Key events
6min: It’s all Tottenham in the early stages. Everton have barely had a touch.
5 min: Chance! Robertson delivers a free-kick deep into the box, a devilish ball in, It comes to Van Hecke at the back post and he blazes a half volley over the bar!
3min: Sávio shows his skills on the left and skins a couple of Everton defenders, his cross is blocked though and there’s no clear cut chance. The home fans are roaring their side on.
1min: Spurs have settled early and are pinging the ball around the edge of Everton’s box, the camera finds a couple of young fans in the crowd who hold up a sign: “Please score a goal”. Not sure who they support…
Peeeeeep! Everton kick off, let’s go.
The players emerge, handshakes and mascots all round. Spurs in white and Everton in their moss green away kit.
“It’s very simple, I am saying sack De Zerbi” emails AnhTuan Nguyen Huynh. You heard it here first.
The match reports from today’s earlier games have landed:
About that lack of goals…
Spurs have failed to score in any of their three Premier League games this season and thus if the Tofees keep a clean sheet today then it will be the first time Spurs have failed to score in their first four league games of a season.
No pressure then. Roberto De Zerbi’s side have not scored in 317 minutes (over five hours) of Premier League action.
David Moyes is talking to Sky Sports with about fifteen minutes to go until kick off. I’ll post a quote or two in a second – in the meantime get your noodle around these pre-match stats:
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Tottenham have only lost one of their last 17 Premier League home games against Everton (W12 D4).
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Everton lost both Premier League meetings with Tottenham last season by an aggregate score of 4-0, but have never lost three in a row to Spurs without scoring in their league history.
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Everton are winless in their last six away league games, alternating between defeat (3) and a draw (3) each time.
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Only Brighton (34) and Crystal Palace (32) have forced more high turnovers than Everton (28) in the Premier League this season, with the Toffees’ seven shots following a high turnover the joint-most so far.
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Tottenham’s next home loss will be their 50th at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the competition.
Elsewhere:
Here are the teams:
Tottenham Hotspur (4,2,3,1) : Kinsky, Gray, Van Hecke, Van de Ven, Robertson; Bentancur, Tonali; Sávio, Bruno Fernandes, Marmoush; Solanke.
Tottenham substitutes: Dúbravka, Tosin, Senesi, Ben Davies, Gallagher, Maddison, Bergvall, Kudus, Tel.
Everton: (4,2,3,1) Pickford, Maitland-Niles, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Harrison Armstrong, Garner; Brennan Johnson, Dewsbury-Hall, George; Barry.
Everton substitutes: Travers, Harry Tyrer/King listed by some feeds, Michael Keane, Jake O’Brien, Grealish, Dibling, Alcaraz, Hackney, Graham.
Match officials: Referee Darren England, assistants Scott Ledger and Alex James; fourth official Gavin Ward; VAR Paul Tierney, assistant VAR Adam Nunn.
Preamble
Hello and welcome to the MBM of Tottenham Hotspur v Everton. It’s 18th v 9th in the table and we can expect goals goals and more goals. Oh, actually, scratch that the statto informs me that these two sides are the two worst teams for chance quality. Hmm. I knew there was a reason they gave me this one.
Here’s a quick preview from Mr B Glendenning:
Only the most pessimistic home fans at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium will be gripped by anything resembling the kind of dread, anxiety and outright terror that accompanied Everton’s visit on the final day of last season, but the return of David Moyes’ side so early in the current campaign will still make for nervous viewing. With no goals and just one point on the board after three league games, fan faith in Roberto De Zerbi – and the hundreds of millions of pounds lavished upon new signings – has created a prevailing presumption that Tottenham will soon start firing on at least some, if not all, cylinders. In Everton, Spurs welcome a team whose record in this corner of north London is worse than any other top-flight side’s. Should they fail to beat a team who have taken just seven points from the past 51 available to them away at Tottenham, the sounds of early but outright mutiny are likely to be audible from the stands.”
Kick off 5.30pm
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