With Liverpool previously winless in their last four league games, any victory in the Merseyside derby would have been most welcome. There were many aspects of the match which will have pleased Jurgen Klopp though.
His team had their highest win percentage for duels in a Premier League match this season (and best against a team not called Rangers). The Reds’ counter attacking was also in fine working order, with the key partnership of Darwin Nunez and Mohamed Salah combining to break the deadlock.
But arguably most important of all was the word nil next to the word Everton in the scoreline. By shutting out the Blues, Liverpool collected just their sixth clean sheet of the league campaign. Only in 1992/93 (three) and 2004/05 (five) has the club had fewer after 21 games in the Premier League era. If this campaign is to end in European glory in Istanbul as the latter season did, a few more opposition blanks will be needed.
