Everton on the other hand, are having their worst season under Martinez as they haven’t managed to win even a single game in their last 6 matches.
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From now until the end of the season, you get the feeling Liverpool will be deploying two different sides, playing alternately, to make sure the players are fit for our priority competition: the Europa League.
“Hopefully we have nine games to play, minimum eight”. I think Liverpool’s impressive form will continue, and their improvement in scoring goals could prove too much for a weaker Everton back-line.
Liverpool have Wednesday’s Merseyside derby against Everton and a Europa League semi-final tie against Villarreal either side of the Newcastle match – something Benitez hopes can work to his side’s advantage.
He’s started Liverpool’s last four Premier Leaguer outings, in which he’s found the back of the net three times with an assist to boot.
Juergen Klopp said he wanted his team to handle the emotions and pressure in a professional manner.
A number of fans have started to voice their displeasure over a total lack of consistency and the manager’s near constant public insistence that his team have always played very well and just been robbed or unlucky when dropping points.
“That’s what I expect from this game too – that everybody sees from the first second on that we want to win this game”. While there’s no question that he’s right, he may be in for a rude awakening in his first Merseyside Derby.
“Football is about results, it’s about the results business I would never be stupid enough to look away from that”, he told a news conference.
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“We need our fans more than ever and need to fight every action on the pitch together”. Not since Kevin Campbell scored the only goal in a fiery September clash in 1999 that saw three red cards has the blue half of Merseyside been able to celebrate three points at the home of their local rivals. That victory took them to 51 points – five behind fifth-placed United, who have played a game more, and Klopp believes the Reds can still finish fifth. Liverpool are without their first choice holding midfielders, Emre Can and Jordan Henderson, while Everton go without Phil Jagielka, Tony Hibbert, Tom Cleverley, Tyias Browning, Leighton Baines, Aaron Lennon and Seamus Coleman.
