That’s all from me. Thanks for reading and for your emails. Congratulations to Liverpool. Enjoy the points, Reds. I hope they make you very happy. Cheers!

Arne Slot, Liverpool’s manager, speaks:

They are a very difficult team to play against. Their very good manager has brought them back to life. Their appetite to defend their box, a threat on the counter attack and long throws. Our boys showed immense character to come through today. We created much more than at Goodison. They are really good at blocking shots, and there is no point crossing because their centre backs are so dominant.

Jota scored a great goal. I would be frustrated if we conceded that goal, but the referee applied the rules perfectly. We are in a very good position.

As advertised, here are the five other match reports from tonight’s Premier League matches.

“Getting a combined high here in Naples by watching an Ozric Tentacles gig and getting the good news of a Liverpool victory from your esteemed organ,” writes Colum Fordham. “Much needed after Liverpool’s recent setbacks in the Champions League and that underwhelming (for us fans) final”.

Ya big show off, Colum. Naples! Rock Music! And now this!

Regarding the potential offside for Diaz in the lead up to Liverpool’s goal, Sky Sports have found the official terminology of the rules, and this perhaps explains why VAR did not disallow the winner.

Despite being a distraction for Tarkowski, Diaz did not move towards the goal and the rule states that VAR should only intervene if a player is “clearly attempting to play a ball which is close when this action impacts on an opponent”. Diaz did not do that.

That said, I think it’s a grey area as Tarkowski was obviously affected by Diaz. Moyes was evidently not happy.

Everton manager David Moyes is next to face the cameras:

The player behind Tarkowski [Diaz] is clearly offside. That’s a very easy decision to make. Liverpool were the better team but we showed great resilience, made some chances. It’s just gut-wrenching that we have lost to a goal that we don’t feel is deserved.

This is our first defeat in 10 games. Liverpool are the best team in the league. Maybe in the future, we’ll be a bit closer to them.

“I’m not sure why Pickford gets to kick Nunez and nothing happens because the whistle has gone,” emails Gareth Wilson. “Pretty sure kicking other people isn’t allowed at any time in football”.

That’s a fair point.

Liverpool’s Virgil van Dijk speak to the cameras:

Everton make it very difficult for you. They have a certain way of playing. You have to be ready for it. They are very direct. The first half was not the greatest but Diogo made a fantastic goal. There wasn’t a hangover from the Goodison derby. We didn’t watch much video from that game.

Goalscorer Diogo Jota is also there to chime in:

Hopefully this gives us a bit of momentum. I want this game to start a good run for me that could be helpful for the team. The only way is to start winning games.

Here are a run down of the five other Premier League results. Match reports will be live on the website shortly.

Bournemouth 1-2 Ipswich Town
Brighton 0-3 Aston Villa
Manchester City 2-0 Leicester City
Newcastle 2-1 Brentford
Southampton 1-1 Crystal Palace

Slot with a rare show of emotion there, fistpumping his way down the tunnel. This was not a vintage performance but Liverpool’s fans are ecstatic, as well they might be. Not only do they take the bragging rights, but this is what the result does to the table.

90+6 min: Corner to Everton! And here comes Pickford, up from the back! But the deep delivery is wayward and a whistle is sounded for a foul. Liverpool are nearly there!

90+5 min: Everton are finally starting to pump it long. A searching cross to the back post is expertly cleared by Liverpool’s makeshift right-back, Jones. Oooof.

90+4 min: Liverpool make another change: Endo for Salah.

90+2 min: Everyone looks knackered in fairness. This has not been the highest quality Merseyside derby, but both sides have run around a lot.

90 min: Six minutes added on! Everton had better get a shift on!

87 min: A bizarre sequence! Iroegbunam clatters Szoboszlai in midfield and referee Sam Barrott awards a free-kick. But the whistle is not heard and some of the players play on, with Pickford rushing out to boot Nunez. The ball is already dead, but had it not been, that would surely have been a penalty with Nunez just nipping in to beat the Everton goalkeeper to the ball. Both Pickford and Nunez protest their innocence, before the referee explains that the whistle had already gone. In the aftermath Nunez is booked! I think that was for unsporting behaviour: the Uruguayan rolled back onto the pitch to receive treatment after Pickford’s kick. That slowed the game down.

85 min: More changes from both sides. For Liverpool, Diaz comes off for Gakpo. Everton bring on a striker, Chermiti, for Doucouré.

83 min: Everton simply can’t get any time on the ball. They have had 20% possession in this second half.

81 min: Diaz goes close! In not dissimilar circumstances to Jota’s goal, the Colombian cuts nicely inside from the left and flashed a fierce shot towards Pickford’s near post. But this time, an Everton defender (Branthwaite?) got an important block in.

79 min: Salah has been sooooooo quiet. Not sure I’ve mentioned him more than once?

Curtis Jones, on the other hand, has been very tidy at right back.

