Everton and Manchester City will face off on Saturday the 26th of February at 5:30 pm in the 27th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Liverpool at the Goodison Park. The encounter will be officiated by Paul Tierney.
Everton is in the 16th position in the standings with 22 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Southampton in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 5 times, draw 4 times, and lost 13 times.
Manchester City sits in the 1st place in the league with 63 points. It comes from a 2-3 loss against Tottenham Hotspur in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has won 20 times, draw 3 times, and lost 3 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Everton
Everton has mostly adopted the 4-4-1-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-4-1-1 (11 times), 4-4-2 (5 times), 5-4-1 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (once), 4-1-4-1 (once), 3-4-3 (once) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Frank Lampard is expected to play against Manchester City with the following players: J. Pickford, J. Kenny, M. Holgate, M. Keane, S. Coleman, A. Gordon, A. Marques Loureiro, A. Iwobi, R. de Andrade and D. Calvert-Lewin.
In case that the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Everton would be 27.00.
Frank Lampard will probably not be able to employ A. Doucouré and D. Gray because of injury.
B. Godfrey, Y. Mina González, T. Davies and F. Delph will definitely miss the match.
Manchester City
Manchester City has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (22 times or 84.62%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (22 times) and 4-2-3-1 (4 times).
Josep Guardiola i Sala is expected to play against Everton with the following players: E. Santana de Moraes, J. Cavaco Cancelo, R. Santos Gato Alves Dias, A. Laporte, K. Walker, K. De Bruyne, R. Hernández Cascante, B. Mota Veiga de Carvalho e Silva, R. Sterling, R. Mahrez and P. Foden.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Manchester City would be 28.00.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will probably not be able to employ Z. Steffen, J. Grealish, G. de Jesus and C. Palmer because of injury.
Josep Guardiola i Sala will not be able to have the presence of B. Mendy who is suspended.