For David Moyes, Anfield has become the stuff of nightmares.
Twenty one matches managed there, no wins, 14 defeats and 36 goals conceded – and the Everton boss isn’t expecting life to get any easier when the Toffees visit runaway league leaders Liverpool in the Premier League on Wednesday.
Moyes, 61, whose Everton side are 36 points behind Liverpool, said: “We might be further away from Liverpool than we have ever been at the moment.
“When we left here, we were much closer to Liverpool, we were competitive, competing around the same areas in the league. At the moment it is probably the biggest gulf between the two clubs.”
A look at the history books shows Moyes is right. This is the biggest points gap there has ever been before a Merseyside derby that Moyes has been in charge of Everton in.
Moyes’ 19 Premier League games without a win at Anfield is also the longest any manager has gone in the competition without victory at the ground.
A dozen of those matches came during his first spell in charge of Everton, with his side gaining seven draws and seven defeats. He also lost in his only match at Anfield when Manchester United boss and again when in charge of Sunderland.
While West Ham manager, he was in charge of seven games at Liverpool, losing them all, with his most recent visit there seeing the Reds secure a 5-1 thrashing in the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup in December 2023.
He said: “Yeh. I don’t want it [the record]. I want to win. I want to make sure I get rid of it.
“Everytime we go there, it presents another chance to do so.
“I would be lying if I said I look forward to going there all the time because it is such a hard place to get results. It is nothing to do with the surroundings or the pitch, they have always produced good teams.”
