Premier League preview: Everton vs Manchester City

Jason Hamburger
February 17, 2021

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🔹 12 goals
🔹 53 shots
🔹 24 on target
🔹 8.9 xG
🔹 3.1 goals over expected
🔹 5.6 xA
🔹 20.8% conversion
🔹 4.4 touches in opposing box (per game)

In all of the above metrics, @FCKobenhavn‘s Viktor Claesson sits in the 95th percentile of all #sldk players (at least).

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🔵 #LCFC win: 49%
⚒️ #WHUFC win: 27%
🤝 Draw: 24%

That point at Newcastle might just come back to save Dean Smith’s @LCFC today. But they’ll need all three points against West Ham, and a favour from Bournemouth.

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🏵️ #LUFC win: 36%
⚪️ #THFC win: 39%
🤝 Draw: 25%

Sam Allardyce’s @LUFC need to beat a flagging Spurs team – and for results elsewhere to go their way – if they are to remain a Premier League club. A huge ask for Leeds.

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City aim for 12 consecutive wins

Top-of-the-table Manchester City visit Everton in the Premier League, hoping to extend the gap at the top to 10 points.

Everton

Everton were beaten 2-0 by Fulham on Sunday, missing the chance to go above Liverpool in the table and temporarily move into the top four.

The Toffees will be without leading scorer Dominic Calvert-Lewin again after he pulled up during the win over Spurs in the FA Cup.

Carlo Ancelotti’s side have lost their last two home Premier League games conceding two in each and not scoring. They have won just once in their last five games.

Man City

Pep Guardiola’s side have won their past 11 games in the Premier League, and have won their last 16 in all competitions.

The Blues thrashed Tottenham 3-0 on Saturday with Ilkay Gundogan scoring a brace. However, the German was substituted with a groin injury and he’s ‘unlikely’ to be fit. Gundogan has been instrumental for City, scoring 11 goals in his last 12.

Manchester City’s German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan scores his team’s third goal past Tottenham Hotspur’s French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium. (Photo by TIM KEETON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Kevin de Bruyne is back in the squad though alongside Sergio Aguero and they will be expected to make it 12 successive wins.

The Etihad side have conceded six goals in their last 23 games in all competitions since losing 2-0 to Spurs in November.

Head-to-head

Everton have won just one of their last 14 Premier League games against Man City (D4,L9), with City winning each of the last five meetings.

Featured image: Manchester City’s German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan is mobbed as he celebrates scoring his team’s second goal during the English Premier League football match between Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur at the Etihad Stadium. (Photo by TIM KEETON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)