MONDAY PREMIER LEAGUE: The Striker previews Monday’s Premier League game between WOLVES v EVERTON with a recommended BETDAQ bet and extended match stats.
WOLVES V EVERTON
8pm We have an intriguing fixture for Monday Night Football this week as Wolves host Everton. Both sides have a very similar profile this season, and there’s only one point between them in the table. Wolves are currently 2.3 favourites at the time of writing on rget=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>BETDAQ Betting Exchange, and I’m sure there will be some very big opinions on the prices here. Both sides have played some decent football this season and I’m sure this will be a very competitive affair.
Let’s start with Everton, and where did the 5-2 loss last weekend against Watford come from!? Fair to say that was a huge shock – Everton had home advantage and took the lead twice, but just collapsed in the final 12 minutes. That was clearly a very disappointing result, and it just adds to a little poor run that Everton are having. When the sides returned from the International Break Everton lost 1-0 with home advantage to West Ham, conceding an xG of 1.85 along the way. They haven’t played too badly, but they just need a result to steady ship to be honest.
Wolves arrive into this fixture unbeaten in four games, and it’s about time their results have started to reflect their performances. In my opinion Wolves have been one of the most unlucky sides this season. They started the weekend in 11th but the xG table had them in 5th – that’s quite a difference, especially compared to Everton who have basically performed in-line with their results. Wolves have had some very unlucky results – they created an xG of 1.66 and conceded 0.55 in a 1-0 loss to Leicester, created a bigger xG in their 1-0 loss to Spurs and created an xG of 2.55 to 0.86 in a 1-0 loss to Man United!
Everton are a solid side, so I’m happy to limit stakes here to reflect that this won’t be a walk in park for Wolves, but the home side are worth backing at 2.3. They have been creating a lot of chances this season and given Everton have been conceding quite a few chances in recent weeks, it seems an ideal time to back Wolves. They have everything going for them here, hopefully they take their chances this time!
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MATCH STATS
● Wolves have won just one of their last six home Premier League games against Everton (D3 L2), a 3-0 victory in July 2020.
● Everton won home and away against Wolves last season and are looking to secure three consecutive league victories against them for the first time since a run of eight between 1964 and 1970.
● Wolves have won just one of their 10 Premier League home games played on Monday (D3 L6), beating Crystal Palace 2-0 in July 2020.
● Since losing their first three Premier League matches under Bruno Lage, Wolves have taken 13 points from their six matches (W4 D1 L1). Indeed, since the start of September, only Chelsea (5) have more Premier League wins than Wolves (4).
● Everton have lost their last two Premier League matches but haven’t lost three in a row since October/November 2020 under Carlo Ancelotti.
● Only Crystal Palace (1) have scored fewer first half Premier League goals this season than Wolves (2); since returning to the top-flight in 2018-19, Wolves have scored fewer goals in the first half than any other ever-present side (49 in 123 games).
● Everton have conceded nine Premier League goals in the final 30 minutes of games this season, with only Norwich City conceding more in this time (13). Against Watford, they became only the third team in Premier League history to concede four goals in the final 15 minutes of a game, after Southampton against Derby in September 1997 and Nottingham Forest against Man Utd in February 1999.
● In what was his 349th Premier League game in charge, a side managed by Rafa Benitez conceded five goals in a game for the first time in Everton’s 5-2 defeat to Watford. The Toffees haven’t shipped five goals in back-to-back league games since September 1948 against Portsmouth and Birmingham.
● Hwang Hee-Chan has scored four goals in six Premier League matches this season for Wolves – a goal in this match would see him become the first player to score five Premier League goals within seven matches since Ollie Watkins last November, and the fastest Wolves player to score five, twice as quick as anyone else (Carl Cort and Kevin Doyle, 14 games).
● Demarai Gray has been directly involved in five goals (three goals, two assists) in nine Premier League matches for Everton this season, all starts. It is the first time he has ever started nine consecutive Premier League games, and he also netted in his last appearance against Wolves back in January 2019 for Leicester in a 4-3 loss.
