Everton vs Wolverhampton Wanderers - prediction, team news, lineups

Everton play big to Wolverhampton Wanderers successful the EFL Cup 3rd circular connected Wednesday night.

At a clip erstwhile the Toffees beryllium successful seventh presumption successful the Premier League table, Wolves are seventh successful the Championship standings.

Match preview

Despite the vexation with however Everton ended the summertime transportation window, they person softly gone astir putting unneurotic a coagulated commencement to the campaign.

Trailing Bournemouth and Manchester United heading into added-on time, it could person been different, but last-gasp equalisers person helped David Moyes's broadside enactment unneurotic a four-game unbeaten streak successful the Premier League.

However, pursuing the opening-weekend triumph implicit Crystal Palace, 3 successive draws person been posted, the different coming versus Tottenham Hotspur connected Saturday evening successful a goalless stalemate.

That was the 3rd cleanable expanse successful 5 games crossed each competitions, with Everton thrashing Preston North End by a 4-0 scoreline successful the 2nd circular of the EFL Cup.

Meanwhile, Wolves are embarking connected their 4th successive distant fixture aft trips to West Ham United, Birmingham City and Sheffield United.

Collecting conscionable 1 constituent from the archetypal 2 of that triple-header accrued the stakes up of Sunday's sojourn to Bramall Lane, but Raul Jimenez's precocious victor secured a 1-0 triumph for Cesar Peixoto's side.

The cleanable expanse successful Yorkshire was Wolves' archetypal successful the Championship this season, emphasising that remains an country of interest for the Portuguese.

Nevertheless, sitting successful seventh spot and trailing leaders West Ham by 3 points with a crippled successful hand, Peixoto volition beryllium softly satisfied with however helium has began beingness astatine Molineux.

Wolves bushed Everton successful past season's EFL Cup, albeit successful the West Midlands, portion they besides secured a 1-1 gully successful the corresponding fixture astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium successful the 2025-26 Premier League.

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Team News

Jake O'Brien, Michael Keane, Hayden Hackney, Carlos Alcaraz, Jack Grealish and Tyler Dibling could each beryllium drafted into the Everton XI.

Moyes whitethorn besides see handing an accidental to 18-year-old Braiden Graham, alert that helium has to negociate the minutes of Thierno Barry owed to Everton's deficiency of accepted centre-forwards.

Merlin Rohl volition beryllium assessed aft missing Saturday's fixture astatine Spurs, but Christian Norgaard volition stay absent until aft the September planetary break.

Wolves goalkeeper Joao Virginia could marque his Wolves debut against his erstwhile club, portion Ghislain Konan and Sean Neave whitethorn besides marque their archetypal starts aft their respective deadline-day moves.

Despite his instrumentality from wounded connected Sunday, Kieran Trippier whitethorn not beryllium risked from the start, and Nasser Djiga volition not diagnostic aft being withdrawn successful the 2nd fractional versus Sheffield United.

Young defender Saheed Olagunju is successful enactment for a commencement successful defence aft his extremity against Sheffield Wednesday successful the erstwhile round, but caller signing Bertrand Traore volition apt lone beryllium named connected the substitutes' seat astatine best.

Everton imaginable starting lineup:

Pickford; O'Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Garner; Dibling, Hackney, Alcaraz, Grealish; Barry

Wolverhampton Wanderers imaginable starting lineup:

Virginia; Tchatchoua, Olagunju, T Gomes, Konan; Bo Traore, Doyle; Neave, James, R Gomes; Jimenez

We say: Everton 3-1 Wolverhampton Wanderers

Moyes and his Everton players volition instrumentality thing for granted against a Wolves broadside that are playing charismatic shot successful the Championship. However, Peixoto's broadside person looked acold from unafraid successful defence, and we consciousness that the Toffees' superior prime volition radiance through, peculiarly erstwhile Wolves volition apt tract a weakened starting lineup.

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