The Grand Old Lady will open her door for the last time tonight to the neighbors from Stanley Park.
Emotions always run high in Merseyside Derbies and the welcome usually does not go further than the front step.
In the Premier League era alone – since September 1992 – the fixture has seen 23 red cards.
So far the “friendly derby” became known for a while.
This will mean so much more.
Not only for Liverpool and Boss Arne Slot, who will make his first and only visit to Goodison Park.
The stadium was the stage, 131 years ago, of the very first meeting between Everton and the Reds.
That match, on October 13, 1894, ended in a 3-0 win for the hosts.
And how Toffees fans would like to keep it on their local rivals to keep it again before the move next season to Bramley-Moore Dock.
The victory would go a long way to suggest that the second arrival of Boss David Moyes will lead to save and a guarantee that the fantastic new £ 800 million house of the club will open for Premier League Football next season.
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It would also be the bid of Slot Duken to complete his debut campaign as Reds manager with the title.
And he will know that regardless of the problems of the toffees, the Grand Old Lady can be a terrible hostess.
Pastor Jurgen Klopp discovered that in fact during his last visit.
The German had lost no more than nine years there, but on April 24, 2024 scords Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Jarrad Branthwaite when Everton won 2-0 in a first Goodison victory on their rivals since 2010.
It was the Death Knell to Klopp's hope to leave Anfield with a second Premier League success as part of a series of one win in four games in which the Reds finally finished third time.
This match – again planned after the victim of Storm Darragh in December – will be the 120th derby in Goodison, with the sides incredibly bound for 41 victories each and 37 draws.
Slot's Juggernaut fell into a ditch of a home park and lost the FA Cup fourth round collision of Plymouth on Sunday.
But Liverpool here would make nine points clear in the Prem and on an open road to Title Triumph.
Here is a retrospective of some of the most memorable meetings organized by the Grand Old Lady.
March 11, 1967Verton 1 Liverpool 0
This FA Cup collision imposed the holders, Everton, against the ruling competition champions and produced such a demand for tickets that it was also shown on gigantic screens in Anfield.
40,000 were viewed in the park, while 65,000 stuffed in Goodison – creating the largest audience for a FA Cup stroptdas outside the final.
Legend Alan Ball from England and Toffees scored the winning goal.
November 6, 1982Verton 0 Liverpool 5
Fans in the head still sing about how Ian Rush saved his boys' club in what Everton's toughest derby defeat ever was with Goodison.
But they could also sing the name of Glenn Keeley, who had come on loan last week with Everton because of defensive injury.
He had hardly played thanks to a contract position in Ewood Park.
And later he admitted that a new law that players would be automatically sent away for professional mistakes.
Liverpool was already a rush forward when Keeley Kenny Dalglish shot down in the 37th minute and was forced to go into the long walk.
Rush then ran on Riot to end the game with four goals and Keeley never played for Everton again.
While the legendary goalkeeper Neville Southall was in such a shock, he was borrowed from Port Vale to recover.
May 3, 1989Verton 0 Liverpool 0
Goodison will probably be just as raw as always tonight, but there will be plenty to look back on the most sad Merseyside Derby.
The match was Liverpool's first league match after the Hillsborough disaster 18 days earlier.
Fans wore 95 with each other intertwined Liverpool and Everton -Serraals in memory of those who died, that tragic figure who yielded to 97.
The entire city was united in raw sadness and despair, but the 46,000 present broke into a deafening singing of “Merseyside, Merseyside” after the silence of the minute-misery the most unforgettable moment of all in the 132-year history of Goodison.
February 20, 1991Verton 4 Liverpool 4
The Liverpool Echo headed this collision the “match of your life”.
And Everton went behind four times, with Tony Cottee scored his second of the game at the end of extra time to save a draw.
But the aftermath brought an even larger drama, such as Liverpool – Baas Kenny Dalglish Sensational resigned 48 hours later – no longer able to carry the toll and trauma of the disaster in the Hillsborough because he had as many funerals as he could.
The Reds were the first division champions and again TOP from the table went to this FA Cup Fifth-Round Replay, but Dalglish's sudden departure demonstrably cost them a second consecutive defending defense and started a 30-year-old waiting for another.
The location for the second repetition – imagine that nowadays also was goodison, decided to throw the pitch of a coin. And under the caretaker manager Ronnie Moran, Liverpool lost 1-0.
April 16, 2001EVERTON 2 Liverpool 3
The Reds had not won goodison in 11 years, but had to win it to keep their attempt alive to reach the Champions League for the first time.
Gerard Houllier's side was right in the 93rd minute and confronted with frustration.
But no one calculated Gary Mcallister.
He was 44 meters out and with the whole of Goodison he expected that he would deliver a free kick to the distant pole, he produced a shameful attack that goalkeeper Paul Gerrard defeated as his near-post.
Liverpool then won a Treble – from both domestic trophies and the UEFA Cup.
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