2026/2027 season

Premier League

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Everton
Head coach: David Moyes · Variable selon les feuilles de match Sky Sports : 4-2-3-1 contre Crystal Palace le 22/08 (Pickford ; Rohl, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko ; Armstrong, Hackney ; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, George ; Barry), puis 4-3-3 à Bournemouth le 29/08 (Pickford ; Rohl, Branthwaite, Tarkowski, Mykolenko ; Armstrong, Garner, Dewsbury-Hall ; George, Ndiaye, Barry). Base commune vérifiée : défense à quatre et un seul avant-centre (Barry).
Rank
7th
Pts
10
P
7
Form
🟡 Average

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
4/10
Attack
9/10
Defence
4/10
Form
6/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Medium

7th with 10 pts from 7 matches: 2 wins, 4 draws, 1 defeat.

8 goals scored, 7 conceded.

Jorrel Hato made a great impression on the victory of Chelsea at Everton on Saturday afternoon. The Dutch defender received good reviews in the English media. Jorrel Hato gets a lot of praise for role at Chelsea-victory The Sun described the former Ajacied as a .unsung heroine and spoke of one of his most underestimated achievements [...] Continue reading..

Soccernews · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Chelsea goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez says he will be back "in a few weeks" after breaking his jaw in a collision with Jarrad Branthwaite.

BBC Sport · 18 Oct 2026

The goalkeeper of Chelsea broke the silence after the operation to the jaw following a violent game clash in the race against Everton

Tuttosport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

The Argentinian goalkeeper collided with Everton defender Jarrad Branthwaite while challenging for a cross

