Everton will be looking to bounce back from their disappointing week when they take on winless Norwich this weekend.
The Toffees had four wins from five to start the campaign, but the pressure has since returned with a 3-0 Premer League defeat to Aston Villa last Saturday.
They were then knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Championship side QPR in midweek and will be desperate to return to winning ways.
Norwich meanwhile are in dire straights with boss Daniel Farke setting a record of the longest losing run by any manager in English top flight history
The Canaries sit rock-bottom of the table with zero points from five matches, conceding 14 goals and scoring just two.
However, there is hope for Norwich who earned one of their five wins they achieved the last time they were in the Premier League during this fixture.
Goals from Todd Cantwell and Dennis Srbeny sealed a 2-0 win at Goodison Park back in November 2019.
Everton v Norwich: talkSPORT commentary
The Premier League clash is due to take place on Saturday, September 25 and will kick-off at 3pm.
Full coverage from Goodison Park will be exclusively live on talkSPORT 2, with our pre-match build-up starting at 2:30pm.
Commentary from the Merseyside fixture will come from Ian Danter and former Arsenal winger Perry Groves.
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Everton v Norwich: Team news
Rafael Benitez has seen his side’s downturn in form coincide with a number of injuries to his top stars including Richarlison.
Brazilian Richarlison has been out since picking up a knock against Burnley and he may not be back until after the next international break.
Jordan Pickford also got injured in that game and he, alongside club captain Seamus Coleman, is set for a few weeks on the sidelines.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin is continuing to suffer from a broken toe and a quad injury meaning Salomon Rondon is in line to start up top again.
Fabian Delph and Jean-Philippe Gbamin were absent for the defeat to QPR meaning boss Benitez will be forced to shuffle the pack on Saturday.
As for Norwich, Todd Cantwell missed the midweek defeat to Liverpool for personal reasons and it’s yet to be revealed whether he’s back in action.
Christoph Zimmermann remains the club’s only injury doubt but Prezmysław Płacheta is also unavailable after testing positive for Covid-19.
Everton v Norwich: Match stats
- Everton have only lost one of their last seven home league meetings with Norwich (W4 D2), though it was the last time the side’s met at Goodison Park in November 2019 (0-2).
- After winning three of their first four Premier League meetings with Everton (D1), Norwich have won just two of their subsequent 14 against the Toffees in the competition (D6 L6).
- Everton have lost three of their last four home league games against sides starting the day bottom of the table (W1), including a defeat against Norwich in November 2019. The Toffees had only lost three of their previous 17 league matches at Goodison Park against bottom placed sides before this (W10 D4).
- Everton have won each of their last three home league games, last winning more consecutively at Goodison Park between March and September 2019 under Marco Silva (6).
- Norwich have earned just six points from their last 72 available away from home in the Premier League (W1 D3 L20), and are winless in 14 on the road since beating Everton 2-0 in November 2019.
- Everton are averaging 3.6 sequences of 10+ passes per match in the Premier League this season, with only Burnley (2.6) averaging fewer. Under Carlo Ancelotti last season, the Toffees were averaging 10.7 such sequences per game, ranking 10th overall in the competition.
- Norwich City boss Daniel Farke has lost his last 15 Premier League games – this is the longest losing run by a specific manager in English top-flight history.
- Norwich goalkeeper Tim Krul has been on the losing side in 99 of his 198 Premier League appearances. Only three players have ever suffered their first 100 defeats in fewer than 200 games in the competition – forward Steven Fletcher (185), defender Paul Robinson (192) and forward Matthew Jarvis (193).
- No player has scored more Premier League goals for Everton this season than new signing Demarai Gray, with his three goals coming from just three shots on target so far. Only in 2018-19 has Gray scored more goals in a single top-flight campaign (4).
- Over their last two Premier League seasons, Teemu Pukki has scored 46% of Norwich’s Premier League goals (13/28), netting both of the Canaries’ goals so far this campaign.
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