May 13, 1940
Match: Liverpool Cup, final, at Goodison Park, kick-off: 19:00.
Everton – Liverpool 6-3 (4-1).
Attendance: 5,834.
Referee: Mr. W.H. Evans.
Everton (2-3-5): Ted Sagar (C); George Jackson, Norman Greenhalgh; Joe Mercer, Tommy Jones, Gordon Watson; Jimmy Caskie, Stan Bentham, Tommy Lawton, Alex Stevenson, Walter Boyes.
Liverpool (2-3-5): Eric Mansley, Ray Lambert, Roy Guttridge (Aston Villa), Matt Busby (C), Alan Brown (Huddersfield Town), Bob Paisley; Billy Liddell, Len Carney, Berry Nieuwenhuys, Stan Palk, Herman van den Berg.
The goals: 1-0 Bentham (1 min.), 2-0 Own goal (Busby, 8 min.), 3-0 Caskie (15 min.), 4-0 Jones (19 min.), 4-1 Busby (36 min.), 4-2 Nieuwenhuys (51 min.), 5-2 Lawton (58 min.), 6-2 Stevenson (62 min.), 6-3 Nieuwenhuys (88 min.).
Match reports:
** Evening Express: “Experience told.”;
** Liverpool Echo: “Everton win the Liverpool Cup.”;
Tommy Lawton, Everton F.C.
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