Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk called Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure to set up a fight on Pitch while the Merseyside Derby descended in chaos.
James Tarkowski scored a 98th-minute equalizer for Everton and Van Dijk thinks Doucoure encouraged a post-match Melee in which four people were sent. Arne Slot, his assistant Sipke Hulshoff and Curtis Jones joined Doucoure to see Red.
Everton's midfielder ran to the end and Van Dijk said: 'You saw that they celebrated the goal, they are entitled to it. Doucoure wanted to provoke our fans. Curtis didn't think it was good to do. The referee did not have the game under control. I told him.
'It was a very large provocation of one player. We all saw it and responded like a team like we could do. You know what is happening nowadays, it will be a big battle. Then it is not that it has to do with it, it is the referee and today I am not sure if he was completely in control. '
Some fans came to the playing field when Pandemonium followed in the last seconds of the last Merseyside Derby in Goodison Park and the scene after the game saw a huge fight between players and staff.
Beto had put the toffees first after 11 minutes, but Alexis Mac Allister quickly made it right. Mohamed Salah scored a filthy goal of 73rd minutes and Liverpool clearly led nine points before the late intervention of Tarkowski.
The late goal made it four league games in a row without the defeat for David Moyes, who said: 'The emotions went high all night, the stadium was on a fever. You could see what it meant for fans at the end of the game, the audience fluctuated. It was one of the big nights.
'If you (the start) had given me before I entered, I would have taken it all day. We still have a long way to go, there is so much that we can do to greatly improve and try to return to the levels that I believe we can come back.
“Hopefully the light shines on us if we can endure this season and enter the new owners and help us build a new team and a new better level of Everton versions.”
On the red card for Doucoure, Moyes said: 'I didn't see it from where I was. I had the chance to see it and I am disappointed because Doucoure played very well tonight and I will now lose it because he has a second yellow card that turned red. '
Due to the red cards, Slot was not allowed to do his media tasks after the game. Normally clubs would set up the assistant manager for an interview, but Hulshoff was also sent. Johnny Heitinga will take the team against Wolves on Sunday.
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