Everton-Crystal Palace is a match of the twenty-fifth day of the Premier League and is played Monday at 9 p.m.: live TV, probable formations, predictions.
An increasingly chaotic situation at Crystal Palace, where coach Roy Hodgson has been on the gridiron for weeks now. The experienced English coach, who will turn 77 in August, was struck down by an illness last Thursday during his team’s training session and is still in the hospital for investigations.He obviously will not be able to sit on the bench at Goodison Park this evening, while there is increasing talk about his possible replacement, which should be former Eintracht Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner.
The Eagles have lost four of their last five games and since mid-November they have beaten only Brentford and Sheffield United.They are 16th in the standings, with a margin of five points over the third-last, Everton, and in the event of a defeat in Liverpool as well they would find themselves only two points ahead of the red zone. The relegation risk, in short, is there and the constant absences the English club has to deal with certainly do not help. Neither Eze nor Olise, two of the most important players, will recover, and against the Toffees neither will central defender Guéhi, who will be replaced again by Richards. Palace has failed to keep its goal unbeaten since last Jan. 4, and in the last four games it has conceded as many as 15 goals.
Opportunity Everton
Opportunity to be taken at all costs for Everton, to momentarily bypass Luton and suck Crystal Palace itself into the fight not to be relegated.
Sean Dyche’s men in the league have not won for two months and are fresh from the defeat against City at Etihad Stadium (2-0), the first after three consecutive draws (Wolverhampton, Fulham and Tottenham). Their ranking is undoubtedly weighed down by the ten-point penalty due to alleged financial fair play violations: without the penalty Everton would be 12th on 29 points, the same as Fulham. Dyche will be without Danjuma and André Gomes but on the other hand will recover Onana, Coleman and (possibly) Doucouré.
The prediction
Everton hunting for three crucial points to get out of the relegation zone. This is the fourth clash in the season with Crystal Palace (the two teams faced each other only a month ago in the FA Cup, with the Toffees coming out on top in the replay) with a tally of two wins for the Liverpool club (2-3 and 1-0) and a blank-net draw. Numbers that are enough for us to side with Sean Dyche’s men.
Everton-Crystal Palace
likely lineups.
EVERTON (4-5-1): Pickford; Coleman, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Harrison, Onana, Garner, Doucouré, McNeil; Calvert-Lewin.
CRYSTAL PALACE (4-3-3): Henderson; Munoz, Andersen, Richards, Mitchell; Ahamada, Lerma, Wharton; Ayew, Mateta, França.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-0
