Everton vs Fulham Prediction

Mixed form on both sides

Everton's recent matches, taken across competitions, show nine wins, six draws and five losses from twenty games, with 28 scored and 18 conceded. That includes a Premier League spell where they've beaten Newcastle and Ipswich but lost to Arsenal and Chelsea in the same stretch.

Everton: 20 completed matches; Fulham: 20 completed matches.

Everton

20 matches

Win

45% 9 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

28

Conceded

18

Difference

+10

Fulham

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

30% 6 / 20

Loss

35% 7 / 20

Scored

25

Conceded

23

Difference

+2

Fulham's sample over the same length of time reads seven wins, six draws and seven losses from twenty games, scoring 25 and conceding 23. Their last five league outings swing from a win at Coventry to a loss at Ipswich, so there's no clear momentum either way.

Neither team is arriving with any real consistency, so recent form alone doesn't point strongly in one direction.

Comparative Team Statistics: Everton vs Fulham

Everton have won the last three meetings

Going back through the head-to-head record, Everton have taken all three of the most recent games against Fulham, including two wins away at Fulham's ground and one at home. Before that stretch the fixture had been far more even, with draws and away wins mixed in across the years.

It's a short run rather than a long-term pattern, but it's the clearest trend in the data for this fixture.

Two sides close together near the bottom half

Everton currently sit 14th with 10 points from eight games, while Fulham are just below in 15th with nine points from nine. There isn't much separating them on goals either, with both teams conceding more than they'd like.

This is evidence for the teams involved rather than the whole division, but it does suggest a fairly tight contest on paper.

Discipline worth keeping an eye on

Both sides have a player already picking up bookings at a notable rate. Everton's J. Garner and Fulham's T. Castagne have each collected two yellow cards in their last five matches apiece.

Everton:

Penalty cards:

J. Garner x 2

Fulham:

Penalty cards:

T. Castagne x 2

That's not a huge sample, but it's enough to suggest neither side is dealing in a card-free kind of game lately.