Hello and welcome to the Merseyside Derby clash between Everton and Liverpool from Goodison Park. To say this encounter is huge is an understatement. Everton fans are pinching themselves - top of the table with four wins from four. Champions Liverpool come into the contest on the back of an humiliating 7-2 loss at Aston Villa - surely there is no better time for the Toffees to end their 10-year wait, to the day, for a derby victory over the side from across Stanley Park.

NO MORE STALEMATES! The last three Premier League meetings between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park have finished 0-0 – no specific fixture in English top-flight history has ever finished goalless in four consecutive matches before.

They couldn't, could they?

Landmark day for the boy from Brazil.

HEAD TO HEAD: Everton are winless in 19 Premier League meetings with Liverpool (D11 L8), since a 2-0 win in October 2010. Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 22 meetings with Everton in all competitions – against no side have they ever had a longer run without defeat in their history (also 22 vs Aston Villa between 1981-1992). Seven of the last eight Premier League meetings between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park have finished level, with Liverpool winning the other 1-0 in December 2016.

ALLISON OUT, THIAGO IN, GOMES RETURNS: As expected, Allison is not fit to return in goal for Liverpool, meaning it is a big afternoon for Adrian after his error-strewn display at Villa. Thiago comes in for his first Premier League start, while Sadio Mane also returns to the starting XI. Joel Matip lines up alongside Virgil van Dijk at the back. Everton make two changes to the side that beat Brighton 4-2 last time out as midfielders Allan and Andre Gomes come in, replacing Tom Davies and Gylfi Sigurdsson in the starting XI. New signing Ben Godfrey is named on the substitutes bench.

TEAM NEWS - EVERTON: Pickford, Digne, Coleman, Keane, Mina, Allan, Doucoure, Gomes, Rodriguez, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin...Subs: Olsen, Delph, Sigurdsson, Iwobi, Bernard, Godfrey, Davies. /// LIVERPOOL: Adrian, Alexander-Arnold, Robertson, Matip, Van Dijk, Fabinho, Thiago, Henderson, Mane, Salah, Firmino. Subs: Kelleher, Wijnaldum, Milner, Gomez, Jones, Minamino, Jota.

The teams are in... SOME BIG NEWS