Dundee vs Everton - prediction, team news, lineups

Everton kick-start their pre-season run with a travel to Scotland wherever they volition look Dundee astatine Dens Park connected Saturday afternoon.

While the Toffees were past successful enactment connected May 24 erstwhile they mislaid 1-0 astatine Tottenham successful their last Premier League crippled of past season, the Dark Blues person already played successful 5 matches this summer, including 2 competitory fixtures.

Match preview

After navigating done troubled waters for a mates of seasons astatine the incorrect extremity of the Premier League table, Everton’s vessel has been steadied by manager David Moyes since his instrumentality to the nine successful 2025.

The Toffees were contenders for European qualification past season, but they had to settee for a 2nd successive 13th-placed decorativeness successful the apical formation aft failing to triumph immoderate of their last 7 league fixtures (D3 L4).

Securing a top-half decorativeness for the archetypal clip successful six years and ending the club’s nine-year drought without European shot is precocious connected the docket for Moyes heading into the 2026-27 campaign.

The Scotsman has already bolstered his Everton squad with the arrivals of midfielder Hayden Hackney and winger Tyrique George this summer, the second joining connected a imperishable woody pursuing a short-term indebtedness past season.

Everton first-team squad reported backmost to the club’s Finch Farm grooming basal past Friday, completing a bid of baseline tests, earlier travelling to their pre-season grooming campy astatine St Andrews up of this weekend’s lucifer against Dundee.

The Toffees volition reason the period of July with distant friendlies against Bolton Wanderers and Stoke City, earlier travelling to Germany to look Hamburger SV and Stuttgart. However, they volition instrumentality to Scotland for a clash with Newcastle United astatine Murrayfield Stadium connected August 12, earlier ending pre-season connected location ungraded against Lille.

Dundee are gearing up for their 4th consecutive run successful the Scottish Premiership aft finishing eighth successful the array successful 2025-26, 2 places and 1 constituent amended disconnected than the erstwhile season.

The Dark Blues ended the play connected a precocious with a 3-2 location triumph implicit Aberdeen successful mid-May, and Steven Pressley’s broadside person since juggled affable fixtures with group-stage games successful the 2026-27 Scottish League Cup.

Dundee recorded 1 win, 1 gully and 1 decision crossed 3 friendlies against Livingston (2-0 loss), Paksi (2-1 win) and Brechin (1-1), and they person since made a affirmative commencement successful the Scottish League Cup, winning their opening 2 Group D games against Airdrieonians and Annan Athletic.

They came from down doubly to bushed Championship broadside Airdrieonians 4-2 astatine Dens Park past Saturday, earlier cruising to a 5-0 distant triumph implicit League Two outfit Annan connected Tuesday, netting each 5 goals successful a rampant second-half display.

Before concluding the radical signifier with games against Ross County and Clyde, Dundee volition hole for their affable with Everton, which represents their archetypal lucifer against English absorption since beating Fleetwood Town 3-2 successful July 2023 during a pre-season travel to Ireland.

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Team News

Dundee midfielder Fin Robertson picked up an wounded successful the triumph implicit Airdrieonians and subsequently missed the triumph against Annan past clip out, making him a uncertainty for Saturday’s fixture.

Alan Forrest joined from Hearts earlier this week and the winger could beryllium successful contention to marque his debut, portion chap caller enlistee Owen Bevan volition beryllium hoping to unit his mode backmost into the defence aft being replaced by Aaron Donnelly against Annan.

Charlie Reilly has scored 3 goals successful 2 Scottish League Cup games, including a brace past clip out, and helium whitethorn proceed successful an precocious cardinal relation down striker Simon Murray. However, Pressley is apt to rotate his broadside to support his players caller for adjacent week’s fixtures.

As for Everton, Jarrad Branthwaite was constricted to lone 10 Premier League appearances during a injury-hit 2025-26 season, but the centre-back present hopes to person enactment his hamstring woes down him and has taken portion successful pre-season grooming this week.

New enlistee Hackney is disposable to marque his archetypal quality for the Toffees, portion the likes of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, James Tarkowski, James Garner, Thierno Barry and Jake O’Brien are besides successful contention to play.

However, first-choice goalkeeper Jordan Pickford volition not beryllium progressive arsenic helium is preparing to correspond England successful the third-placed playoff astatine the 2026 World Cup connected Saturday, portion Nathan Patterson and Iliman Ndiaye person been fixed an extended play of rest.

Dundee imaginable starting lineup:

O’Hara; Wright, Astley, O. Bevan, Oosenbrugh; Besir, Westley, Bland, Jones; Reilly; Murray

Everton imaginable starting lineup:

Travers; O’Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Aznou; Hackney, Garner; Dibling, Dewsbury-Hall, George; Barry

We say: Dundee 1-3 Everton

While Dundee participate the fixture connected a precocious aft back-to-back wins and clasp a chiseled fittingness vantage with 5 matches already nether their loop this summer, their inclination to rotate the squad up of home cupful fixtures whitethorn blunt their competitory edge.

Consequently, adjacent with dense legs from their archetypal baseline grooming camp, Everton's superior top-flight prime should radiance done to unafraid a multi-goal triumph connected Saturday.

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