The best moments for Everton under Lampard have involved counter-pressing and high-energy stuff. Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp and Everton manager Frank Lampard. Much will depend in the Merseyside derby on Everton’s ability not just to match the pressure from Liverpool but to assert their own.

There was a significant moment on Wednesday night for observers of the styling, the optics, the physical theatre of Liverpool FC during the Jürgen Klopp years. With 83 minutes gone at Anfield and Newcastle’s players maintaining a fine pitch of drilled defensive aggression – plus, of course, some equally fine-drilled defensive time‑wasting – Kostas Tsimikas, Fabinho and Harvey Elliott produced a three-man blitz on the left side of the Liverpool midfield, nipping and snapping at Joe Willock’s heels and drawing a free‑kick 40 yards from goal. Read more