Everton vs Manchester City - prediction, team news, lineups

Following a adjacent two-week hiatus from Premier League football, Manchester City resume their quest for rubric glory connected Monday night, erstwhile they sojourn Everton's Hill Dickinson Stadium for the archetypal time.

The Sky Blues edged retired Southampton 2-1 to scope the FA Cup last past weekend, portion the Toffees suffered a heart-breaking precocious 2-1 loss to West Ham United.

Match preview

As the Arsenal quadruple dreams were dashed, the Man City treble phantasy is looking progressively apt to go a reality.

The EFL Cup has already been safely stored distant into the trophy cabinet, Pep Guardiola's men volition beryllium favourites to flooded managerless Chelsea successful the FA Cup final, and the Citizens stay successful implicit power of their Premier League rubric destiny.

Even if Man City participate Monday's crippled six points adrift of Arsenal successful the Premier League table, the existent runners-up - who would person 2 games successful manus - tin autumn backmost connected their quintessentially stellar springtime sequence, which has seen them triumph six games successful a enactment successful each tournaments and concede conscionable 2 goals successful the process.

Guardiola's men were made to enactment for their 1-0 league triumph implicit Burnley and 2-1 FA Cup semi-final occurrence implicit Southampton, but crawling implicit the enactment is preferable to not getting implicit the enactment astatine each for Monday's visitors, who are present unbeaten successful each of their past 11 Premier League matches.

Since January's astonishment 2-0 decision to Manchester United, Man City person accrued 14 points from their past six Premier League distant games; for comparison, they lone earned 17 from their archetypal 11 top-flight matches connected the roadworthy this term.

Guardiola vs. David Moyes has besides been a mismatch down the years, arsenic the Man City manager has not mislaid immoderate of his erstwhile 15 Premier League head-to-heads with the Scotsman, overseeing 12 wins and 3 draws successful that time.

Moyes's idiosyncratic grounds against Guardiola makes for grim speechmaking successful itself, but the Everton brag indispensable reunite with the Catalan manager astatine arguably the worst imaginable time, arsenic his Toffees squad person started to stutter erstwhile again.

After taking a respectable 10 points from 5 games betwixt February 28 and April 11, the location broadside caput into Monday's crippled pursuing back-to-back 2-1 defeats, some sealed by gut-wrenching injury-time goals.

Virgil van Dijk's 100th-minute derby victor for Liverpool preceded Callum Wilson's 92nd-minute clincher for West Ham past weekend, leaving Everton successful the bottommost fractional of the array and further denting their European hopes.

The Toffees volition astatine slightest stay wrong touching region of the apical six if they tin stun City, arsenic Brighton & Hove Albion commencement the play 3 points amended off, and Moyes's men are yet to endure 3 consecutive Premier League losses successful the 2025-26 season.

However, the head-to-head statistic are an unpleasant show for location supporters, arsenic Everton are winless successful a staggering 17 Premier League games against Man City, who besides prevailed connected each of their past 8 visits to Goodison Park successful the apical flight.

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Team News

Guardiola revealed successful his pre-match property league that Rodri was "getting better" arsenic helium manages a groin problem, but the Spaniard had not trained earlier Friday and remains doubtful for the slope vacation battle.

Either way, Rodri's understudy Nico Gonzalez is successful nary presumption to beryllium demoted aft his 30-yard wonderment onslaught to triumph the FA Cup semi-final - the longest-range extremity by immoderate Man City subordinate this season.

Centre-backs Josko Gvardiol (calf) and Ruben Dias (thigh) are inactive missing, but Guardiola's squad is different successful bully signifier for the travel to Merseyside, wherever the likes of Erling Haaland, Jeremy Doku and the departing Bernardo Silva should beryllium restored to the XI.

On Everton's end, Man City loanee Jack Grealish would not beryllium capable to play against his genitor nine connected Monday night, but the winger has already been ruled retired for the remainder of the play pursuing ft surgery.

Grealish is 1 of 2 semipermanent absentees for the location broadside alongside Jarrad Branthwaite (thigh), but Moyes volition beryllium boosted by the instrumentality of Beto, who has completed concussion protocol aft taking a stroke to the caput successful the Merseyside derby.

Beto could truthful instantly displace Thierno Barry astatine the extremity of the attack, acknowledgment to his affluent vein of signifier earlier his stroke - 4 goals and 1 assistance successful his past 3 appearances.

Everton imaginable starting lineup:

Pickford; O'Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Garner, Gueye; McNeil, Dewsbury-Hall, Ndiaye; Beto

Manchester City imaginable starting lineup:

Donnarumma; Nunes, Khusanov, Guehi, O'Reilly; Silva, Gonzalez; Semenyo, Cherki, Doku; Haaland

We say: Everton 1-2 Manchester City

City bash not request to beryllium blowing teams to smithereens astatine this signifier of the season, they simply request to find ways to win, and that is precisely what Guardiola's men are doing.

The visitors volition present callback well-rested big-hitters against a patchy Everton side, and a seventh consecutive triumph for the Sky Blues is the lone result we tin envisage.

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