77 min: Everton respond with a triple change of their own: Broja for Beto, Alcaraz for Young and Garner for Iroegbunam.

75 min: Liverpool make their first change: Jota is replaced by Nunez. Probably a sensible thing with the Portuguese on a booking.

73 min: “If that goal was offside, let’s say Tarkowski was testing the quality of his studs on MacAllister’s kneecap,” emails Kev The Poet.

Absolutely! Tarkowski should have been sent off. But I do think Diaz was offside in the run up to that Liverpool goal. Anyway, onwards.

71 min: After a Konaté error, Everton win two corners. Kelleher punches behind the first and from the second, Mac Allister wrestles with Tarkowski at the back post! It’s a complete mis-match, obviously, but Mac Allister makes no attempt to play the ball. There’s probably not enough for an Everton penalty, but Liverpool were living dangerously. And being so dominant in this game, they have little need to do that.

68 min: Liverpool have dominated the ball since the goal: a whopping 89% of possession here. Everton make a change: Harrison off, the talented Ndiaye on.

66 min: “What!? Diaz was just standing there,” Joe Pearson emails regarding my comments about the idea of Liverpool’s goal being disallowed for offside. “[Diaz] made no play for the ball or interfered with Tarkowski in any way. It’s not his fault that Tarkowski makes an absolutely dreadful clearance. No way that should have been ruled out”.

I would argue that Tarkowski would never have gone to ground, sliding as he did to clear the ball. He would either have controlled it, or let the ball run through to Pickford. Diaz’s presence in an offside position hurried him into that slide. Watch it again.

64 min: Jota is unlucky not to win a free-kick deep in Everton territory and gives the linesman both barrels after he awards the visitors a throw-in. The Liverpool goalscorer is cautioned for his subsequent dissent, which is probably justified. It should also be said that Jota started sarcastically applauding the officials after his yellow card was issued. It would have been very petty, but the Liverpool forward was maybe a little lucky not to get a second yellow, there!

61 min: Everton must respond now, and they have half an hour to find an equaliser.

59 min: Having watched a few replays, I’m absolutely astounded that goal has not been chalked off! Diaz is clearly offside in the lead up, and his presence there makes Tarkowski make an errant clearance. From there, Liverpool finish the move well, but it’s remarkable that that wasn’t brought back by VAR. Sorry to be a spoil-sport, I just can’t see how you can say that Diaz wasn’t interfering with play.

55 min: Everton break again, this time with Harrison. He has two options to his right – Beto and Alcaraz – but the Englishman instead just punts the ball hopefully through to Kelleher. Poor from Harrison.

53 min: Liverpool are having problems breaking Everton down, so Gravenberch zings a dipping, curling effort from range and forces Pickford into a good save down to his left!

51 min: Better from Everton! Harrison finds Alcaraz, who strides forward with purpose and catching Liverpool’s midfield out of position. The Argentinian feeds Beto, who flashes a low cross back towards Alcaraz … just too strong! That was an excellent break from Everton.

49 min: “Sometimes referees just get things wrong,” emails Ben Wilkinson. “But if Tarkowski scores another improbable worldie in the dying moments of this game, I’ll have no choice but to fashion a tinfoil hat and declare a conspiracy.”

47 min: Liverpool are now kicking towards the Kop. Everton are twice forced to defend two excellent Liverpool corners to their near post. Pickford flaps and is grateful for Tarkowski for winning the aerial contest.

Half-time reading:

I should mention that Beto received a yellow card in that first half for kicking the ball away after a free-kick. Missed that, apols.

45+2 min: Once again, a hopeful clearance from Everton results in chaos in Liverpool’s defence as Beto gets the better of Konate, lays the ball back to Alcaraz, whose shot is deflected behind for a corner. It is Everton who are ending this half the stronger.

45 min: Four minutes added on, owing to the treatment for Mac Allister and the lengthy VAR check for Beto’s disallowed goal.

44 min: Gravenberch tries his luck from range, his shot is deflected wildly by an outstretched Tarkowski boot, but it falls kindly to Pickford. That could have gone anywhere.

42 min: Everton are nearly undone by a Beckham-esque deep cross from Gravenberch, with Tarkowski doing wonderfully well to hook the ball away from Jota. Harrison makes a meal of controlling the ball at the back post, but Robertson can’t capitalise.

40 min: For all of Liverpool’s intricate play, they do look vulnerable from a straight, long ball from Everton. Beto is a right nuisance up there and Doucouré is lurking to pick up any second balls.

38 min: Beto wins possession in midfield and passes back to his centre-backs, the ball just avoiding Jota, who would have been clean through had he got it under. Nearly very sloppy!

35 min: “Arguably the best center back with a history of being coached by David Moyes isn’t anyone on the pitch, but sitting in the Liverpool dugout,” emails Peter Oh. It’s Arne Slot’s assistant Johnny Heitinga.”

I think Joleon Lescott (at Everton) and Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic (at United) would have something to say about that!

