Multiple reports indicate the game will kick off at 2pm on Sunday, April 19, though the exact year is not specified. This fixture marks a historic venue change from Goodison Park, where the previous encounter ended in a 2-2 draw with red cards for Arne Slot, Curtis Jones, and Abdoulaye Doucoure. Liverpool won the first derby of the season at Anfield 2-1 in September.
According to Daily Mirror - Main, former Everton winger Aaron Lennon described the Merseyside and North London derbies as very similar and intense, noting the palpable tension within the clubs. Everton are firmly in contention for European football, while Liverpool are nursing wounds after a Champions League exit to Paris Saint-Germain. Liverpool remain within striking distance of Manchester United and Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Until you play in them games, you don't realise - I was the same. Going into them, you've heard about the Merseyside derby but until you're on that pitch, it grabs you, you are flying into tackles and doing things you wouldn't normally. You're pumped up, you notice it in the warm-up that it is the big one, you feel it. It's up there, it's fierce, I played in the North London one that's fierce as well. They're very similar, it's not just outside but within the football club. At Everton you knew the tension, you've got the old school, the kit men, the staff they're all Evertonians. There's been times where we've come in, we've lost and everyone's fuming then they'd go, 'at least the Reds got beat as well', you could see how much they disliked each other. It's similar, they're great, the atmosphere goes up a notch, they're brilliant to play in.