Kuyt delighted Liverpool goal No50 was derby winner

Dirk Kuyt was delighted to hit his 50th goal for Liverpool in their derby triumph over Everton.

The Holland international stretched the Reds' unbeaten run to seven league matches with a 54th minute header after Sotirios Kyrgiakos' first-half red card had threatened to hand Everton the initiative.

"It's a great feeling and I'm really happy to have scored 50 goals for the club, especially in a game like this," he told liverpoolfc.tv.

"But I don't think it mattered who scored, just that we got the win.

"I think we showed belief when we had 10 men and that comes from the confidence we have built up over the last few games. We had to believe that we could still win the game and we did that.

"Out of the last seven matches we have taken 17 points and have kept six clean sheets, so you can see from those results that we are playing better and our confidence is up.

"Now we have to keep going and make sure we are ready for the next game at Arsenal."