Merseyside derby ends in draw
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May 6, 2013, Monday
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EVERTON is likely to finish the top team on Merseyside for a second straight season after drawing 0-0 with Liverpool in a typically frenetic derby match yesterday, keeping a five-point gap between the local rivals.
By failing to end its 14-year winless run at Anfield, however, the blue half of the city is set to miss out on European football next season, with Everton five points adrift of fifth-place Tottenham with just two games left.
There was little between the two teams in a hard-fought 220th Merseyside derby, with Marouane Fellaini volleying wide with Everton's best chance and Steven Gerrard having an effort cleared off the line at the other end.
The result virtually guarantees a seventh-place finish for Liverpool.
David Moyes' team has been a more consistent force this season and Liverpool lacked a cutting edge throughout, missing Uruguay striker Luis Suarez who served the second match of his 10-game ban for biting an opponent.
Before kickoff, Liverpool fans in the Kop end held up red and blue cards to form a "Thanks" mosaic, in an expression of their gratitude for Everton's solidarity in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster that killed 96 Liverpool fans in 1989.
Everton is without a win at Anfield since 1999.
On Saturday, Tottenham and Arsenal relied on decisive interventions by their flying wingers to stay on course for qualification for next season's Champions League.
Gareth Bale produced yet another moment of magic to rescue a 1-0 victory for Spurs over Southampton in the Premier League, smashing home an 86th-minute winner from the edge of the area in his first game since being named English football's player of the year.
"It was a game-decider, a great moment of individual brilliance," Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said of Bale's 20th league goal of the season.
It wasn't enough to lift Tottenham above fierce rival Arsenal, though, as Theo Walcott scored the quickest goal of the campaign - after just 20 seconds - to earn the Gunners a 1-0 win at already-relegated Queens Park Rangers.
By failing to end its 14-year winless run at Anfield, however, the blue half of the city is set to miss out on European football next season, with Everton five points adrift of fifth-place Tottenham with just two games left.
There was little between the two teams in a hard-fought 220th Merseyside derby, with Marouane Fellaini volleying wide with Everton's best chance and Steven Gerrard having an effort cleared off the line at the other end.
The result virtually guarantees a seventh-place finish for Liverpool.
David Moyes' team has been a more consistent force this season and Liverpool lacked a cutting edge throughout, missing Uruguay striker Luis Suarez who served the second match of his 10-game ban for biting an opponent.
Before kickoff, Liverpool fans in the Kop end held up red and blue cards to form a "Thanks" mosaic, in an expression of their gratitude for Everton's solidarity in the wake of the Hillsborough disaster that killed 96 Liverpool fans in 1989.
Everton is without a win at Anfield since 1999.
On Saturday, Tottenham and Arsenal relied on decisive interventions by their flying wingers to stay on course for qualification for next season's Champions League.
Gareth Bale produced yet another moment of magic to rescue a 1-0 victory for Spurs over Southampton in the Premier League, smashing home an 86th-minute winner from the edge of the area in his first game since being named English football's player of the year.
"It was a game-decider, a great moment of individual brilliance," Tottenham manager Andre Villas-Boas said of Bale's 20th league goal of the season.
It wasn't enough to lift Tottenham above fierce rival Arsenal, though, as Theo Walcott scored the quickest goal of the campaign - after just 20 seconds - to earn the Gunners a 1-0 win at already-relegated Queens Park Rangers.
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