Liverpool vs. Everton: Team News, Live Stream, TV Info, Ticket News

Jurgen Klopp will get his first taste of the Merseyside derby on Wednesday night, as his Liverpool side welcome city rivals Everton to Anfield, with both sides looking to boost their fortunes in the Premier League.

Klopp’s predecessor, Brendan Rodgers, was dismissed just hours after the last derby between the Reds and the Toffees, having watched his side take a 1-1 draw from Goodison Park, with help from a Danny Ings header.

Now it is Klopp’s counterpart, Roberto Martinez, who is under pressure, and with Everton’s poor form continuing throughout 2016, defeat to Liverpool could worsen the fracture in his relationship with the club’s supporters.

Everton are without a win in five games, drawing their last three encounters against Watford, Crystal Palace and Southampton, respectively, while Liverpool are finding form at this crucial stage, buoyed by wins over Borussia Dortmund and Bournemouth in the past week.

As both managers will surely recognise, however, form takes a backseat for the Merseyside derby—so could Martinez grab a morale-boosting win at Anfield, or will Klopp’s resurgent Reds continue their rise?

 

Date: Wednesday, 20 April

Time: 8 p.m. BST / 3 p.m. ET

Venue: Anfield, Liverpool

TV Info: Sky Sports 1 (UK only) / NBCSN (U.S. only)

Live Stream: Sky Go (UK only) / NBC Sports Live Extra (U.S. only)

 

Form Lines (Last 5 Games)

Liverpool: D-D-W-W-W

Everton: L-L-D-D-D

 

Team News

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After naming a much-changed side for Sunday’s trip to take on Bournemouth at Dean Court, Klopp is able to select from a rested and refreshed Liverpool squad as he looks for victory in his first Merseyside derby.

Divock Origi trudged off the pitch that afternoon with a back injury, while Kolo Toure was withdrawn in the second half after suffering cramp—but addressing reporters on Tuesday afternoon, Klopp revealed Origi was fit to return as he continued to navigate a congested schedule:

In the game against Bournemouth, I think—and what I have heard so far is—it was cramp with Kolo.

Divock was only a little bit [of a problem] with the back—maybe from sitting on the bench! It was not a real issue.

He felt it a little bit in the game and so we left him out of training yesterday but that was only not to take a risk. So that is OK.

Before the [Bournemouth] game, Martin Skrtel had a little groin problem but with all the other things [players], there’s nothing new.

If Toure and Skrtel are both out, the centre-back pair will join Christian Benteke, Jordan Rossiter, Danny Ings and Joe Gomez on the sidelines.

Most concerning, however, is the continued absence of key midfielders Emre Can and Jordan Henderson, who are both set to miss the rest of the season through injury—but otherwise, the German finds himself in a strong position at the business end of 2015/16.

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Meanwhile, Martinez finds his squad’s miserable form compounded by a number of troubling injuries, particularly with key defensive duo Phil Jagielka and Seamus Coleman set to miss out on Wednesday.

Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, the Spaniard provided an …

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