📊 Form Guide

Luton Town

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Luton Town will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-1 Premier League loss in their previous game against Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In that game, Luton Town managed 42% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 6 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Luton Town was Carlton Morris (80'). Wolverhampton W. had 13 shots at goal with 5 on target. Hee-chan Hwang (39') and Toti Gomes (50') scored for Wolverhampton Wanderers.

Luton Town have not been the best at stopping their opponents recently, but they’ve also found ways to hit the back of the net themselves. Analysis of their previous 6 games shows that Luton Town have seen their goal breached in 6 of them as well as scoring in 5 of those games.

Coming into this clash, Luton Town have not lost a league tie with Everton in their previous 2 games.

Everton

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Everton will go into this game after a 1-0 Premier League win vs Brentford in their previous match.

In that game, Everton had 48% possession and 18 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. The only player to score for Everton was Idrissa Gueye (60'). For their opponents, Brentford had 10 attempts at goal with 4 on target.

For 5 of the previous six games involving Everton, a relatively low number of goals have been scored between them and their opposition. The overall average number of goals per game in that period is a paltry 2.33, with the average goals for The Toffees standing at 1.17. That sort of trend isn’t assured to be carried forward here, however.

Heading into this contest, Everton have not won away from home in their last 9 league matches. Their travelling support will be needed here, for sure.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head clashes dating back to 04/05/1991 shows that Luton Town have won 2 of them and Everton 3, with the tally of draws being 1.

A total of 11 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 of them for The Hatters and 6 created by The Toffees. That’s an average goals per game of 1.83.

📋 Team News: Luton Town

Tom Lockyer (heart problems) and Chiedozie Ogbene (unknown injury) won’t be available for Luton Town manager Rob Edwards.

It looks as if The Hatters look set to employ a 3-4-2-1 system for this one with Thomas Kaminski, Reece Burke, Teden Mengi, Gabriel Osho, Daiki Hashioka, Alfie Doughty, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Ross Barkley, Tahith Chong, Carlton Morris and Elijah Adebayo.

📋 Team News: Everton

Everton manager Sean Dyche has not got a full squad to pick from. Nathan Patterson (Hamstring injury), Dele Alli (Partial muscle tear) and Vitaliy Mykolenko (Ankle injury) are not ready for selection.

From our viewpoint, The Toffees appear most likely to utilise a 4-4-1-1 formation, starting Jordan Pickford, Ben Godfrey, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Ashley Young, Jack Harrison, James Garner, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Dwight McNeil, Abdoulaye Doucoure and D. Calvert-Lewin.

⚡ Prediction

We envisage that Everton and Luton Town should both be able to score more than once here although it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we get quite a few goals with scores finishing level. That’s why our selection here is for a hard-fought 2-2 at the end of the match.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 18:02 03/05/2024