There is one remaining Premier League match this weekend and it comes from Goodison Park as Everton host Crystal Palace in the Monday Night Football. Whoever wins this match will move into the top six in the Premier League table which is a decent incentive for them both.
Everton haven’t had the best of times of it at home and their collapse late on to Bournemouth last week puts the pressure on them in this match which isn’t ideal but the one positive is they are scoring goals which will give them some encouragement.
Palace are the opposite to be fair. They have picked up better results on the road than at home this season and won on Merseyside just prior to the international break when they took care of Liverpool and that will give them plenty of inspiration in this match.
Leighton Baines returned for Everton in the cup in midweek but he is being phased back to full action and so he is unlikely to play in this one. James McCarthy missed out in midweek with injury and faces a fitness test ahead of this game.
Alan Pardew’s side will be without Wilfried Zaha for this match as he is suspended and that will have an impact on their attacking options although Yannick Bolasie and Connor Wickham have been pretty influential in recent times. Patrick Bamford is a possible replacement for Zaha.
Everton look a little short to me on the face of it here. Already this season Watford, Sunderland and Man Utd have scored twice or more against the Toffees on this ground and Palace certainly have goals in them.
The positive for Everton fans is they have scored two or more here in four of their seven home matches so I’m expecting to see some goals here. I think the 4/5 on over 2.5 goals in this match just looks a natural bet even allowing for the odd tight Monday night game this season.
I just fancy this one to be end to end with lots of goal action and come the final whistle I think we will have seen three goals at the very least and maybe one or two more.
Ross Barkley is in sensational form right now. He’s one of the star midfielders in the Premier League and has scored three goals in his last three games. With England goals included the talented playmaker has nine goals on the season almost unnoticed and I think he can trouble this Palace defence here.
The attention will be on Romelu Lukaku and that is understandable but Barkley could well be the forgotten man and he looks far too big to score anytime at 9/4.
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