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Everton fans celebrate after watching Wolves score 94th-minute winner against Liverpool

Everton fans celebrate in the concourse after watching Wolves score a 94th-minute winner against Liverpool on Tuesday night.

Toffees fans were in the stands having watched their side beat Burnley 2-0, staying behind to watch their rivals fall to a defeat.

Mohamed Salah had looked to have rescued a point for Liverpool after Rodrigo Gomes put Wolves ahead, only for Andre to see his strike take a massive deflection off Joe Gomez to give Wolves their third win of the season.

At the Hill Dickinson Stadium, Everton also picked up a much needed home win, thanks to goals from James Tarkowski and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall.

Wolves manager Rob Edwards to TNT Sports on his run down the pitch to celebrate: “It’s nice, long may they continue. It’s my groin this time. I’m falling apart.

“This is Liverpool Football Club, never mind this position you’re in, any time you beat them you’ve got to enjoy the moment. They’re an amazing football club with an amazing manager, and loads of great players. So yeah, it was a big, big night for us. What we’re trying to do is improve. We’re trying to build some momentum. We know the position we’re in. I know I’ve lost myself in that moment there. People might think we’re bottom of the league but you saw the energy around this place. You have to enjoy it. We’re trying to turn things around.

“We’re showing some fight and spirit, which I know is the bare minimum, but also some quality as well. We’re up against some top teams at the moment. The lads, whatever they’ve got to compete for, whether it’s themselves, a World Cup, their family or whether you want to be here next season, you’ve got to perform well, and they’re showing that.

“It took a while. When we first came in it was difficult. We were short of confidence. Initially it was hard to turn results around. Our standards had to improve and we had to work harder in training. Now we’re seeing the fruits of a lot of hard work in those initially stages. That’s what is, just repeat the right messages.

“We’ve got a really short squad now. We made decisions in January for obvious reasons. We’re a tight group now. I want everyone to feel involved.

“At 1-1 if there’s going to be another goal you’re expecting Liverpool. We’ve almost had to win the game twice. That’s what makes me so glad. We looked a real threat on the counter.

“We just want to try and keep improving. We’re doing that at the moment. There’s a good energy around and a belief we’re going in the right direction. Whatever happens until the end of their 38th game we’ll just keep fighting.

“We’ve made them angry, we know it will be difficult on Friday.”

On how important it is to give the fans some joy and enjoying the moment: “It’s really important. It shouldn’t be at this level, but it could go the other way. We’re showing some fight and spirit, which I know is the bare minimum, but we are showing quality as well. We are up against some top teams at the moment, we are competing with everyone. Whatever the lads have got to do it for at the moment, whether it is a World Cup, themselves, their families, whether they want to be here or not next year, they have got to perform well and they are showing that.”

“We are a tight group and I want everyone to feel involved, which they do at the moment.”

On his substitutions: “I knew who might come into the game and we just felt we were lacking a bit of energy in the initial part of the second half. We introduced a different impetus into the game and really thankful that they did and they had an impact.”

On what he said to Rodrigo Gomes when he came off the bench: “Just go and score! Go and score like you did the other day. It was a tremendous finish. He is rapid. At 1-1, almost everyone expected another goal to go to Liverpool.”

On whether his team can keep pushing: “That’s the aim, we just want to keep trying to improve. There’s a good energy around, and there is a belief that we are going in the right direction. Whatever happens until the end of that 38th game, we’ll just keep fighting. We’ve made Liverpool angry, so we know how difficult it will be on Friday [when the sides face each other again in the FA Cup].”

Liverpool boss Arne Slot speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “I think we are able to create enough chances, not as many as I would like but enough to score against the other team but the other team don’t need a lot to score against us. The first goal was the first time, certainly in the second half, the first time they have got around our box.

On having chances to win the game at 1-1: “It should have gone the other way,. You’re mentioning Virgil’s chance but don’t forget when Mo Salah is having a counter and both sides there are people free. He tried to find Dom [Szoboszlai] but someone got a foot in between. Those are moments that give a different result.”

