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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Michael Butler

Everton’s mood is Green Day. For Liverpool it’s more Dire Straits

The freedom of Goodison Park, earlier.
The freedom of Goodison Park, earlier. Photograph: Paul Ellis/AFP/Getty Images

REDS GET THE BLUES

“You lost the league at Goodison Park,” serenaded the Everton fans as Liverpool’s players trudged off the pitch on Wednesday evening after their 2-0 defeat, the footballing equivalent of Nelson Muntz giving his teacher a wedgie and yelling: “Ha Ha!” And while Football Daily is convinced that Jürgen Klopp understands the literal translation of schadenfreude, it’s rare that the Liverpool manager has been on the receiving end of the concept. This defeat at Goodison was the first and last of Klopp’s nine-year tenure, and Liverpool’s first defeat at their neighbours’ ground since 2010.

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