Everton to ask referee to think again over Cahill red card

Moyes said: "I don't think it warranted a red card. I don't think anybody in the stadium did.

"I didn't think it was the worst tackle in the game and I don't think, when the tackle went in, anyone thought he'd given a red card. Everyone was sure it was a yellow card.

"Possibly (Cahill's reaction provoked the red), but if that was the case then it should have been two yellow cards, one for the tackle and one for not going to the referee. The fourth official said it was for serious foul play but I've seen the tackle again and I don't think it warrants a sending off."

Moyes added: "We can't appeal, we can only ask the referee to look at it again."

Cahill's dismissal was the eighth red card in the last eight derbies, and the 17th in 33 Premier League meetings between the teams.

Moyes added: "I certainly didn't (think the tackle deserved a red card) and I was worried that he had not walked to the referee, and I was trying to get him to turn around and go back because he was going to get booked, so let's get on with it. To then see a red I felt was a wrong decision. We will ask the referee about it."

However opposite number Rafael Benitez believes the referee got it right.

He said: "The first thing I would say (about the red card) is that nothing changed because we were better than them already at that moment. It was a bad tackle but I did not see it clearly.

"Xabi told me it could have been a lot worse, he felt it was justified."

Liverpool have lost just two of the last 11 derbies at Goodison and have won seven of the last nine.