Liverpool vs Everton LIVE: Premier League team news and line-ups from Merseyside derby

The Scot takes Everton across Stanley Park for the 246th Merseyside derby on Wednesday after overseeing the second most games in charge at Anfield of any manager who has not won there – but smiled that he would mention Sir Bobby Robson, the only visiting coach to play away at Liverpool more often without tasting victory.

Need a reminder of that mad, manic Goodison Park epic? Here’s how Richard Jolly made sense of it all in February:

Time and again, Arne Slot described himself as “rational”. He can often seem the most sensible man in the strange world of Premier League management but his first taste of the Merseyside derby ended with Slot looking his most irrational, with Michael Oliver brandishing the red card after a post-match blast, and the subsequent referee’s report revealing that the Liverpool head coach told the official: “I will f***ing blame you if we don’t win the league.”

As Slot approaches a rematch – with Everton, not Oliver – the aim is to be the calm, measured winner who has taken his team to the brink of the Premier League title.

The end of the Premier League season is looming larger and larger into view, with Liverpool looking to take another big bound towards the title tonight. Rivals Everton make the short trip across Stanley Park for a Merseyside derby that could be an encounter of real consquence.

Kick off at Anfield is at 8pm BST.