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Liverpool’s two sides are so evenly matched? (5-5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

fifty-fifty

'evenly matched?' is the definition.
(as in a fifty-fifty chance)

'liverpool's two' is the wordplay.
'liverpool's' becomes 'fifty' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'two' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'fifty' duplicated is 'FIFTY-FIFTY'.

'sides are so' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may be part of another bit of the clue.

(Other definitions for fifty-fifty that I've seen before include "Fairly" , "Evenly divided" , "Equally" , "Evens" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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