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This has made a big splash through the kingdom since Wednesday evening. Emblematic bastion of English football, the Liverpool FC experienced a great first in its rich history started on June 3, 1892, almost 133 years ago: not a single English player has appeared in the starting eleven of the Premier League match against Everton.
Meeting 15e Championship day to catch up, this Mersey derby gave birth to a spectacular draw in an atmosphere made electric by the equalization of the blues in additional time (2-2). But purists linger more this Thursday on the starting composition of the Reds.
Chelsea for precursor
Three Dutch people attacked the part under the orders of Batave Arne Slot technician, as well as a Brazilian, a Frenchman, a Scottish, a North Irish, an Argentinian, a Hungarian, an Egyptian and a Colombian. Unheard of in the ranks of Liverpool on the previous 4,347 outings of the club within the English elite.
Across the Channel, the first to have dared Tel Sacrilege is the Italian Gianluca Vialli, a former Chelsea coach who for Boxing Day 1999, against Southampton, deprived himself of the slightest English player at the start. The Blues Didier Deschamps and Frank Leboeuf were then there …
Liverpool's starting eleven against Everton this Wednesday:
Becker (Brazil)-Bradley (Northern Ireland), Van Dijk (Netherlands), Konaté (France), Robertson (Scotland)-Gravenberch (Netherlands), Mac Allister (Argentina), Szoboszlai (Hungary)-Diaz ( Colombia), Gakpo (Netherlands), Salah (Egypt).
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