Premier League | Gameweek 29

Mar 15, 2025 at 3pm UK

Goodison Park

Everton vs West Ham

Match preview

Since losing his first game in charge of Everton at home to Aston Villa (1-0) in mid-January, David Moyes has guided the Toffees to an eight-match unbeaten run in the Premier League (W4 D4) - the club's longest since a nine-match unbeaten run under Ronald Koeman between December 2016 and February 2017.

No team in the top flight has drawn more games this season than Everton (12), who have taken a point from four of their last five matches, drawing their last three with Manchester United (2-2), Brentford (1-1) and most recently Wolves (1-1) last weekend.

Everton's relegation fears have evaporated thanks to the influence of Moyes, who has his side 15th in the Premier League table, 16 points clear of the bottom three and just six points behind 11th-placed Crystal Palace with 10 games remaining.

The Toffees' improvements in attack have contributed to their impressive upturn in form. They have scored 16 goals in just nine league games under Moyes, one more than they managed in their previous 19 games under former boss Sean Dyche.

Everton will need to continue to create in the final third on Saturday if they are to overcome a West Ham side who have beaten the Merseysiders four times in their last six top-flight visits to Goodison Park, with the Hammers last winning 3-1 in March last season.

After back-to-back wins over Arsenal (1-0) and Leicester City (2-0), West Ham failed to record a third successive win under Graham Potter on Monday night as they went down 1-0 at home to Newcastle United.

Bruno Guimaraes' second-half strike condemned the Hammers to their 13th league defeat of the season and they have now failed to score in 37.5% of their PL games under Potter (three out of eight), compared to 20% under former boss Julen Lopetegui (four out of 20). West Ham are also averaging just 9.3 shots per game in the top flight under Potter, compared to 14.6 under Lopetegui.

West Ham are not in danger of relegation, but they will be keen to end the campaign on a high by moving up from their current 16th position, and like Everton, who are level on points and one place above them, the Hammers are just six points adrift of 11th place with 10 games remaining.

On Saturday, West Ham will be reunited with former manager Moyes, who managed 198 Premier League games for the club in two separate spells between 2017 and 2024. The Hammers have won nine of their last 10 league meetings against their former bosses (D1), with Alan Pardew last beating them as Crystal Palace boss in February 2015 (3-1).

West Ham's chances of winning this weekend will be boosted if they can keep a clean sheet, having won all four of their Premier League away games this season without conceding a single goal - they have not won any of their last 12 away games when conceding at least once (D4 L8).

Recent Performance

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Team News

Everton are still without Iliman Ndiaye, Dwight McNeil, Orel Mangala (all knee) and Dominic Calvert-Lewin (thigh) as they continue to recover from injury, but Armando Broja (ankle) could return to the matchday squad for the first time since January.

Seamus Coleman recovered from a calf injury to watch on as an unused substitute last weekend, and although he is in contention to feature in some capacity against West Ham, the Irish defender is unlikely to replace compatriot Jake O'Brien at right-back.

Jack Harrison ended a 36-game Premier League goal drought with the opener against Wolves last time out, and the winger has been involved in more PL goals against West Ham than any other opponent (five - three goals, two assists) and will continue to operate on the left flank with Jesper Lindstrom on the right and Beto leading the line.

For West Ham, Michail Antonio (leg) and Crysencio Summerville (thigh) remain sidelined with injuries, while Vladimir Coufal (thigh) and Niclas Fullkrug (hamstring) are outside the matchday squad and will be assessed before kick-off.

Despite the defeat at Newcastle last time out, Potter will be tempted to stick with the same starting line-up for the fourth consecutive game, with Jean-Clair Todibo, Max Kilman and Aaron Cresswell set to continue in a three-man defence.

Oliver Scarles has been preferred to Emerson Palmieri in recent weeks and will continue at left-back, while Lucas Paqueta - who recovered from an ankle injury to come on as a substitute against Newcastle - will be pushing for a start in midfield this weekend, although Tomas Soucek, Edson Alvarez and James Ward-Prowse could all be preferred in the middle of the park.

Possible starting lineup

Everton possible starting lineup:

Pickford; O'Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Garner, Gueye; Lindstrom, Doucoure, Harrison; Beto

West Ham United possible starting lineup:

Areola; Todibo, Kilman, Cresswell; Wan-Bissaka, Soucek, Alvarez, Ward-Prowse, Scarles; Kudus, Bowen