Everton are set to play host to Crystal Palace at Goodison Park tonight for their latest Premier league fixture.
Everton come into this game on the back of a 2-0 loss to Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City at Goodison Park in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. Late second-half goals from German midfielder Ilkay Gundogan and Belgium international Kevin De Bruyne ensured victory for Manchester City.
Crystal Palace, on the other hand, beat Sam Allardyce’s West Bromwich Albion 1-0 at Selhurst Park in their most recent English Premier League game. A first-half penalty from Serbian midfielder Luka Milivojevic sealed the deal for Roy Hodgson’s Crystal Palace.
Everton manager Carlo Ancelotti will be unable to call upon the services of goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, French midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure, Brazilian winger Bernard and England international Fabian Delph. There are doubts over the availability of Colombian forward James Rodriguez.
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Meanwhile, Crystal Palace will be without French centre-back Mamadou Sakho and Republic of Ireland international James McCarthy. There are doubts over the availability of Scottish midfielder James McArthur, right-back Nathaniel Clyne, young defender Nathan Ferguson and centre-back James Tomkins.
Everton are unbeaten in their last 12 Premier League meetings with Crystal Palace (W6 D6), though they’ve not done the league double over the Eagles since the 2004-05 campaign.
Crystal Palace have kept just one clean sheet in their last 18 Premier League away games (W5 D2 L11), with that coming in a goalless draw at Arsenal in January. Only Sheffield United (0) have kept fewer clean sheets on the road than the Eagles this season.
Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin has scored 14 Premier League goals this season, his best return in a single campaign in the competition. Six of his 14 goals have been headers, with Tim Cahill the last Everton player to score more headed goals in a single league campaign (7 in 2009-10).
Four of Crystal Palace’s five Premier League wins against Everton have been at Goodison Park, with their most recent victory there coming in September 2014 (3-2).
Westham United will head to Molineux on Monday evening knowing that a win over Wolverhampton Wanderers would take them into fourth position in the Premier League table
The Hammers are currently fifth in the division, two points behind fourth-placed Chelsea, while Wolves occupy 13th position, nine points clear of the relegation zone.
The London club will enter the contest off the back of a 3-3 draw with Arsenal on March 31; West Ham raced into a three-goal lead against the Gunners at the London Stadium but were ultimately made to settle for a share of the spoils courtesy of a fightback from the visitors.
Moyes’s team lost their last away league match at Manchester United in the middle of March and will know that they cannot afford many slip-ups in order to claim a top-four position.
Meanwhile, Wolves has been quite disappointing this season with a total of 35 points from 29 matches leaving them down in 13th position in the table.
Nuno Espirato Santos side have finished seventh in each of the last two Premier League campaigns but will not be able to challenge for a potential Europa League spot in the final weeks of this season unless there is a dramatic turn of events.
Rui Patricio is available for Wolves after being knocked out in a collision with Conor Coady in last month’s 1-0 defeat by Liverpool.
Joao Moutinho is a doubt after picking up a problem while on international duty with Portugal but Daniel Podence is back in training following a groin issue.
West Ham could welcome defender Arthur Masuaku (knee) back into their squad for the trip up to the West Midlands.
Hammers boss David Moyes remains without Darren Randolph (hip), Angelo Ogbonna (ankle) and Andriy Yarmolenko (knee) for Monday’s clash.
West Ham are looking to complete their first league double over Wolves since the 1922-23 second division campaign, with this the 28th different season in which they’ve met since then.
Wolves have opened the scoring in just seven Premier League games this season, with no side scoring the first goal in fewer games so far. However, Wolves are the only team to be unbeaten in games in which they’ve scored first this term (W6 D1).
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