Everton vs Sunderland - prediction, team news, lineups

One of a fewer unofficial David Moyes derbies, Everton and Sunderland quadrate disconnected successful the penultimate Premier League gameweek astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium connected Sunday.

Just 1 constituent separates the Toffees and the Black Cats successful the mediate of the Premier League table, and Europe is inactive not mathematically retired of the question for either.

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The last location crippled of a archetypal play astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium awaits Everton, whose caller crushed has not yet achieved fortress status, evidenced by Moyes's men winning conscionable 33% of their Premier League location games successful 2025-26.

Nevertheless, Sunday's hosts are inactive successful with a slim accidental of forcing their mode into the apical seven, contempt lone taking 3 points from the past 15 connected connection during a five-match winless run, their longest specified series of the campaign.

Twice Everton led against Crystal Palace past weekend, and doubly the Conference League finalists fought backmost successful a 2-2 gully astatine Selhurst Park, leaving the 10th-placed Toffees 4 points shy of the apical seven.

Formerly associated with tight, low-scoring affairs nether Moyes, Everton's caller matches person taken an unexpectedly chaotic turn; astatine slightest 3 goals person been scored successful each of their past six games, portion a full of 20 person flown successful crossed their past 5 matches.

The Toffees person conceded astatine slightest doubly successful each of their 5 games during their existent winless streak, though, whereas Sunderland person positioned themselves among the league's champion successful a clean-sheet sense.

Sunday's visitors registered their 11th shut-out of the Premier League play - the fourth-most down Arsenal, Manchester City and Crystal Palace - against Manchester United past weekend, albeit portion frustratingly failing to find a mode done astatine the different end.

The Black Cats could - and should - person capitalised connected Michael Carrick making a fistful of changes with Champions League shot secured, but they had to settee for a goalless gully with a Senne Lammens-inspired Man Utd, leaving them with a perfectly symmetrical Premier League record.

Sunderland's 36 top-flight matches person brought 12 wins, 12 draws and 12 defeats to appropriately permission Regis Le Bris's men 12th successful the table, 5 points disconnected the apical seven, a presumption that has earned the visiting manager a Premier League Manager of the Season nomination.

Like their hosts, however, Sunderland's Premier League play is besides petering retired with conscionable 2 points from their past 4 matches, portion lone 4 of their top-flight distant games each twelvemonth person ended successful victory.

The Black Cats person already tasted occurrence astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium erstwhile this season, though, prevailing connected penalties successful the 3rd circular of the FA Cup aft besides holding Everton to a 1-1 gully astatine the Stadium of Light successful the apical flight.

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Team News

Everton came retired of their gully with Palace with nary caller concerns connected the wounded front, but seasoned midfielder Idrissa Gueye remains a flimsy uncertainty for Sunday owed to the insignificant wounded that kept him retired of the travel to Selhurst Park.

Jack Grealish (foot) and Jarrad Branthwaite (thigh) are the hosts' lone 2 guaranteed absentees astatine the clip of writing, but the former's omission has not proved arsenic costly arsenic feared acknowledgment to the caller goalscoring feats of Beto.

The Guinea-Bissau planetary bagged Everton's 2nd astatine Selhurst Park past weekend, his 5th extremity from his past 5 games successful the Premier League, having scored conscionable 4 successful his erstwhile 30 earlier that.

As for Sunderland, the Black Cats failed with an entreaty implicit Daniel Ballard's reddish paper against Wolverhampton Wanderers earlier the gully with Man United, truthful the suspended centre-back volition not play again this season.

Le Bris stated that lone Ballard and Romaine Mundle (thigh) would beryllium sidelined for the sojourn of the Red Devils, but winger Bertrand Traore besides missed that crippled with a genu injury, albeit 1 that has present cleared up.

Fellow wide antheral Nilson Angulo and Jocelin Ta Bi were some successful the matchday squad successful gameweek 36 aft recovering from their ain blows, but neither should unit their mode into the archetypal XI here.

Everton imaginable starting lineup:

Pickford; O'Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Garner, Iroegbunam; Rohl, Dewsbury-Ball, Ndiaye; Beto

Sunderland imaginable starting lineup:

Roefs; Geertruida, Mukiele, Alderete, Reinildo; Xhaka, Sadiki; Hume, Le Fee, Talbi; Brobbey

We say: Everton 1-1 Sunderland

Neither Everton nor Sunderland should instrumentality their ft disconnected the state with Europe inactive connected the line, and the Black Cats should consciousness assured of capitalising connected the Toffees' caller antiaircraft woes.

Moyes's men person recovered their groove successful onslaught too, however, and we are uncovering it intolerable to abstracted the 2 teams, who could play retired a 3rd 1-1 gully successful 90 minutes this season.

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