Everton 1-3 Liverpool: result and report

Premier League · Wednesday 28 December 2005

Result

Everton 1-3 Liverpool

Premier League · Wednesday 28 December 2005, 20:00 UTC · half-time 1-2

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Everton 1-3 Liverpool: match report

Everton were beaten by Liverpool 1-3 in the Premier League on Wednesday 28 December 2005. It was 1-2 at half-time.

Peter Crouch opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Everton's goal came from James Beattie (42'). Liverpool scored through Peter Crouch (11'), Steven Gerrard (18') and Djibril Cissé (47').

Discipline: Everton received 2 yellow cards; Liverpool received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Everton were 17th on 17 points from 18 and Liverpool 3rd on 34 points from 16. Everton went on to finish that season 11th with 50 points, and Liverpool 3rd with 82.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Everton win, 3 draws and 6 for Liverpool.

Going into the match Everton's last five read L-L-L-D-W and Liverpool's W-W-W-W-W.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Peter CrouchLiverpool · 0-1
  • 18'Goal · Steven GerrardLiverpool · 0-2
  • 20'Yellow card · Tim CahillEverton
  • 42'Goal · James BeattieEverton · 1-2
  • 47'Goal · Djibril CisséLiverpool · 1-3
  • 65'Yellow card · Harry KewellLiverpool
  • 71'Yellow card · Peter CrouchLiverpool
  • 73'Yellow card · James BeattieEverton

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Everton 1, draws 3, Liverpool 6.

Team news

Liverpool line-up

Pepe Reina, Steve Finnan, Jamie Carragher, Stephen Warnock, Mohamed Sissoko, Djibril Cissé, Peter Crouch, Sami Hyypia, Harry Kewell, Steven Gerrard, Xabi Alonso