There's something beautifully cruel about football. Everton finally get their shiny new stadium, the cameras are rolling for their big moment, and what happens? Virgil van Dijk pops up in the 100th minute to remind them exactly where they stand in this city.

The captain's towering header from a Dominik Szoboszlai corner was the stuff of derby legend. Ten attempts at the same routine throughout the match, then bang – when it mattered most, our skipper rose above James Tarkowski like he was swatting away a minor inconvenience.

For 90 minutes, this looked like being one of those afternoons where everything felt flat. New ground, same old Everton trying to spoil the party. But that's the thing about this Liverpool side under Arne Slot – they've got that winner's mentality bred into them now.

The noise from our away end when that ball hit the net must have echoed around Walton for hours. Hill Dickinson Stadium's grand opening turned into another chapter of blue misery, and you almost felt sorry for them. Almost.

This result keeps our Champions League ambitions firmly on track whilst leaving Everton to wonder if their new postcode might change their fortunes. Based on this evidence, geography isn't their problem.

Credit: Andy Hunter, The Guardian