📊 Form Guide

Bournemouth

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Bournemouth, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after a 4-3 Premier League triumph versus Luton Town.

In that game, Bournemouth managed 59% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 10 on target. For Bournemouth, the goalscorers were Dominic Solanke (50'), Illya Zabarnyi (62') and Antoine Semenyo (64', 83'). Luton Town got 8 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. Tahith Chong (9'), Chiedozie Ogbene (31') and Ross Barkley (45') scored for Luton Town.

It’s been seldom in recent games where Bournemouth have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Bournemouth have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 9 goals in the process.

Everton

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Since a losing effort in their last game against Manchester United in Premier League competition, Everton and their travelling supporters will be hoping that they can get a better result in this one.

In that match, Everton had 49% possession and 23 attempts at goal with 6 on target. At the other end, Manchester United got 15 attempts on goal with 8 on target. Bruno Fernandes (12') and Marcus Rashford (36') scored for Manchester United.

Looking at their form, and Everton have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing opposing sides hit 11 goals in total. Defensively, Everton certainly have room for improvement. Let’s find out whether or not that trend can be continued on in this game.

↔️ Head to head

A look at their most recent head to head clashes going back to 15/09/2019 shows us that Bournemouth have won 4 of these and Everton 2, with the tally of drawn results standing at 0.

In all, 20 goals were shared by the two clubs throughout the course of those matches, with 13 for The Cherries and 7 coming from The Toffees. That’s an average goals per game figure of 3.33.

The previous league fixture featuring the two was Premier League match day 8 on 07/10/2023 which ended up with the score at Everton 3-0 Bournemouth.

In that game, Everton had 48% possession and 25 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Goals were scored by James Garner (8'), Jack Harrison (37') and Abdoulaye Doucouré (60').

Bournemouth got 11 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

The match was refereed by David Coote.

🗞️ Team News: Bournemouth

Lloyd Kelly (Hip injury), Ryan Fredericks (Calf injury) and Max Aarons (Hamstring injury) won’t be able to feature for Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola.

We are thinking that The Cherries should go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for this one, utilising Neto, Adam Smith, Illia Zabarnyi, Chris Mepham, Milos Kerkez, Ryan Christie, Lewis Cook, Antoine Semenyo, Alex Scott, Justin Kluivert and Dominic Solanke.

ℹ️ Team News: Everton

Thanks to a mainly healthy group of players, there’s only a single fitness issue for the Everton gaffer Sean Dyche to be concerned with. Dele Alli (Partial muscle tear) won’t be playing here.

We are inclined to think that The Toffees appear most likely to make use of a 4-4-1-1 system, starting the game with Jordan Pickford, Ben Godfrey, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitalii Mykolenko, Jack Harrison, James Garner, Amadou Onana, Dwight McNeil, Abdoulaye Doucoure and Beto.

🧠 Prediction

We believe that Everton will need to push hard to be putting a goal past this Bournemouth team who we think will score at least once to put them ahead.

We’re therefore expecting a hard-fought contest, finishing with a 1-0 advantage for Bournemouth when the referee blows for full-time.

Should be interesting.

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Andre Moura, 14:04 30/03/2024