Liverpool head to Goodison Park for the final time in the Premier League on Saturday.
Everton are set to bid an emotional farewell to the Old Lady as they embark on a new chapter in the club’s history next season.
The move will be a sad one for Liverpool, too. The Reds will lose their Stanley Park neighbours who are moving down to the Bramley-Moore Dock area of the city.
Liverpool have had some brilliant moments at Goodison over the years and as they aim to add one final one this Saturday, we take a look back at their five most memorable Premier League victories at the home of their local Rivals.
Gary McAllister of Liverpool celebrates his dramatic last minute goal during the FA Carling Premiership match against Everton played at Goodison Pa...
16 Apr 2001: Gary McAllister of Liverpool celebrates his dramatic last minute goal during the FA Carling Premiership match against Everton played …
5. Everton 0-3 Liverpool 30th August 2003
Liverpool headed to Goodison in August 2003 still without a win after the season’s opening three matches.
Sitting in 16th position and with just two points from three games, the pressure was on Gerard Houllier’s side to get a result at Everton.
The Toffees had started better and sat in eighth place at the start of proceedings. A certain youngster by the name of Wayne Rooney was making waves at Goodison. But Liverpool let them know who’s boss with a thumping 3-0 win.
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Michael Owen and Harry Kewell were the key men on the day. Owen bagged the first after 39 minutes following a good through-ball from Kewell, before the striker finished nicely just before the hour for a second.
Kewell then rounded off a good day for Liverpool by bagging his first goal for the Reds after good work by Owen.
4. Everton 0-1 Liverpool 19th December 2016
Jurgen Klopp didn’t have the best record at Goodison, winning just twice in eight Premier League visits. But the Liverpool legend’s first visit was a special one.
The Reds came into the game in good form, sitting in second place, six points behind Chelsea.
With Everton 11 points further back in eighth, they weren’t having a bad time of things themselves.
The game played out in incredibly tight fashion until the 94th minute, when the in-form Sadio Mane pounced on Daniel Sturridge’s shot after a rebound off the post.
Mane tapped into an empty net to send the travelling Kop wild amid clouds of red smoke billowing around the celebrations. Iconic.
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3. Everton 1-4 Liverpool 1st December 2021
In a second entry to come during December, Liverpool ran riot at Goodison in the 2021/22 campaign. The Reds were purring on their way to missing out on the quadruple by the narrowest of margins.
Having just stuck four past Southampton, Liverpool hit the same number of goals at Goodison to keep pace with the Premier League’s top two.
By 20 minutes in Liverpool were two up. Jordan Henderson curled in a nice effort before Mohamed Salah swept past Jordan Pickford.
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Everton did get one back through Demarai Gray seven minutes before half-time to set up a contest for the second-half.
However, a classic breakaway goal from Salah and a beautifully taken effort slammed into the roof of the net by Diogo Jota took the game away from the Blues.
2. Everton 1-2 Liverpool 20th October 2007
This was one of the more controversial Merseyside Derbies of recent times, as Dirk Kuyt played the ultimate pantomime villain.
Once again, Liverpool were in much better nick than their neighbours heading into the match, with six points and seven places separating them in the table.
But the battle on the pitch was a hectic and tight affair, with no quarter given by either Rafa Benitez or David Moyes.
Everton started better, though, and went ahead after Sami Hyppia’s unfortunate own goal after 38 minutes. Liverpool came back to life in the second period. A penalty from Kuyt levelled things up just before the hour.
The Dutchman could easily then have been sent off for a flying, two-footed challenge on Phil Neville.
Inevitably, Neville and Kuyt would go on to be the central characters in the game’s final act. Neville handballed on the line from young substitute Lucas Leiva, before Kuyt buried the resulting penalty past Tim Howard and celebrated accordingly with the Liverpool supporters.
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1. Everton 2-3 Liverpool 16th April 2001
It had to be. No list of Merseyside Derbies is complete without the ultimate, last-second win from Liverpool.
The Reds were well on their way to a treble and with Everton stuck in a relegation battle, both teams needed the points.
Liverpool started brilliantly, Emile Heskey firing past Paul Gerrard after five minutes. Everton rallied, though, and Duncan Ferguson blasted the Blues level three minutes before the break.
Markus Babbel then capitalised on an error from David Unsworth to put Liverpool back ahead on 58 minutes, before Unsworth made amends with a typically fierce penalty following the soft awarding of a spot-kick.
With both sets of fans perhaps settling for the point, Liverpool won a free-kick 40 or so yards from goal. Up stepped Gary McAllister, who fooled everyone with a whipped effort that beat Gerrard at his near post. Queue bedlam in the away end for one of Liverpool’s truly iconic Premier League moments.
We’re going to miss it.
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