Our football team has the main takeaways from Saturday's Premier League fixtures, with some betting pointers that emerged from the action.
VAR saves Pickford and Everton - twice
Joe Townsend
Everton and Liverpool cast aside Goodison Park's recent history as a host of dull Merseyside derbies by playing out an action-packed contest that was indicative of the helter-skelter nature of Premier League football in 2020/21.
The protagonists weren't unexpected as Dominic Calvert-Lewin headed home a late equaliser - his 11th goal in 10 games this season - and after more than two years of unpredictable displays Jordan Pickford reached the nadir of erratic performances.
Pickford's day included everything we've come to expect and more. He twice made brilliant saves, with a full-length dive to deny Joel Matip particularly standout, but never looked calm and in control, characteristics England boss Gareth Southgate praised when he made the Everton keeper his number one back in 2018.
Calvert-Lewin has been scoring enough goals to account for the Toffees ever-unreliable, inconsistent goalkeeper but on this occasion it was VAR official David Coote who came to Pickford's rescue. With Liverpool already 1-0 up thanks to Sadio Mane's early goal and Everton's players struggling to gain any kind of foothold it was almost inevitable Pickford would be the first to crack.
A horror challenge on Virgil van Dijk after six minutes left the Liverpool defender unable to continue. Van Dijk was marginally offside though, so marginal that Coote put all his focus on making sure he made the correct offside call; Pickford got off scot free because a referee FORGOT to check for the red card. Truly incredible.
But for an inch, it would have been a Liverpool penalty to potentially make it 2-0, and an Everton team with 10 men for 84 minutes. But for incompetence, it would have at least been the latter.
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