David Moyes was happy to enliven the flames when he first arrived at Everton in March 2002.
'I will join the People's soccer club. Most people you know in the street are Everton fans, 'he said. Either a genuinely sustained belief or not, I knew what I was doing.
Like this season, he reached a pressure and emotion oven. On his first day, he lost his way to his Finch Farm training center, and when he arrived, Paul Gascoigne demanded to leave. Fortunately, the Scotsman was better to navigate the battle of descent, collecting 13 points in nine games.
He rebuilt the club for 11 years, a Legacy manager not toffees since then has coincided, but he could never decipher the nut throughout the city. In his 25 meseyside derbies in that first period, Moyes only won four. The match became a story of frustration: there was a last semifinal heartbreak of the FA Cup of the last cup in 2012, a constant flow of red cards, 13 losses in total.
Even the joys suffocated to some extent. When Dan Gosling scored a dramatic late winner in 2009, ITV cut an advertising break. Would you like to buy some ICT TAC?
But despite an unstable record, they never won at Anfield, Goodison Park became a kind of strength and the cauldron of many great games.
David Moyes will supervise his 26th Derby de Merseyside tonight and is looking for his fifth victory
He said that Everton was the “town soccer club” when he joined in 2022, establishing the tone for an epic rivalry
Moyes has experienced ups and downs, with crushing losses and impressive victories
Tonight marks the Mersyside 120 and final derby at Goodison Park. Storm Darragh did everything possible to stop it, and the accessory was delayed from December, but the maelstrom in the field could be even more extreme knowing the story of Moyes with Liverpool.
His first meseyside derby arrived in Anfield in December 2002 and ended 0-0, but established the tone for truculent affairs to come.
Steven Gerrard was retrospectively prohibited for three games after what was described as a lack of “blood spirit” about Gary Naysmith, his two -foot pencil, two feet late to connect with the knee and the thing of the Scotch.
It is not necessary to say that the next game in Goodison in April 2003 reached sizzling temperatures. Liverpool won 2-1 but had to go through wars. Both David Weir and Naysmith were red carded. Everton considered a prohibition for life for a fan of the toffee who assaulted the field and threw a scarf to Salif Diao, which sounds quite picturesque 22 years later.
In the first 25 Moyes games against Liverpool, there were no less than 14 red cards, 10 for Everton (although Jack Rodwell was terminated). Three occasions, nine men were cut for their unpleasant game.
Perhaps that does not surprise that the accessory in general has most of the red cards of any Premier League accessory with 23.
Those first years brought some immeasurable maximums. In Goodison in December 2004, Lee Carsley left Chris Kirkland Statuesque while destroying a 20-yard piledriver at home to seal a 1-0 victory. That result left Everton 12 points ahead of his rivals in the city and the second in the league table. The only pleasant aspect of the day for Liverpool fans was a part -time penalty shooting among Santa's imitators.
Moyes was ecstatic. “We have to be with a shout of the title, right?” He said later. In the end they finished fourth, enough for a third place of classification of the Champions League, although Villarreal killed his dreams the following summer.
The spirits exploded in April 2003 in Goodison Park, and Salif Diao ended with the dreaded scarf treatment
Lee Carsley scored an impressive long -range effort for one of the four Moyes victories in December 2004
Pepe Reina practically gave the ball to Andy Johnson when Everton won 3-0 in September 2006
Then, in September 2006, Everton mistreated Liverpool 3-0 at home. Moyes had assured their greatest victory in Derby in 42 years. Tim Cahill scored one of his five goals in the match, while Andy Johnson pocketed twice.
Johnson could barely believe his fate when, for the final goal, Pepe Reina practically placed the ball in the head in one of the strangest goals that fans could see.
Moyes rarely gave Liverpool an easy game in Walton, that historical stadium full of life in the stands and buzzing with intensity in the grass.
That said, the reds had the advantage. He has won four of his 12 games against Liverpool in Goodison, drawing one, but losing seven.
In September 2008, Liverpool was not reproducible when they were left without 2-0 winners. Fernando Torres scored twice to give Liverpool his best beginning of the Premier League at that time and Queen did not have to save.