31 min: O’Brien and Diaz clash again. This time the Everton right-back eases off the Liverpool winger with his 6ft6in frame. Not the sort of bloke you’d want to get into a tussle with. Would, however, make a decent tree surgeon.

29 min: Liverpool are most incisive down their left, where Diaz appears to have O’Brien on a pair of ice skates. Diaz cuts inside and crosses beautifully to the back post, where Salah is waiting … saved by Pickford! The header was straight at the England goalkeeper.

27 min: Jota, without a goal in 10 games for Liverpool, finds a pocket of space inside Everton’s box and fires high and wide. The top corner was not covered by Pickford there, but Jota couldn’t find the curl required.

25 min: After a nervy start, Everton look solid defensively and have shown some attacking intent. That counts as an excellent first 25 minutes at Anfield.

22 min: Two contrasting emails in my inbox.

“At no point was Tarkowski’s foot on the ground from kicking the ball to clattering into Mac Allister’s shin”, writes Andy Flintoff (not that one). “How the hell is that not reckless, out of control and endangering the safety of the opponent? It looks very much like he’s got away with one (again)“.

“I’m a bit baffled why folks unanimously think that should be a red for Tarkowski,” emails Dave Moor. “He gets the ball upon which MacAllister runs into his boot. I’m aware that it’s a bit “his face hit my fist” but come on, he plays the ball and the foot is naturally going to be raised on the follow through”.

17 min: A bit of ping pong in the Liverpool box, the ball falls to Alcaraz, who has been lively for Everton, but it’s well blocked. Everton are creeping into this game.

15 min: From the resulting free-kick, just outside Everton’s area, Szoboszlai curls a shot wide of Pickford’s left post. Close but not close enough for the Everton keeper to scramble across his goal.

14 min: The decision is upheld, just a yellow card. Tarkowski is a lucky boy.

10 min: Gueye wins possession high up the pitch for Everton, feeds Alcaraz. The Argentinian takes a tumble in Liverpool’s area, but there’s nothing doing.

8 min: Szoboszlai and Salah probe down Liverpool’s right, to no avail. Beto is the only Everton player not camped on the edge of their own box.

6 min: With no defender around him, as he goes to trap a pass, Diaz rolls his left ankle and is quite obviously in some pain. The Colombian is going to run it off, but that didn’t look pretty.

4 min: Liverpool settle into their possession rhythm, Everton into a low block, although I’m sure David Moyes wouldn’t call it that.

2 min: O’Brien, not the first Irishman to play right back for Everton in this fixture, gets a little lucky after having his pocket picked by Diaz, who retrieves the ball from the byline and drives into the Everton area before falling in a heap. There are appeals for a Liverpool penalty, but the referee instead awards a corner – the ball went out at the byline. From the resulting set-piece, Konaté heads over from three yards out! The ball was expertly curled right under Pickford’s bar by Mac Allister but the French defender couldn’t quite twist his neck to divert the ball under the crossbar.

You’ll Never Walk Alone is the next anthem to cascade down from the terraces. David Moyes, in his first Merseyside derby at Anfield in 12, years, looks nonplussed.

The players are in the tunnel. Szoboszlai looks like he has grown around three inches of hair over the international break, now dangling down towards his shoulders in an alice band. ‘Allez, Allez, Allez!’ is belted out around Anfield in anticipation of the teams.

Arne Slot, Liverpool’s manager, talks:

We follow the [concussion'] protocol [with Alisson, who got a knock to the head on Brazil duty]. He is not ready but the good news is that we have Caoimhin [Kelleher]. He is perhaps too good to be Ali’s back up, but it’s good that he plays tonight.

Nine games to go but we are taking it one game at a time.

Sides managed by Sean Dyche and David Moyes are always strong on set pieces and so it’s not a shock to see (from Opta) that Everton have scored 41% of their Premier League goals this season from non-penalty set-pieces (13/32), a league-high ratio. Remember, Beto’s opener in the reverse fixture at Goodison Park came from a quickly taken free-kick. By contrast, Liverpool have scored the lowest share of their goals in the competition this season from non-penalty set plays at just 6% (4/69).

This game is one of just six Premier League games going on tonight. Here are the other five, which all kick off in just under 10 minutes:

Bournemouth v Ipswich
Brighton v Aston Villa
Manchester City v Leicester City
Newcastle United v Brentford
Southampton v Crystal Palace

And for the Bluenoses, the last time Everton fans celebrated a winner at Anfield, back in 1999.

Also:

Worth a read, if you are a Red.

In the absence of Trent Alexander-Arnold and Joe Gomez, it looks like Curtis Jones is going to fill in at right back, preferred to Quansah. Alisson does not make the Liverpool squad at all after his injury during Brazil’s game with Colombia. Kelleher comes in.

For Everton, Mykolenko is cleared to play, which is a big plus considering Moyes’ lack of options at left back. Ndiaye is only fit enough for the bench, while McNeil and Calvert-Lewin are both still out.