. Shove the bile, it's pitiful.

2. Pickford makes an honest mistake. Shire, overrated, sell him to Man Utd. Talented young goalie highly thought of by experts? Nah, he's crap

3. Gana etc being slated. One of the best defensive midfielders in the country.

4. Same old same old. Did you watch the fucking game? They were out of ideas, their star man hauled off. We matched them at Anfield. We attacked, played with character and ambition. We lost to an absurd fluke goal. LFC are a powerful team with a great home defensive record. You can't see massive improvements, in both approach and display, you know nothing about football.

4. After reading this thread it's time to put to bed this "best fans in the country" shire. Pickford a disgrace? The team a disgrace? No, some of the posters on here are the true embarrassment.

Roll on tonight's game and a steady breaking down of Benitez's Newcastle, who will park the bus. 2-0 prediction, for us.