Klopp: 'If you can't win a Merseyside derby, don't lose it'

In his post-match thoughts for the 0-0 draw against Everton, Jurgen Klopp said: "Rule number one: if you cannot win the derby, don’t lose it. We could have won it today but we could have lost it in a few moments as well.

"If you count the amount of chances we had and the amount of chances they had we would probably have been the deserved winner. I think that we had the last chance, which was a massive one, we could have won it then absolutely.

"Ali had to make two incredible saves and they scored a goal which was disallowed for a small offside, but obviously offside.

"So, [it was] intense like always and we were ready to fight after a super intense game on Wednesday, we tried to fight. Especially then of course in the second half it looked like an end-to-end game because after our set-pieces we didn’t defend the second balls they had particularly well.

"We had good set-pieces but we didn’t finish it off or when we got another one we were slightly too open and they used that in these moments pretty well.

"Apart from that they didn’t cause us a lot of problems or whatever, but we had to dig in deep obviously [and] that’s what we did."

It does sound like Klopp is resigned to the draw at Goodison Park.

However, for a team considered title contenders, the draw seems more like another 2 points dropped for Liverpool.