'I really fancy Everton' in Merseyside derby

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Everton fan Lee, from Falcon Blues TV, says he believes "head over heart" that the Toffees will win Sunday's Merseyside derby against Liverpool.

Just five points separate the two sides this season after a disappointing campaign from the Reds and a better than expected one under David Moyes for Everton.

Arne Slot's side make the short trip off the back of being knocked out of the Champions League, which ended any hopes of them finishing this season with silverware.

"If you are asking for sympathy from a Liverpool perspective then you are looking at the wrong person," Lee told BBC Radio Merseyside. "I think they have been spoiled in terms of success and they have had some great times - certainly in my lifetime.

"If this is Liverpool's version of struggling, then I'd liked to have seen them in our shoes for the last three, four, five years which have been a nightmare!

"But you have to be realistic [for the derby] and, yes, I'm an Everton fan and I want us to win and I am confident that we have a really good chance of winning on Sunday.

"I'm not naive and I know that Liverpool still have the better players and the better squad, so they should come to the Hill Dickinson Stadium as favourites. But I really fancy Everton at the weekend.

"Momentum is massive and I do think it will count for something that it's the first [derby] at the stadium. Liverpool love nothing more than upsetting the apple cart and they can - at times - find a way, but for the first time in a long time, I am leaning towards an Everton win.

"I think this is head over heart, and usually it's heart over head, I expect Everton to win."

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