Liverpool aim to create own history at Everton's new home as Jamie Carragher makes prediction

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The ECHO's Liverpool FC correspondent Paul Gorst previews Sunday's first-ever Merseyside derby at Hill Dickinson StadiumDefeats, as the boss of Liverpool, are rarely advisable.But suffering an 18th of a dispiriting season at the home of local rivals Everton? All the latest news and analysis from Anfield on the Liverpool Echo's dedicated LFC Facebook pageBut Liverpool supporters are growing weary and the explanations have sounded more like excuses to them as the campaign has worn on.Seventeen defeats across all competitions will do that and another setback at the home their city rivals could have huge ramifications for this Champions League qualification quest they are left with.That's before factoring in what an unwanted result in the local skirmish that is the Merseyside derby will mean to the general mood towards an already embattled head coach in Slot."I don't think Everton are the favourites," Jamie Carragher tells the ECHO.

"I still believe that if Liverpool play well they will win."It's interesting because even though Liverpool have a really good record of late, probably going back 10-15 years at Goodison, it was always a tight pitch with people on top of you."And I know they have done that brilliantly at the new stadium, it's really steep the fans are on top of you but it's nothing like Goodison."But I just think the size of the pitch means that you can't get after the opposition as much and that's what the derby is for Everton. And I just think there's a lot of space on that pitch."Liverpool's Achilles Heel this season has generally been their inability to handle the physicality of a Premier League that is increasingly reverting to more agricultural routes to goal.Slot's side, as has been proven time and again, can be bullied into submission, which will be music to the ears of David Moyes, whose high-flying Blues enter the 248th derby with European hopes of their own.There is also the unavoidable wrinkle of this being the first ever derby held at Everton's new £800m home on the banks of the River Mersey.The knaves, as they tend to do around the city on derby week, have been out to make mischief in the build up, insisting that it is indeed a day of history for the Blues, due to them welcoming the Premier League champions to their new home for the first time.While one widely shared social post was delivered tongue-in-cheek, there is at least some truth in the idea this will represent a high watermark for Everton and their new arena, should they triumph.Everton, though, have won just one of the last 14 home games against the Reds, which came two years ago in the dying embers of Jurgen Klopp's Anfield reign.Ten of those fixtures have been drawn, however, and you have to go back nine years for the last time Liverpool won successive league derbies."Liverpool will need to play well to win, there's no doubt about that," Carragher adds.

But Everton aren't that far behind, are they?"Liverpool's big players need to play well but I think if they do play well, they might just about have enough in a tight game. It could be 1-0 or 2-1."But if it is Everton who welcome their neighbours across town for what is a small slice of their own club history on Sunday afternoon, the Reds have a chance to take some home with them as they aim to become the first team to win at 60 different Premier League grounds.It's unlikely to be the most sizable tool for motivation when Slot sits his players down in the unfamiliar confines of the Hill Dickinson away dressing room - but the noise from the away end should be.