The Independent — Football · 18 Oct 2026

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Lvs Chelsea FC (H) · 0-2
Dvs Hull City AFC (A) · 2-2
Wvs Ipswich Town FC (H) · 1-0
Dvs Tottenham Hotspur FC (A) · 0-0
Dvs Manchester United FC (H) · 2-2
WWDDDDL
8 scored / 7 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 1 day since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days
Home form
2W - 1D - 1L
Away form
0W - 3D - 0L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
1.0
Goals conceded per match
1.2
At home
3 scored · 4 conceded in 3 matches
Away
2 scored · 2 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
2 of 5
Both teams score
2 of 5
Clean sheets
2 of 5
Failed to score
2 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Everton play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
Variable selon les feuilles de match Sky Sports : 4-2-3-1 contre Crystal Palace le 22/08 (Pickford ; Rohl, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko ; Armstrong, Hackney ; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, George ; Barry), puis 4-3-3 à Bournemouth le 29/08 (Pickford ; Rohl, Branthwaite, Tarkowski, Mykolenko ; Armstrong, Garner, Dewsbury-Hall ; George, Ndiaye, Barry). Base commune vérifiée : défense à quatre et un seul avant-centre (Barry).
Philosophy
Not publicly claimed in the sources consulted. Factual element: Sky Sports describes the midfield duo Harrison Armstrong - Hayden Hackney as “orchestrating the counter-attacking play” in the win against Crystal Palace, which suggests a deliberately lower block, without Moyes having put it into words himself.
Attacking strengths
3 goals in 2 matchdays: Dewsbury-Hall (42nd) and Barry (53rd) against Crystal Palace, Tarkowski (90+1) at Bournemouth. Thierno Barry also scored his first hat-trick in an Everton shirt in the Carabao Cup at Preston (0-4, 26/08), a notable step up after 8 goals in 41 appearances the previous season.
Defensive solidity
The team's best feature: just 1 goal conceded in 2 matchdays, with a clean sheet from the off. The Tarkowski - Branthwaite centre-back pairing retained for both matches, and Jordan Pickford made a decisive save from Nketiah (17th) against Palace.
Pressing
Not verified. No source consulted provides numerical data on Everton's pressing in 2026-27.
Transitions
Apparent strength: Sky Sports notes that both goals against Crystal Palace came from counter-attacking play orchestrated by Armstrong and Hackney, while Palace dominated possession. Only one match documented, to be confirmed.
StrengthDefensive solidity (1 goal conceded), an ability not to lose (unbeaten, 4 points), the emergence of young players (Harrison Armstrong, 19, a starter on both matchdays), Thierno Barry's rise, and a character illustrated by Tarkowski's 90+1 equaliser at Bournemouth.
WeaknessChance conversion: Moyes said he was “disappointed with the second half” at Bournemouth, feeling that the team had “missed big chances”, with Barry having squandered several clear-cut situations. Added to that is major uncertainty over the squad 24 hours before the close of the transfer window, with the possible departure of Iliman Ndiaye.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
A curious gap has opened between the pitch and the boardroom. On the pitch, Everton are seventh with four points, a 2-0 win on the opening day, a draw snatched in stoppage time at Bournemouth by James Tarkowski and, level with others, the best defence in the league on one goal conceded. Institutionally, the summer is regarded as a failure, marked 2 out of 10 by Sky Sports, the lowest in the league. David Moyes must now get through a season with one recognised centre-forward, one right-back and one left-back. The new signings' message remains positive, with Ainsley Maitland-Niles talking of a new chapter that can bring great things.
Coach / players / board relationship
No direct tension between David Moyes, his board and his dressing room has been reported, but the fault line lies elsewhere. The head coach had publicly identified his needs, a right-back and a centre-forward, and got only the first, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, signed for around £3m from Olympique Lyonnais. The recruitment department sold Beto to Fiorentina and Iliman Ndiaye to Manchester City for £65m without securing a replacement, the Balogun deal collapsing on deadline night. Sky Sports describe a chaotic window and give the club the lowest mark in the league. The credit Moyes enjoys therefore rests essentially on results.
Mood with the supporters
The discontent is clear, documented and institutional. The club's Fan Forum published a statement demanding competence, preparation and accountability, saying it understood the financial constraints but not the way recruitment was handled. Sky Sports sum up the supporters' state of mind in five words: hurt, embarrassed, angry, frustrated and worried. The collapse of the Folarin Balogun deal on deadline night, amid a medical doubt and a parallel move for Zirkzee, crystallised that anger. Jack Grealish's return on loan remains the only cause for enthusiasm in a summer badly received in the stands.
Pressure on the head coach
It does not come from the table, which is good, but from the context in which David Moyes will have to work. With one recognised centre-forward and no cover at all on either flank, the slightest injury could tip the season. The head coach can nonetheless point to a start of four points from six and, level with others, the best defence in the league, which gives him real leeway. No source consulted questions his position, the criticism being aimed explicitly at the recruitment department and the board. Hosting Manchester United on 6 September will be his first big occasion of the season.
Club objectives
The club has not announced a numerical objective, but the starting point is known: eighth place last season, achieved after a run of seven matches without a win that had wrecked their European ambitions. The summer was devoted to funding the structure rather than strengthening the team, with £65m banked for Iliman Ndiaye and £15.4m for Beto. The arrivals — Hayden Hackney for £16.5m, Tyrique George for a fee that could reach £24m, Christian Nørgaard for £7m and Ainsley Maitland-Niles for around £3m — describe a project of consolidation rather than ambition. Jack Grealish's return on loan is meant to provide the individual difference the attack lacks.
Recent internal tensions
The main tension is between the stands and the board, not the dressing room and the head coach. The Fan Forum formalised its anger in a statement demanding competence, preparation and accountability, after a summer in which the club sold its two main attacking options without replacing them. Sky Sports documented the detail of the Balogun failure, including the renegotiation of the fee after a medical doubt and the parallel move for Joshua Zirkzee that the player experienced as going behind his back. The club came out of it with the worst window mark in the league and a single recognised striker in its squad.
Absences
InjuredChristian Nørgaard — A summer signing from Arsenal, he is unavailable with a return estimated around 12 September.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Arsenal — Everton

AwaySaturday 24 October at 16:00Matchday 8
In 6 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateArsenal — Everton
47 %
1 · Arsenal
28 %
X · draw
25 %
2 · Everton
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 6 matches played by Arsenal, 7 matches by Everton. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 189 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.45 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Arsenal — attack10 in 6 matches1.151.07
    Arsenal — defence5 in 6 matches0.570.79
    Everton — attack8 in 7 matches0.790.88
    Everton — defence7 in 7 matches0.690.83
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.50 for Arsenal and 0.54 for Everton. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.42 goal scored on average by the host against 1.42 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.00; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.00. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Arsenal at home: 3.00 pts/match versus 2.50 overall over 3 matches → ×1.055
    Everton away: 1.00 pts/match versus 1.43 overall over 3 matches → ×0.918
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λArsenal = 1.45 × 1.07 × 0.83 × 1.00 × 1.055 = 1.37
    λEverton = 1.45 × 0.88 × 0.79 × 0.918 = 0.93
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 47.1%, draw 27.5%, away win 25.4% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 1-0 (only 13.7%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Jordan Pickford
  • Mark Travers
  • Tom King
Defenders
  • James TarkowskiC
  • Jarrad Branthwaite
  • Vitaliy Mykolenko
  • Michael Keane
  • Jake O'Brien
  • Nathan Patterson
  • Adam Aznou
  • M. Rohl (prénom non vérifié)
Midfielders
  • Harrison Armstrong
  • James Garner
  • Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall
  • Hayden Hackney
  • Carlos Alcaraz
  • Tim Iroegbunam
  • Christian Nørgaard
  • Tyler Onyango
  • Harvey Foster
Forwards
  • Thierno Barry
  • Iliman Ndiaye
  • Tyrique George
  • Beto
  • Brennan Johnson
  • Tyler Dibling
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: Reconstructed from the verified Sky Sports team sheets (Everton - Crystal Palace on 22/08/2026 and Bournemouth - Everton on 29/08/2026, with Tarkowski wearing the armband in both) and the worldfootball.net squad page. NON-EXHAUSTIVE LIST: the squad pages consulted were truncated. The full-back fielded in both matches appears only as “M Rohl” on the Sky Sports team sheets and could not be fully identified..

