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Everton manager David Moyes has acknowledged the significant gap between his team and Premier League leaders <\/span>Liverpool<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Liverpool are on track to secure a record-equalling 20th top-flight title, holding a 12-point lead at the top of the table. In contrast, Everton<\/strong> find themselves in 15th place, 36 points adrift of their local rivals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moyes admitted the disparity between the two teams is now at its widest ever.
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“<\/strong>We might be further away from Liverpool than we have ever been at the moment,” <\/em>Moyes said at his pre-match press conference on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“<\/strong>By the time I had left here maybe 10 years ago we were much closer to Liverpool, we were competitive, competing around the same areas of the league at the time<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think at the moment it is the biggest gulf between the two clubs.”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even when the clubs were closer together in the league table, Moyes endured a miserable record at Anfield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 21 attempts as manager of Everton, Manchester United<\/a>, Sunderland<\/a> and West Ham<\/a>, the Scot has failed to win away to Liverpool, drawing on seven occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everton manager David Moyes has acknowledged the significant gap between his team and Premier League leaders Liverpool. Liverpool are on track to secure a record-equalling 20th top-flight title, holding a 12-point lead at the top of the table. In contrast, Everton find themselves in 15th place, 36 points adrift of their local rivals. Moyes admitted the disparity between the two teams is now at its widest ever. “We might be further away from Liverpool than we have ever been at the moment,” Moyes said at his pre-match press conference on Tuesday. “By the time I had left here maybe 10 years ago we were much closer to Liverpool, we were competitive, competing around the same areas of the league at the time. “I think at the moment it is the biggest gulf between the two clubs.” Even when the clubs were closer together in the league table, Moyes endured a miserable record at Anfield. In 21 attempts as manager of Everton, Manchester United, Sunderland and West Ham, the Scot has failed to win away to Liverpool, drawing on seven occasions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,159,169,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-football-news","category-news","category-premier-league"],"yoast_head":"\nMoyes: Gulf Between Everton and Liverpool Has Never Been Bigger - Matchplug Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Everton manager David Moyes has spoken about the distance between his team and Premier League leaders Liverpool.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/matchplug.com\/blog\/moyes-gulf-between-everton-and-liverpool-has-never-been-bigger\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Moyes: Gulf Between Everton and Liverpool Has Never Been Bigger - 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