Match Thread Everton v Tottenham Hotspur - Team Prediction, Match Report and MotM Poll

[matty1878]

In contention. Which means 6 weeks touching grass and a fortnight in a German training camp.

He will have to play surely.

lol

he’s had a week off now with senegal

we need him right back in

 

[bitter-no-better]

When the match thread slips to page 2 then you know things are pretty bad.

Bump.

 

[Goodisongang]

whats the latest on gana gomes and doucs??

 

[gedefc]

Pickford
Godfrey Tarks Branthwaite Myko
Gana Garner
Young Harrison McNeil
DCL

Think I'd probably just bring Gana in for Danjuma, keep Harrison off DCL - we will get chances against these, have to start taking them. Would keep Godfrey and Young down the right hand side, to do a similar job as midweek​

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

• Everton are winless in their last 10 Premier League home games against Tottenham since a 2-1 victory in December 2012 (D7 L3). Each of the last four meetings between the sides at Goodison Park has ended level.
• Tottenham are looking to complete their first league double over Everton since 2017-18 – they’ve won more Premier League games (30) and scored more Premier League goals (100) against the Toffees than they have vs any other opponent.
• Everton have failed to score in their last three Premier League matches, attempting 41 shots without success. The Toffees haven’t gone four in a row without a goal since February/March 2022 under Frank Lampard.
• Tottenham remain the only side to have scored in every Premier League game this season, netting in each of their last 34 in the competition. However, they’ve kept just one clean sheet in their last 13 league games, shipping 25 goals in total in this run.
• Since the start of December, Everton have kept more Premier League clean sheets than any other team (6 in 9 matches). Between November 2022 and November 2023, the Toffees kept just seven clean sheets in 38 league matches.
• Since the start of last season, Tottenham’s Premier League away games have seen more goals scored than any other side (113). Spurs have scored the second most on the road in that time (57) and conceded the third most (56).
• Richarlison scored Tottenham’s opener in their 2-1 victory in the reverse fixture in December. No player to have previously played for Everton in the Premier League has scored home and away against the Toffees in the same campaign before.
• Jordan Pickford registered his 70th Premier League clean sheet in Everton’s goalless draw with Fulham, only the ninth English goalkeeper to reach that total. Since his debut in January 2016, only four goalkeepers have kept more clean sheets: Ederson, David de Gea, Hugo Lloris and Alisson Becker, with Pickford facing at least 200 more shots on target than any of those four in that time.
• Against Fulham on Tuesday, Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin had five efforts at goal without scoring for a third time in a Premier League match this season (also 5 vs Man Utd in November, 6 vs Newcastle in December). Before this season, Calvert-Lewin had only done so in three of his 181 appearances in the competition.
• Tottenham striker Richarlison has scored seven goals in his last seven Premier League games, and is looking to score in four consecutive appearances in the competition for the first time since March 2021.

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

Whats the chances of Onana being fit?

 

[neil999]

Should be a good team for us to play against really

 

[Curtis]

"Everton's only victory in the past 22 Premier League meetings was 1-0 away in September 2020."
Pretty encouraging factoid there....

I think they're beatable if we play them on the counter , but if we just sit back and try to soak up pressure I think they'll win. We need to approach the game like the previous fixture, but with doucoure unlikely to play , dyche will probably opt for more conservative tactics

 

[DanB90]

"Everton's only victory in the past 22 Premier League meetings was 1-0 away in September 2020."
Pretty encouraging factoid there....

I think they're beatable if we play them on the counter , but if we just sit back and try to soak up pressure I think they'll win. We need to approach the game like the previous fixture, but with doucoure unlikely to play , dyche will probably opt for more conservative tactics

Didn’t doucoure come off in that game as well?
Pretty sure I remember Gomes playing the Doucoure role.

I know he defo scored, I just can’t remember if Doucoure was also on the pitch.

 

[Curtis]

Didn’t doucoure come off in that game as well?
Pretty sure I remember Gomes playing the Doucoure role.

Oh crap you're right he scored the goal for us and set up the farcially disallowed goal as well

Isn't Gomes injured as well?

 

[ToffeeTim]

Didn’t doucoure come off in that game as well?
Pretty sure I remember Gomes playing the Doucoure role.

I know he defo scored, I just can’t remember if Doucoure was also on the pitch.

DCL scored the winner. Header from a free kick into the box.

Edit - just realised you're talking about this season. Forget about me lol

 

[DanB90]

Oh crap you're right he scored the goal for us and set up the farcially disallowed goal as well

Isn't Gomes injured as well?

I believe he is

It never rains….

 

[Curtis]

I believe he is

It never rains….

Oh I revisited the lineup for the last match doucoure didn't even play lol it was onana that gomes came in for

 

[Charles Hawtrey]

of those available this seems likely:

Pickford
Godfrey - Tarkowski - Branthwaite - Mykolenko
Young - Garner - Gana - McNeil
Harrison
Calvert-Lewin

Unless Dyche over-respects tham and goes:

Pickford
Godfrey - Tarkowski - Branthwaite
Young/Coleman -Gana - Garner - Mykolenko
Harrison - DCL - McNeil

Which might be a better line up for the City game.

 

[Alan Whittle]

“YOU ARE FEELING SPURSY…..VEERY SPURSY…”