Everton vs Arsenal Premier League preview: How to watch, lineups, selection calls & prediction

Arsenal Predicted Lineup to Face Everton – Tierney and Martinelli to Both Start

Arsenal: Ramsdale; Tomiyasu, White, Gabriel, Tierney; Sambi, Partey, Saka, Odegaard, Martinelli; Aubameyang

Everton: Pickford; Coleman, Godfrey, Keane, Digne; Townsend, Doucoure, Allan, Gray; Richarlison, Rondon

Arsenal vs Everton Score Prediction

Arsenal making the away trip to a side in dire form and desperately craving a result to kick their season back into life? It almost feels like that happened recently…

On paper, Arsenal should dominate Everton. Play them off the park. They’re a side who you find next to no joy against aerially with the ball in open play, but are invitingly susceptible at set pieces, particularly in the second and third phases, and have become extremely easy to play through.

With strong defensive structure to deal with their attempts to sit deep and transition quickly, Arsenal should be alright.

But we know this story. We’ve read this chapter so many times before. How often does a presentable opportunity come around only for Arsenal to let it slip by them? Too often. Much like the United game, in fact, where they were there for the taking just as a place in the top four positions were too.

While those soft factors could be Arsenal’s undoing, the cold hard facts are that Everton have been utterly atrocious of late, can’t score goals and are missing key players in their team: Rondon is a lamppost, Seamus Coleman is way past his best and their midfield is unbalanced.

Get Martinelli (if he plays) on Coleman all evening and the game is there for Arsenal. The Toffees’ defensive setup is surprisingly brittle for a Benitez side, and their supreme lack of confidence has to be taken advantage of.

And it will. Feeling confident on this one. Lord knows why, mind you.

Score Prediction: Everton 0-2 Arsenal