Paul Ince: I’d have no Toffee in a combined Liverpool/Everton XI

If you look at the Liverpool team right now, and the way they’re playing, they’re on a different level to Everton.

It’s very hard to imagine any Toffee getting into a combined XI with The Reds.

However, I really like what Marco Silva is doing at Goodison Park, they’re improving a lot under him.

I don’t mean to be disrespectful to Everton, it’s just that Liverpool have set such a high standard at the moment.

I do reckon there are a few Everton players who would definitely get into the Liverpool matchday squad at the minute, and be challenging for a first team place.

Richarlison is a wonderful player, Seamus Coleman would push Trent Alexander-Arnold at right-back, Pickford surely would fit in at Anfield, and Gylfi Sigurdsson is a class operator.

Forget about the disappointment against Paris Saint-Germain, Liverpool are flying and this is a completely different game. I expect them to remain dominant on Merseyside.

Derbies are, of course, always tough, and difficult to predict, but Jurgen Klopp has created something special at Anfield.