📊 Form Guide

Everton

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Everton will be hoping for a better result following the 2-4 Premier League defeat in their last game at the hands of Brentford.

In that game, Everton managed 45% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 6 of them on target. For Everton, the scorers were Beto (66') and Thierno Barry (91'). For their opponents, Brentford had 11 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Thiago (11', 51', 88') and Nathan Collins (50') scored for Brentford.

An interesting theme in recent Everton games is seeing a zero in the scoreline.

Taking their prior six matches before this one, in as many as 5 of them a wager on both teams scoring would have been a loser. Previous results aside, time will tell if such a trend shall be replicated in this match.

Heading into this contest, Everton haven't been beaten in the league by Wolverhampton Wanderers in their previous 3 games.

Wolverhampton Wanderers

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Wolves go into this meeting following a 3-0 Premier League win in the defeat of West Ham United in their last fixture.

In that game, Wolverhampton Wanderers had 33% possession and 11 attempts on goal with 8 on target. For Wolverhampton Wanderers, the goals were scored by Jhon Arias (4'), Hee-chan Hwang (31') and Mané (41'). For their opponents, West Ham United got 6 shots on goal with 0 on target.

The numbers tell their own story, and Wolves have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 matches, conceding 11 goals in all. At the back, Wolverhampton Wanderers have been far from perfect.

Going into this contest, Wolverhampton Wanderers have not won away from home in their last 12 league games. It's not a good run at all.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings stretching back to 26/08/2023 shows that Everton have won 2 of them & Wolves 3, with the tally of drawn games being 1.

A sum of 17 goals were produced between them in this period, with 8 for The Toffees and 9 coming from Wolves. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

📰 Team News: Everton

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall (Hamstring injury), Séamus Coleman (Hamstring injury) and Jarrad Branthwaite (Hamstring injury) will not be taking part for Everton gaffer David Moyes.

We think that The Toffees look set to make use of the 4-2-3-1 formation for this game and select Jordan Pickford, Jake O'Brien, James Tarkowski, Michael Keane, Vitaliy Mykolenko, James Garner, Tim Iroegbunam, Dwight McNeil, Merlin Roehl, Jack Grealish and Thierno Barry.

📰 Team News: Wolves

Out of a mainly healthy squad, there is only the one fitness worry for the Wolves manager Rob Edwards to be concerned about. Rodrigo Gomes (Groin injury) won’t be playing here.

We are inclined to think that Wolves will likely make use of a 3-5-2 lineup by sending out Jose Sa, Yerson Mosquera, Santiago Bueno, Ladislav Krejci, Jackson Tchatchoua, Jhon Arias, Joao Gomes, Mateus Mane, Hugo Bueno, Tolu Arokodare and Hee-Chan Hwang.

🔮 Prediction

When taking all factors into account, Wolverhampton Wanderers should have enough to find the net against this Everton lineup, although that realistically won’t be enough to avoid defeat.

We can see a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Everton at the end of the 90 minutes. Looking forward to this.

Lucas Pereira, 19:01 07/01/2026