📏 Form Guide

Everton

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Everton are hoping to win again after their last result, the 0-1 Premier League success over Nottingham Forest.

In that match, Everton managed 58% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Everton was Abdoulaye Doucouré (94'). At the other end, Nottingham Forest had 11 attempts on goal with 5 on target.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that Everton have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. It will be a concern for them that Everton have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, shipping 5 goals in the process. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on into this next match.

Leading up to this clash, Everton:

• have not beaten Manchester City in their previous 15 league matches. That has got to hurt.
• are unbeaten in their previous 6 league matches at home.
• are without a win at home for the past 4 league matches. Their fans aren't happy.

Manchester City

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Manchester City will come into the game following a 5-2 Premier League win with the defeat of Crystal Palace in their most recent game.

For Manchester City, goals were scored by Kevin De Bruyne (33'), Omar Marmoush (36'), Mateo Kovačić (47'), James McAtee (56') and Nico O'Reilly (79'). Eberechi Eze (8') and Chris Richards (21') scored for Crystal Palace.

Pep Guardiola's Manchester City have seen their goal attempts be successful a total of 11 times in the course of their previous six matches. The overall goals that they have conceded during that period adds up to 6.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Manchester City:

• have not lost to Everton when they have played them away from home in the previous 7 league matches. A very decent away record against them.
• are without an away win for the past 2 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A study of their past head to head meetings stretching back to 26/02/2022 tells us that these fixtures have been disappointments for Everton. They’ve not been able to get themselves any victories whatsoever while Manchester City have simply been better than them, getting wins in 67 per cent of those games played.

A sum of 14 goals were scored between them in these games, with 3 from The Toffees and 11 coming from The Citizens. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.33.

The previous league clash between the two was Premier League match day 18 on 26/12/2024 which ended up with the score at Manchester City 1-1 Everton.

On that occasion, Manchester City managed 66% possession and 24 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Bernardo Silva (14').

At the other end, Everton had 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Iliman Ndiaye (36') was the scorer.

The referee was Simon Hooper.

ℹ️ Team News: Everton

Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Hamstring injury), Jesper Lindstrøm (Groin surgery) and Orel Mangala (Knee injury) won’t be available for Everton manager David Moyes.

We think that The Toffees should use the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game, handing starts to Jordan Pickford, Jake O'Brien, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Idrissa Gana Gueye, James Garner, Jack Harrison, Abdoulaye Doucoure, Iliman Ndiaye and Armando Broja.

📋 Team News: Manchester City

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has a number of players out of action. Ederson (Hip problems), Manuel Akanji (Adductor injury), John Stones (Hamstring injury), Erling Haaland (Ankle injury), Nathan Aké (Foot surgery) and Rodri (Cruciate ligament tear) can’t be considered.

We’re of the thinking that The Citizens seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 lineup, starting the game with Stefan Ortega, Matheus Nunes, Ruben Dias, Abdukodir Khusanov, Josko Gvardiol, Bernardo Silva, Nico Gonzalez, Savinho, Kevin De Bruyne, Jeremy Doku and Omar Marmoush.

🔮 Prediction

Here, we’re thinking that Everton will have their work cut out to score goals against this Manchester City lineup who we think should just have the edge.

We’ve gone for a 0-1 victory for Manchester City at full-time.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Victor Martins, 13:01 19/04/2025