For David Moyes, Anfield has become nightmares.
Twenty -one games achieved there, without victories, 14 losses and 36 admitted goals, and the head of the Everton does not expect life to become easier when the toffees visit the leaders of the league outside Liverpool in the Premier League on Wednesday.
Moyes, 61, whose Everton team is 36 points from Liverpool, said: “We could be further from Liverpool than we have been at this time.”
“When we went here, we were much closer to Liverpool, we were competitive, competing in the same areas of the League. At this time it is probably the biggest gulf between the two clubs.”
A look at History Moyes’s books is right. With him as Everton’s manager, this is the largest points gap before a meseyside derby.
Before this season, the biggest points gap before a meseyside derby in which Moyes was involved was the 18 points that Everton followed the reds in March 2006, and this will be the sixth time the difference has been in double figures.
The Everton de Moyes has actually been ahead of Liverpool before eight of those 19 derbies, with them levels in both derbies in 2010/11.
There has only been a greater difference in points that is before any meseyside derby twice in the history of the Premier League, with the Liverpool leading Everton by 47 points in April 2022 and in 45 in June 2020.
Everton also followed Liverpool by the same margin of 36 points in April last season.
In terms of finance, the Gulf is also quite large, and the Everton squad costs in the £ 200 million region to meet, compared to Liverpool around £ 550m.
The 19 Premier League games of Moyes without a victory in Anfield is also the longest that any manager has gone to the competition without the victory on the ground.
A dozen of those games arrived during their first spell by Everton, with their team winning seven draws and five losses. He also lost in his only game in Anfield when Manchester United Boss and again when he was in charge of Sunderland.
While West Ham’s manager was in charge of seven games in Liverpool, losing them all, with his most recent visit there when he saw the Reds ensure a beating of 5-1 in the quarterfinals of the Carabao Cup in December 2023.
He said: “Yes. I don’t want [the record]. I want to win. I want to make sure to get rid of him.
“Every time we go there, he presents another opportunity to do it.
“I would lie if I said that I hope to go there all the time because it is such a difficult place to get results. It has nothing to do with the surroundings or the tone, they have always produced good teams.”
