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MOTD: Liverpool 4-0 Everton

By on April 20, 2016

Everton have had little joy in the Merseyside derby in recent years and tonight Liverpool inflicted another painful 4-0 victory upon Roberto Martinez’s men. It was Everton’s joint heaviest derby loss in the Premier League era and likely sucked away what remaining confidence they had heading into a FA Cup Semifinal outing to Wembley.

Divock Origi spread discord through Everton’s back-line and Liverpool netted two goals in quick succession on the brink of the half. Ramiro Funes Mori was sent off for a nasty challenge on Origi on the other side of the half and the Belgian forward had to be replaced by Daniel Sturridge. Everton saw no light from thereon out and Sturridge bagged his own before Philippe Coutinho curled home a lovely winner.

The Toffees failed to find a target on a single occasion and just when Martinez needed to rise up to salvage something from their woeful campaign, his team slumped to even lower heights. When they needed to recollect the dressing room and organize for battle, they fell apart from nearly the opening whistle.

James Milner bagged his eleventh assist of the season, more than any other Premier League player. He has been revitalized into a more exciting, attacking player under Klopp and ran rampant in behind Everton’s shoddy defense.

Adam Lallana got in behind Everton’s back-line with ease just five minutes in on the end of Coutinho’s simple lobbed pass. Joel Robles came up big to make a vital stop with his feet and also made important stops to deny Roberto Firmino and Divock Origi.

The opener finally came in the forty-third minute when James Milner burst by Aaron Lennon down the right wing. Lennon, caught out of position, stuck out a foot to bring Milner down. Although the English midfielder has been notoriously poor at set pieces this year, he stepped up to take the free-kick and sent it short to Coutinho on the edge of the box. Although Everton cleared their lines as far as the corner flag, Milner recollected the ball and floated a lovely cross back into the middle, where Origi rose up to head home.

Liverpool scored another before the end of the half as Milner spliced through Everton’s entire back-line with a simple one-two with Lallana down the left. He clipped a cross into the middle and Mamadou Sakho rose up to power a free header past Robles from point-blank rose.

Lucas picked off a weak pass to slip Origi in to bag Everton’s third and it was all but over after Funes Mori’s red card.

By the hour mark, Everton majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri and deputy vice-chairman Jon Woods had seen enough and the traveling brigade departed en masse.

Coutinho whipped a gorgeous effort into the bottom-right corner to top off the rout.

Said Martinez, per Everton’s official website: “Nobody deserved to experience that – no fan or player deserved to be in that situation or chain of events. We need to move on quickly and repay our fans with a proper performance and showing in the semi-final of the FA Cup.”

The grim reality is, though, that much of their pain was self-inflicted.

Martinez continued: “We tried to regroup and the first action is the red card. From that point on the game becomes a non-event and a horrible, horrible experience especially with the big game we have around the corner.”

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Alex Morgan, founder of Football Every Day, lives and breaths football from the West Coast of the United States in California. Aside from founding Football Every Day in January of 2013, Alex has also launched his own journalism career and hopes to help others do the same with FBED. He covers the San Jose Earthquakes as a beat reporter for QuakesTalk.com and his work has also been featured in the BBC's Match of the Day Magazine.