Moyes sometimes felt that luck was against them. He complained about the governed goal of James Beattie in a 3-1 defeat in December 2005, but they really had just faced a good Liverpool team.
Everton did not help themselves, with Mikel Arteta and Phil Neville were sent. It was a similar story in the reverse match in Anfield in March 2006. Neville scored his own goal and Andy Van der Meyde received his marching orders, just like Gerrard.
But Liverpool showed its superior quality thanks to Luis García's masterful lob and Harry Kewell's Screamer, extending his winning career to nine games.
Moyes saw his stars sent 10 times in 25 games, although Jack Rodwell's red was terminated
Dan Gosling obtained an late extra time winner in 2009, but the ITV cameras cut
Gerrard was a constant scourge against Moyes, packing seven against his Everton team of the first era.
The Scuser stole the program two days before Moyes's 10th anniversary with a hat-trick in Anfield in March 2012.
A month later, Liverpool twisted the knife when they ended with the hopes of the Everton FA Cup in front of 87.00 fans in Wembley, Andy Carroll scored a late header practically with its horsetail to send Liverpool to the final with a victory 2-1, leaving the hands of Toffee fans attached to their faces like molasses.
The derby is never over until it ends, just ask Divok Origi. You can also ask Dan Gosling, who in 2009 was recorded in Everton's folklore with a winner two minutes since the end of extra time in a fourth Round repetition of the FA Cup. It is not bad for a 19 -year -old.
Unfortunately, ITV lost his goal. The channel was cut to a scheduled advertising break, which shows a TIC TACS commercial.
Then begins a very serious ad for the action for the children, but the bosses decided to truncate this to return to the action in Goodison, where Gosling was buried under a battery of his teammates. Fortunately, fans could see repetition.
The clubs have tracked ups and downs together. Kenny Dalglysh returned to the Anfield refuge for the first time in 20 years in January 2011 and played a 2-2 thriler that left them both four points above the descent zone.
It is almost unthinkable to imagine Liverpool in such position after 22 games today, but that was a different moment.
Luis Suarez made fun of Moyes in 2012 after the head of the Everton accused him of diving too much
Moyes could never hack Anfield, not winning in any of his 13 attempts there as Chief of Toffee
Andy Carroll broke Everton Hearts in 2012 when he scored the winner in the Copa FA semifinals
The most recent Moyes meseyside derby at Goodison Park arrived in October 2012, a 2-2 draw. He was acrimonious before the first whistle.
The Scottish warned in the preparation of the game that Luis Suarez could move away from sports people with his diving and histrionic.
'It will move away followers if they believe that players are connecting their way to the results. People like to see things done correctly, '' he said.
How did the Uruguayan respond? Celebrating its goal with an immersion against Moyes after putting Liverpool 2-0.
But the chief of the Toffee laughed for the last time when his team came from behind, and the late winner of Suárez was incorrectly ruled out.
You could argue that there used to be more danger to derbies, when the teams were closer to the table, but that is not necessarily the case.
Everton fans sang 'You lost the League in Goodison Park' last season after pouting the reds to the 2-0 sword, all but ending the hopes of Jurgen Klopp of a fairy tale that ends with his mandate.
Before tonight the game, the 24th Merseyside derby, Moyes has suggested that it will not be filled with the same fire and thunder as on previous occasions. Maybe he has softened after all.
Steven Gerrard was a constant scourge against Everton and put seven Moyes teams, including a 2012 hat-trick
Fernando Torres also had joy against the first Everton de Moyes, scoring twice in September 2008
Moyes will take care of his 26th meseyside derby and the last one at Goodison Park tonight
'When they were Jamie Carragher and Steven Gerrard (playing for Liverpool), it was a case who was going to kick who really first. So it was. (I have) great memories of that, “he said.
'I don't think games are now played in such a way where you can be so, I think the referees are different, but it is a great derby.
'It has been a brilliant game over the years and there are many, many people who have enjoyed these games.
They have been fantastic since I returned. Goodison has always had a really difficult and intimidating atmosphere and is a difficult place to play. I have had good night here as a manager and I hope to have more to come.
'The followers have always played an important role. They have had a difficult period, but I hope they can see some light at the end of the tunnel.