Early betting lines indicate Everton advantage hosting Sheffield United at Goodison Park

These are busy days for the home team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Premier League. That game was an away game at Aston Villa, so at least Everton are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

Sheffield are nearing the end of this stay in this division as relegation is now unavoidable.

Everton form and stats

Everton have collected 19 points from their Premier League home games so far after 5-4-8.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Everton, as their goalkeeper Jordan Pickford has completely shut out the opponents for 190 minutes in the Premier League.

Defender Lucas Digne got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.42/10. Digne hit three key passes and won 1 of 5 duels.

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting West Ham United.

Everton are believed to win this game, given a winning chance of about 70% by the bookmakers. We have checked our records for their performance in similar circumstances and found one match and the win/draw/lost stats: Won zero, drew zero and lost one.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Everton, as the Premier League home game vs Wolverhampton Wanderers is only three days away.

Everton are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 23 goals in 17 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 27 goals have been conceded.

Sheffield United form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sheffield United, who have the fewest scored goals (18) in Premier League, so far with only 4 points returning home. The records show 1-1-15 (win-draw-lose). It's all red in the travel logs of Sheffield, having lost seven matches in a row as the visiting team.

Sheffield have been frustrated by their lack of goals lately, as they haven't scored in the league since they found the net 251 minutes ago. D. McGoldrick was the goal scorer.

Sheffield failed to get anything from their last game, a Premier League home match vs Crystal Palace (placed 13th) that ended with defeat 0-2. Oliver Norwood got a match rating of 7.61 in that game, top player of the team. Norwood hit two key passes, dribled passed the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 61 successful passes (of 70 total). Sheffield goalkeeper Aaron Ramsdale had a great day against Crystal Palace, but despite making six saves the loss could not be avoided.

A 0-4 defeat away at Tottenham Hotspur before that.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Sheffield played away with similar odds. This revealed four games. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, one were draw and the home team won as expected three times.

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Sheffield manager P. Heckingbottom as the team has another away game coming up in only three days, this time against Newcastle United.

Sheffield are seemingly not capable of scoring regularly on their travels in the league. They have only managed 7 goals from 17 away games. The Sheffield manager P. Heckingbottom has some worries about the defense as 35 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

These teams' last encounter with each other was the Sheffield United - Everton 0-1 earlier this season. Last six meetings between the teams: Everton won four, Sheffield United won one and one draw. one game with over 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

D. Calvert-Lewin 16 goals

D. McGoldrick 7 goals

G. Sigurðsson 6 goals

Everton missing players

Sheffield United missing players