Liverpool have made it nine wins out of nine in the Premiership after goals from Peter Crouch, Steven Gerrard and Djibril Cisse gave them a magnificent 3-1 win over a crumbling Everton side at Goodison Park.

Initially up by two after goals by Crouch and Gerrad early on, James Beattie, who had a header controversially ruled out, pulled one back four minutes before half-time. Cisse fired in Liverpool's third after 47 minutes and Everton were reduced to nine men when Phil Neville and Mikel Arteta were sent off.

Beattie's header may have ended Liverpool's sequence of 761 minutes of Premiership action without conceding a goal, but it was another impressive performance for Rafa's squad.