After what has been a very odd week since the defeat to Chelsea, the Eagles head to Goodison Park needing points from a team that are intent on pulling Palace into further trouble.
MATCH INFORMATION
- 8pm – 19th February 2024
- Goodison Road, Liverpool L4 4EL
PREVIOUS MEETING
It is only a matter of weeks since the last trip to Goodison in the FA Cup replay which the hosts won courtesy of a stunning free kick from Andre Gomes.
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Paul Tierney. Assistants: Lee Betts, Simon Long. Fourth official: Tony Harrington. VAR: Stuart Attwell. Assistant VAR: Dan Cook.
TEAM NEWS
PALACE – Cheick Doucoure, Rob Holding, Michael Olise, Ebere Eze, Jesurun Rak-Sakyi and Marc Guehi are unavailable while Will Hughes is a doubt.
EVERTON – Arnaut Danjuma, and Dele Alli are unavailable while Andre Gomes is a doubt.
DISCIPLINARY RECORD
RED CARDS – Jordan Ayew (1), Ashley Young (1)
YELLOW CARDS (5+) – Jarrad Branthwaite (7), Idrissa Gueye (7), James Garner (5), Jefferson Lerma (5)
FORM GUIDE
Last FIVE meetings between the two sides;
- 17/01/24 Everton 1-0 Palace
- 04/01/24 Palace 0-0 Everton
- 11/11/23 Palace 2-3 Everton
- 22/04/23 Palace 0-0 Everton
- 22/10/22 Everton 3-0 Palace
Last FIVE results for Palace:
- 12/02/24 Palace 1-3 Chelsea
- 03/02/24 Brighton 4-1 Palace
- 30/01/24 Palace 3-2 Sheffield United
- 20/01/24 Arsenal 5-0 Palace
- 17/01/24 Everton 1-0 Palace
Last FIVE results for Everton;
- 10/02/24 Manchester City 2-0 Everton
- 03/02/24 Everton 2-2 Spurs
- 30/01/24 Fulham 0-0 Everton
- 27/01/24 Everton 1-2 Luton
- 17/01/24 Everton 1-0 Palace
LEAGUE POSITION
Heading into the fixture, Palace are 15th in the Premier League with 24 points from 24 games played, while Everton are 17th with 19 points.
RECORD AGAINST EVERTON
- Played 61
- Won 14
- Drawn 21
- Lost 26
FORM PLAYERS ACCORDING TO WHO SCORED
- Michael Olise 7.54
- Eberechi Eze 7.25
- James Tarkowski 7.08
- Vitalii Mykolenko 7.02
ONE TO WATCH
JAMES GARNER
FORMER CLUBS – Manchester United, Watford (loan), Nottingham Forest (loan)
The 22-year-old midfielder has seemingly been on of the first names on the team sheet each week since Sean Dyche arrived at Goodison Park. His departure from Manchester United in 2022 caused some backlash from fans who saw him as a talent that would star for the first team at Old Trafford.
KEY CLASH
ADAM WHARTON v IDRISSA GUEYE
The new Palace signing made his first start against Chelsea last week and impressed and it will be interesting to see how he does going up against the Everton midfield away from home. Gueye has over a century of interantiona caps for Senegal and has just returned from the AFCON where his country were elimnated in the knockout stages bu eventual winners Ivory Coast,
PRE-MATCH STATS
- GOALS – Odsonne Edouard/ Michael Olise (6)
- ASSISTS – Jordan Ayew (5 – 18th in PL)
- PASSES – Joachim Andersen (1,398 – 16th in PL)
- TACKLES – Tyrick Mitchell (62 – 8th in PL)
- TOUCHES – Joachim Andersen (1,725)
- SHOTS – Ebere Eze (48 – 17th in PL)
- FOULS – Jordan Ayew (37 – 3rd in PL)
- DISPOSSESSED – Jordan Ayew (59 – 1st in PL)
- SAVES – Sam Johnstone (34 – 20th in PL)
- CLEARANCES – Joachim Andersen (118 – 2nd in PL)
- BIG CHANCES MISSED – Jordan Ayew/ Odsonne Edouard (4)
THE NUMBERS
Following their 3-2 win at Selhurst Park back in November, Everton are looking to complete their first league double over Palace since 2004-05.
After winning back-to-back away league games against Everton 3-2 in 2014, Palace are winless in their last 8 visits to Goodison Park (D3 L5).
Everton have drawn their last 2 Premier League matches at Goodison Park – they haven’t drawn 3 in a row at home since a run of 4 in January/February 2015.
Palace have lost their last 3 away Premier League matches, shipping 11 goals in these games. The Eagles haven’t lost more consecutively since losing their final 4 away games in the 2019-20 season.
Since a run of 4 consecutive Premier League wins in December, Everton haven’t won any of their last 7 games (D3 L4). They have only scored 4 times in this run and failed to find the net in 4 of their last 5.
This will be Palace’s second successive Premier League match played on a Monday, after their 1-3 defeat to Chelsea last week. Indeed, it will be the Eagles’ 16th Monday fixture in the competition over the last 4 seasons (2020-21 to 2023-24), at least 2 more than any other club.
In all competitions, Everton’s only win in their last 11 games (D5 L5) was at home against Palace in the FA Cup in January.
Palace boss Roy Hodgson has never won a Premier League match at Goodison Park in 10 attempts, with 5 different clubs (D2 L8). The only stadium he’s managed more games at without winning is Vicarage Road (11 – 3 away from home, 8 as manager of Watford).
Everton manager Sean Dyche has won 7 Premier League matches against Palace, only winning more against Bournemouth (8). He’s unbeaten in 7 against the Eagles (W4 D3) since a 2-0 defeat with Burnley in November 2019.
TEB PREDICTION
This is one of those games where management of both sides will be keen not to lose due to precarious position the clubs find themselves. Of course, Everton are in a far worse position being five points behind Palace currently, but there cannot be an open invitation to allow them to close that gap and give them added impotus. The difficulty for Palace is that with so much talent missing from the first team, they must find a way of matching the hosts in what will be a tense evening. The Eagles often come out fighting when the backs are against the wall, so we fancy the lads the grab us a point from this one.
FINAL SCORE: 1-1
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