On Salah’s goal: “Good moment for Mo, good action, bit lucky because they lost the ball in relatively simple situation. It was a good from open play, we have not scored that many from open play recently. We do create chances from open play, not as many as I would like, but enough to score more goals than we do.”

Concern dropping points in race for Champions League: “That is a concern because it is not the first time we have dropped points against teams that are in these positions. But we are not the first team to drop points here, last week it was [Aston] Villa, the week before Arsenal. So they are having a good momentum. I don’t think if you look at this game it was not needed for us to drop points. I’ve said this many times and it did happen.”

Slot speaking to TNT Sports: “Bad result, far from good first half, better second half. Second half, there was a bit more urgency, getting closer and closer to scoring a goal, then conceding with the first moment they arrived around our box. We immediately struck back, first off the post, then with Mo, then we were twice close to making a winner.

“In the end, we conceded a deflected shot, which was not even a chance.

“We hardly conceded a chance, created not so much but more than they did, but the result is again a 2-1 loss.

“We are losing far too many football games and dropping points. Was it again in extra-time that we conceded? The three times we lost in the last 22 games were all three in extra time.”

On facing Wolves again on Friday night in the FA Cup: “Yeah, which is a good thing and a nice thing because we have something to prove on Friday.”

Everton boss David Moyes, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “Back-to-back wins in the Premier League at the moment is hard for anybody. And it’s been difficult for us over the last month or two but certainly a really good win tonight.”

The win we got at Newcastle gave us confident going into tonight’s game. I thought it showed in the way we played. I thought for long periods we dominated the ball. We maybe didn’t make as many chances as we’d like but in the end we got a couple of goals.”

On being close to the European places: “I want to be positive, and I want to believe and I want the players to believe. I have said to them right at the start, that should be what we aim for if we can try and do it. It’s getting closer. I’m not saying we can do it and I’m not saying we cannot. We’re not being talked about as a club that’s in relegation and falling away. We actually think we’re a club that’s making progress and we can start tickling the top teams and putting them under a bit of pressure.”

Burnley boss Scott Parker, speaking to BBC Match of the Day: “We fell short tonight. We fell short in many ways really and many things going through my mind. We lacked quality with the ball. We couldn’t impose ourselves. We weren’t a threat playing against a very good side. We fell short in many, many factors. There’s not one thing I could say, there weren’t any fine margins. There was a clear winner and it was Everton.

“At the weekend, what happened to us I tried to freshen things up and it didn’t have the effect that I’d have liked, so we’ll have to look at that and work that out.

“What we’ve not managed to do this year is get some good momentum after good results or good performances. For some reason we’ve not been able to back it up and the consistency has been way short now. The level at times and the quality we’ve faced has been testing for us and it’s been clear there’s been a gulf in that.”

Twitter users reacted as Everton fans celebrate after watching Wolves score a 94th-minute winner against Liverpool…

@DaveRyan1970: Now listen lads you can’t be in the pub after Everton’s game has finished and celebrate Liverpool losing! Because our red brothers don’t like it 😉😂

@Cal_efc27: Anyone who doesn’t/has never done this when their rivals get beat has never been the game or it they have will never understand the rivalry

@jaedontaylor07: Celebrate Liverpool losing more than Everton winning lmao

@HLTCO: The level of bitterness Everton fans towards Liverpool is something all fan-bases should aspire to when it comes to their rivals. Superb. 😂

@WWFCJL: Fell out of love with football this season, boring and resigned to defeat every week, no desire to watch us play just turning up and waiting for it to end. Fast forward to now, I’m excited, I want to watch us play, I’m looking forward to going to games, thank you Rob Edwards

@KopFinest: Maybe a little over the top but people that actively dislike stuff like this most likely don’t even go to games, or many at that. A hate watch, never mind a collective one, is one of the best feelings in footy. Just won and all in boozer to watch rivals lose?

@TheFrenchHench: I love Everton fans. We could’ve gone home after our win, but nah, we stayed out to watch the shite get trounced by bottom of the league Wolves UTFT

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