EVERTON V LIVERPOOL: STAT ATTACK

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All the relevant facts and figures ahead of the 206th Merseyside derby with LFC statistician Ged Rea.

EVERTON v LIVERPOOL
  
Overall league record: Liverpool 65 wins, Everton 56 wins, Draws 55.
  
At Everton: Liverpool 28 wins, Everton 33 wins, Draws 27.
  
The last meeting between the clubs saw them play out a goalless draw at Anfield back in February.
  
In the first of last season's meetings, following a break for Internationals, Everton defeated Liverpool 3-0 at Goodison. Tim Cahill opened the scoring with Andy Johnson scoring twice.
  
Liverpool have won 79 of the 205 meetings in all competitions with Everton winning 64 and 61 ending in stalemate.
  
In League meetings today will see the 177th clash. The Reds lead those wins by 65-56.
  
Liverpool have a total of 16 points from their opening eight games this season. Only once in the last 11 seasons have they started better - in 2002-03 they had 18 points.
  
Liverpool have lost just two of the last nine Derbies at Goodison winning five of the last seven.
  
The Reds have lost just two of the last 15 meetings home and away.
  
The last player to score a hat-trick in a 'Derby' was Ian Rush. He scored four on this ground in a 5-0 win in November 1982. Dixie Dean is the last Everton player to achieve the feat scoring all his sides goals in a 3-1 win in September 1931.
  
Ian Rush in that above game became the first and so far only Liverpool player to score a league hat-trick at Goodison.
  
John Arne Riise scored his first league goal for Liverpool at Goodison in September 2001.
  
Steven Gerrard is the only player in Derby history to be sent off twice.
  
Six of the seven goals scored by Fernando Torres have come in the second half of games.
  
Javier Mascherano's last appearance for West Ham was against Everton at Goodison last season.
  
This is the 22nd time Liverpool have been asked to kick off at this time on a Saturday for the benefit of television in the last 25 months.
  
Liverpool are one draw short of recording 1,000 in their league history.
  
The Reds are one of only three teams unbeaten away from home in the Premiership. The others are Arsenal and Blackburn Rovers.
  
They have conceded just one goal away from home in the league. No team in England has a better record though Darlington have also conceded a solitary goal.
  
Liverpool could have possibly six 'Derby' debutants in the game- Fernando Torres, Andriy Voronin, Yossi Benayoun, Alvaro Arbeloa, Ryan Babel and Javier Mascherano.

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The Reds have kept only one clean sheet in the last seven league visits to Goodison.
  
They have scored 14 goals on the last seven league visits to Everton.
  
Only one Liverpool player has scored an own goal in a league fixture against the Blues - Neil Ruddock in 1997.
  
Both sides biggest league win on this ground has been by a 5-0 scoreline. Everton recorded theirs in April 1909 and Liverpool in November 1982.
  
19 players have been dismissed in Merseyside Derby history - seven from Liverpool and 12 Evertonians. Seven have received their marching orders in the last nine clashes. Of the current players Steven Gerrard (twice), Thomas Gravesen, Phil Neville, Mikel Arteta and Andy van der Meyde have been sent off.
  
Only three current Everton players have scored in a Merseyside Derby - Tim Cahill and Andy Johnson have two and Lee Carsley one.
  
Andy Johnson last season became the first Everton player to score twice at Goodison in a League Derby since Alan Ball in August 1966.
  
The 3-0 scoreline at Goodison 13 months ago was the first time Everton had scored more than twice in a league meeting with the Reds in 80 games stretching back to that game in 1966.
  
Everton have come from behind to win a Derby only once since the war-that came in 1992 when Peter Beardsley scored the winner.
  
Possible Everton Derby debutants - Leighton Baines, Phil Jagielka, Stephen Pienaar and Yakubu.
  
David Moyes has managed a winning side against Liverpool only twice in 11 tussles.
  
Everton have not scored more than once in successive league meetings at Goodison since 1994-95.
  
Tim Howard has kept clean sheets in both his appearances for Everton against Liverpool.
  
Four of Joleon Lescott's five goals this season have come from headers.
  
James McFadden is one goal short of 50 in his club career.
  
The Blues have not managed back to back top half finishes since the start of the Premier League.
  
Everton are the best behaved team in the Premiership with just eight yellow cards so far.
  
Three players have played in all of the Blues 12 games this season - Joleon Lescott, Phil Neville and Victor Anichebe.
  
Everton have been awarded just seven penalties in post-war league derbies with five being scored and two missed.
  
Current League Positions:
  
Liverpool: Pld 8 Won 4 Drawn 4 Lost 0 Goals For 14 Against 4 Pts 16 Position: 4th.
  
Everton: Pld 9 Won 4 Drawn 1 Lost 4 Goals For 12 Against 11 Pts 13 Position: 10th.
  
Leading scorers this season: (League in brackets)
  
Liverpool: Torres 7 (4), Voronin 4 (3), Kuyt 3 (0), Alonso 2 (2), Benayoun 2 (1), Babel 1 (1), Crouch 1 (0), Gerrard 1
(1), Hyypia 1 (0), Sissoko 1 (1), own goals 1 (1).

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