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Last-gasp derby error ensures away day blues continue to haunt Everton

how to live healthy and longevity : https://goo.gl/3L1CLn how to learn super speed? https://goo.gl/cPZGKt FIFA's Secret 19: https://goo.gl/FfPqWF Jordan Pickford held up his hands in apology to the aghast away section after gifting the 232nd Merseyside derby to Liverpool. Other Everton players lay on the pitch, stared into the middle distance or, in the case of Lucas Digne, stormed down the tunnel pushing aside every offer of consolation as he went. Liverpool’s 96th-minute winning goal had been freakish but the outcome, the pain and regret, were all-too familiar for their Merseyside rivals. Anfield remains Everton’s venue of nightmares. This was, as Jürgen Klopp had predicted, the Liverpool manager’s toughest assignment in a Merseyside derby and far removed from his first experience, when a 4-0 defeat of Roberto Martínez’s shambolic Everton side left him bemoaning a second half that was “no real fight any more”. This was a fight from the first minute to the 96th, when the England goalkeeper pawed a Virgil van Dijk miscue that was sailing out of play back on to his crossbar and on to the head of the grateful Divock Origi. Origi, a potential transfer target for Everton next month, duly nodded home to send Klopp sprinting across the field of play, Liverpool back to within two points of Manchester City and their local rivals into despair. The last time Everton savoured a win in these quarters was in 1999. With errors of this magnitude and gilt-edged chances squandered, the drought seems less surprising by the year. Pickford started and finished the derby carelessly, slicing a routine clearance out for a corner in the opening seconds before being trapped by uncertainty at the very last, but performed well in-between with one stop from Xherdan Shaqiri particularly impressive. The in-between will be forgotten. Errors rarely escape punishment at this level and for all Everton’s improvement and Liverpool’s late fortune – “lucky, lucky, lucky Liverpool” as Marco Silva described them – the majority were served up by those in royal blue. The visible lift in their performance and adventure at Anfield offers meagre consolation in the aftermath of a defeat of this nature. There has been clear improvement during the first five months of Silva’s reign without the statement victory against a top-six club that would enhance his side’s confidence and make the rest of the Premier League take notice. It is a deep-rooted flaw that precedes the current Everton manager and dates so long it appears to grip the club’s psyche in the build-up to such assignments, Anfield especially. In the past 10 years alone Everton have won only five of 64 away games against the leading pack – losing 36 and drawing 23. Their most recent victory at a so-called big six club came at Manchester United in December 2013 – their first win at Old Trafford in the past 26 years – while it has been eight years since a win at Manchester City, 10 at Tottenham, 19 at Liverpool, 22 at Arsen

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