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Martinez breaks jaw in Chelsea win at Everton
Source: BBC Sport
rss17 Oct 2026
Chelsea receive Emi Martinez health update after sickening collision vs Everton
Source: Mirror Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Neto scores twice as Chelsea win at Everton
Source: BBC Sport
rss17 Oct 2026
What channel are you watching Everton Chelsea live?
Source: Soccernews
rss17 Oct 2026
When can Emiliano Martinez make Chelsea comeback after Everton head injury?
Source: Mirror Football
rss17 Oct 2026
Chelsea goalkeeper Emi Martinez rushed to hospital after sickening collision at Everton
Source: The Independent — Football
Result3 Sep 2026
The table as it stood before matchday 3 puts Everton seventh with four points, three goals scored and only one conceded, one of the three best defences in the league.
Source: Sky Sports
Club3 Sep 2026
Matchday 3 brings Manchester United to Goodison on Sunday 6 September at 14:00.
Source: Football Web Pages
Institutional3 Sep 2026
Sky Sports have reconstructed the collapse of the Folarin Balogun transfer: Everton had agreed a £40m fee with Monaco, but the medical raised a physical doubt, disputed by the player and his club, and Everton renegotiated to convert part of the fee into add-ons. The player, unhappy that Everton were also exploring a move for Joshua Zirkzee, ultimately pulled out. Monaco executive Thiago Scuro reports his words: I do not feel good because Everton's medical department raised doubts about my future.
Source: Sky Sports
Institutional2 Sep 2026
Sky Sports give Everton the worst window mark in the league, 2 out of 10: the club sold Beto before securing his replacement, failed on all its fallback targets after Balogun withdrew, and their journalist sums up the supporters' state of mind with the words hurt, embarrassed, angry, frustrated and worried.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers2 Sep 2026
Right-back Ainsley Maitland-Niles, signed for around £3m after three seasons at Olympique Lyonnais, gave his first words: I am happy it is finally done, it has been a long time coming. He adds that this is a historically huge club that has won a great deal and that he wants to be part of that history, bringing his defensive duties first and then energy down his flank.
Source: VAVEL
Club2 Sep 2026
VAVEL's summary of the summer describes a dangerously thin squad: David Moyes now has only one recognised centre-forward, Thierno Barry, one right-back and one left-back. The summer arrivals include Hayden Hackney from Middlesbrough for £16.5m, Tyrique George from Chelsea for a fee that could reach £24m, Christian Nørgaard from Arsenal for £7m, currently injured, and Jack Grealish's return on loan.
Source: VAVEL
Transfers2 Sep 2026
VAVEL's summary of moves confirms a swap with Crystal Palace: winger Brennan Johnson joined Everton while Dwight McNeil went the other way to Selhurst Park, and Idrissa Gueye and Tim Iroegbunam also left the club.
Source: VAVEL
Transfers1 Sep 2026
The club sold Iliman Ndiaye to Manchester City for £65m and Beto to Fiorentina for £15.4m on deadline day, parting with its two main attacking options.
Source: Sky Sports
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Jack Grealish has returned to Everton on a season-long loan from Manchester City, his medical scheduled for 1 September; the club had not taken up the £50m purchase option after his first loan.
Source: IBTimes UK
Transfers30 Aug 2026
Tottenham and Everton in advanced talks on two separate deals: Iliman Ndiaye to Tottenham for around £60m (he has turned down several contract extensions, 17 goals in 74 matches since arriving from Marseille), and Richarlison to Everton for around £35m. Everton are also pursuing Jack Grealish (Manchester City).
Source: Sky Sports (Lyall Thomas, Vinny O'Connor, Michael Bridge)
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.