{"id":426,"date":"2026-04-19T20:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=426"},"modified":"2026-04-19T20:07:52","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T20:07:52","slug":"virgil-van-dijk-scores-100th-minute-winner-as-liverpool-beat-everton-in-merseyside-derby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/?p=426","title":{"rendered":"Virgil van Dijk scores 100th-minute winner as Liverpool beat Everton in Merseyside derby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Slot made four changes to his starting XI, with Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones, Andy Robertson and Salah the players restored to the line-up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool: <\/strong>Mamardashvili (Woodman, 58), Van Dijk, Konate, Wirtz (Mac Allister, 83), Szoboszlai, Isak (Ngumoha, 72), Salah, Jones, Gakpo (Frimpong, 83), Robertson (Kerkez, 86), Gravenberch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unused subs:<\/strong> Pecsi, Church, Bird.<\/p>\n<p><strong>First half<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A fine save by Giorgi Mamardashvili \u2013 the Liverpool goalkeeper clawing away Beto\u2019s header down to his left \u2013 prevented Everton from taking a lead with six minutes gone amid a predictably raucous atmosphere. <\/p>\n<p>But, having weathered the early storm, the Reds grew into the contest and Gakpo saw a shot deflect wide off James Tarkowski after the forward had darted inside off the left flank.<\/p>\n<p>A pivotal two-minute spell during which both teams scored followed \u2013 though Everton\u2019s celebrations were cut short as Ndiaye\u2019s goal was ruled out for offside following a VAR review.<\/p>\n<p>And, moments later, their disappointment was compounded by the sight of Salah wheeling away towards a delirious away end. <\/p>\n<p>Gakpo was the creator, the No.18 bisecting the Blues\u2019 back line with a superb pass that Salah met with a firm, first-time finish that drew him level with <strong>Steven Gerrard<\/strong> as the Reds\u2019 top Premier League scorer in derbies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team Slot made four changes to his starting XI, with Cody Gakpo, Curtis Jones, Andy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liverpool"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeeworld.name.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}