Everton v West Ham United: Premier League – live! via The Guardian
7.04pm GMT
Everton: Pickford, Kenny, Holgate, Williams, Martina, Davies, Gueye, Lennon, Rooney, Sigurdsson, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Schneiderlin, Sandro, Besic, Vlasic, Lookman, Robles, Baningime.
West Ham United: Hart, Zabaleta, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell, Kouyate, Obiang, Arnautovic, Lanzini, Masuaku, Ayew.
Subs: Adrian, Sakho, Noble, Martinez, Antonio, Fernandes, Rice.
9.28am GMT
… the biggest game in Everton’s history. Well, that’s what Match of the Day pundit and erstwhile Evertonian Martin Keown was suggesting the other night. Let’s set aside the likes of the 1928 match against Arsenal when Dixie Dean needed a hat-trick to break George Camsell’s league goalscoring record of 59, the 1933 FA Cup final, the 1966 FA Cup final, the 1984 FA Cup final, the 1985 Cup Winners Cup final, and the 1994 status-saving mission against Wimbledon … let’s not nitpick. Because you get the general drift. This
is quite a big one, after all.
It’s 17th versus 18th. A relegation six-pointer? Well, not quite. It’s way too early for that. But it’s a game which could set a tone or sour a season. A win tonight for shambolic Everton, who have lost their last two fixtures 5-1 and 4-1, would catapult them up to 14th spot; they’d be five clear of the dropzone, and with Sam Allardyce coming in, worries of a first relegation since 1951 would suddenly look a bit daft. Defeat, though, would plunge them into the relegation places. Again, it’d be far too early to seriously fret, with two thirds of the season still to play. But fret people will, these days.
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