Everton vs Bournemouth Prediction and Betting Tips: Back these two shouts for 3pm game
Everton will be looking to drag themselves off the bottom of the Premier League when they face Bournemouth.
Everton vs Bournemouth Predictions
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The game kicks off at 15:00 BST on Saturday 31st August, so the clash at Goodison Park will not be televised live. It took a string of strong closing results to ensure Everton overcame a points deductions and didn't fall into relegation trouble last season, but the start Sean Dyche’s side have endured could have hardly been worse.
The Toffees found themselves in a sticky situation after falling to a 3-0 opening defeat at home to Brighton and were then outclassed in a 4-0 loss at Tottenham last week.
They beat Bournemouth on the last day two seasons ago to maintain their top-flight status and they face another tough clash against the Cherries, who have started their campaign with two 1-1 draws against Nottingham Forest and Bournemouth.
Manager Andoni Iraola was fuming after his team were denied a late winner against the Magpies, which should heighten their determination to claim their first victory of the campaign.
It will take more than a 3-0 EFL Cup victory over Doncaster to lift the gloom at Everton and their strong end to last season looks like a distant memory following heavy defeats to Brighton and Tottenham.
Any early optimism already looks to have been extinguished in their final season at Goodison and it has to be a concern that the only game in which they have posted an expected-goals (xG) figure of more than two in their last 13 league games was against last
season’s whipping boys Sheffield United. So it looks worth chancing that Bournemouth can leave Merseyside with the points on Saturday.
The Cherries will feel aggrieved that a couple of refereeing decisions have not gone their way in their last two games - Dango Outtara’s late goal was harshly disallowed in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with Newcastle and there was a strong suspicion that Jarrow Bowen’s winner for West Ham in the EFL Cup was offside when there was no VAR in operation.
So Iraola’s side look to be knocking on the door and this is a trip from which they can gain three points.
Bournemouth have to cope without Dominic Solanke, who scored 19 goals last season, who has left for Tottenham, but one player who has flown out of the blocks in the new campaign is Antoine Semenyo.
He scored the Cherries’ goal in their opening 1-1 draw at Nottingham Forest and has demonstrated that he is not going to be shy at having attempts on goal.
Semenyo had five shots at the City Ground and seven against Newcastle last week, while he averaged almost three per league appearance during last season.
He has been their liveliest player, perhaps revelling in the extra responsibility following Solanke’s departure, and he looks a big price to score the game’s first goal at Everton on Saturday.
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