EVERTON keeper Jordan Pickford's "penalty cheat sheet" was spotted on his water bottle during their 2-0 defeat to Liverpool on Monday night.<br /><br />The England shot-stopper, 28, had the spot-kick records for Mo Salah, Darwin Nunez, James Milner, and Cody Gakpo at hand for the clash with Liverpool.<br /><br />And we now know he would have dived left for any penalty... with the stopper's research showing all four preferred to shoot that way.<br /><br />But that's not it, Pickford's magic water bottle even tells him where to stand for each taker and what to watch out for in their run-ups.<br /><br />The Toffees star's receptacle showed that Nunez, Milner, and Gakpo all shoot to their right - Pickford's left - more than 60 percent of the time as opposed to down the middle or to the opposite side.<br /><br />Salah goes that way a bit less but still picks it more than any other at 46.7 percent.<br /><br />However, there are also finer details for the Toffees No. 1 to analyze when each of them steps up.<br /><br />When Salah takes, his sheet tells him to "check run up", while a Nunez spot-kick means he will have to "wait for right".<br /><br />For Milner, there is another note to "check run up", while Gakpo's brief simply states "GK left".<br /><br />And this is not the first time Pickford has had penalty notes put on his water bottle.<br /><br />In 2021, he had a very similar set of diagrams on his bottle for a game against West Ham.<br /><br />He was also believed to have things written on his bottle during England's World Cup shootout victory over Colombia in 2018.<br /><br />Yet despite his pre-match revision for the Liverpool game, the England keeper did make a first-half howler.<br /><br />At the end of a blistering Liverpool counter-attack, Pickford attempted to come out and meet Nunez's cross.<br /><br />But instead, he left Salah with an open goal as the Egyptian gratefully accepted the invitation to break the deadlock.<br /><br />And Gakpo added his first Liverpool goal four minutes into the second half to seal the Reds' first league win of 2023.
