Premier League 2025-26: Gravenberch, Ekitike goals help Liverpool to keep a perfect record against Everton

Liverpool maintained a perfect start to his Premier League season when Ryan Gravenberch scored and set a first half goal in a 2-1 victory over Everton on Saturday in the Merseyside Derby.

Liverpool tries to win successive league titles for the first time for the first time since the 1980s and is unbeaten in five games.

Liverpool was listless and sloppy for large pieces of the second half and Idrissa Gueye scored in the 58th minute for the Toffees, who lost at Leeds for the first time since their opener.

For the first time since 1933-37, Liverpool has won five consecutive home games against the blues. Since 1999, Everton has not won a competition at Anfield attended by Fans, the only victory since then closed doors in 2021 during the Coronavirus Pandemie.

Everton -Manager David Moyes continued Winless in 23 games at Anfield with the Toffees, Manchester United, Sunderland and West Ham.

Liverpool’s top two summer signs, Alexander Isak and Florian Wirtz, came in as a second half of replacements, Wirtz in the 61st and Isak in the 67th.

Gravenberch posted Liverpool Vooruit in the 10th minute of the 247th Merseyside Derby when Mohamed Salah held a one-hop pass in his path. The 23-year-old defending midfielder extended his right leg and on the Half Volley the ball lifted over the vast arm of goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.

Gravenberch made a perfect passage in the 29th and Hugo Ekitike threw the ball through Pickford’s legs and in the distant pole.

Gueye scored on a long -distance shot after Iliman Ndiaye tapped the cross of Jack Grealish. Just shy of his 36th birthday next Friday, Gueye became the second oldest Everton player who scored in a Merseyside Derby.

Fans of Liverpool serenaded Everton supporters repeatedly with songs of «You have not won a trophy since 1995.»

Published on September 20, 2025