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Everton v Manchester City

  • 1730 kick-off on Sky Sports Premier League
Maro Silva: Pressure is growing on the Everton boss, even after their midweek win over Sheff Wednesday

The going has been tough for Everton's Marco Silva and the visit of Manchester City, who have scored 11 goals in the last two games, is not ideal.

The Portuguese boss leads the way in the Premier League sack race, with Everton's stats not making good reading in our latest analysis piece.

The Toffees' creativity has been lacking, averaging less than a goal per game with a 6% conversion rate, far lower than it should be for the cost and talent in their squad. But they will surely up their performance against the champions at Goodison and it would be no surprise to see Man City win with under 3.5 total goals (11/8) or something along the lines of a narrow win.

The preference, though, is to avoid the result with the market stacked in favour of Pep Guardiola's men. Instead, the first-half shots on target market provides value.

Raheem Sterling has been in fine form in the early weeks of the campaign, scoring nine goals in 10 appearances for club and country.

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Key stats

  • Manchester City’s Sergio Aguero has found the net in his last seven Premier League appearances – only three players have ever done so in eight in a row; Ruud van Nistelrooy (8 between December 2001-January 2002 and 10 between March-August 2003), Daniel Sturridge (8 between November 2013-February 2014) and Jamie Vardy (11 between August-November 2015).
  • Everton have won just one of their last 12 Premier League matches against Manchester City (W1 D4 L7), hammering City 4-0 at Goodison Park in January 2017.

Aston Villa v Burnley

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  • Aston Villa are looking to record three consecutive home Premier League clean sheets for the first time since December 2012. They’ve recorded a shutout in three of their last four top-flight games at Villa Park, as many as they had in their previous 19 such games.
  • Burnley haven’t kept a clean sheet in any of their last 10 away Premier League games (W2 D4 L4) and are winless in their last five on the road since a 3-1 win at Bournemouth in April.

AFC Bournemouth v West Ham

Key stats

  • Bournemouth are unbeaten in five Premier League matches against West Ham United (W3 D2 L0) since losing 1-0 in August 2016.
  • Bournemouth striker Callum Wilson has scored six goals in six Premier League appearances against West Ham – more than against any other opponent.

Chelsea v Brighton

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  • Chelsea have shipped 13 Premier League goals so far this season and are yet to keep a clean sheet. The last time they failed to keep a single clean sheet in their opening seven games to a top-flight season was in 1990-91.
  • Chelsea are winless in their three Premier League home games this season (D2 L1). The last time they failed to win any of their first four at Stamford Bridge in a league season was 1986-87.

Crystal Palace v Norwich

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  • Norwich’s Premier League games this season have seen 12 goals scored in the opening 30 minutes of the match (four goals scored, eight goals conceded) – no side has seen more in this time (Manchester City also 12).
  • Teemu Pukki has been involved in 89% of Norwich’s nine Premier League goals this season (6 goals, 2 assists) and has also taken 36% of their 59 shots (21) – both are leaguehigh ratios so far this season.

Tottenham v Southampton

Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham have lost 10 of their 24 Premier League games so far in 2019, their most in a single calendar year in the competition since 2014 (12/38). Of ever-present sides over the two seasons, only Brighton (13), Watford (12) and Bournemouth (11) have lost more Premier League games this year than Spurs.

Tottenham have won just twice in all competitions this season and the penalty shootout defeat to Colchester in midweek saw things go from bad to worse.

Mauricio Pochettino is not having a great time this campaign and plenty have questioned whether he will last the season in north London.

It was always going to be tough after the highs of last year in the Champions League and a glimmer of hope for the Argentinian and Spurs this weekend is the fact their two victories have both come at home.

Of all clubs to make things worse for Spurs, it could be Pochettino's old club Southampton, who beat them at St Mary's just over six months ago.

Ralph Hasenhuttl's side avoided an upset by beating rivals Portsmouth 4-0 on Tuesday, to give them extra confidence and extend their unbeaten run on the road to four matches in all competitions.

But the hosts' injury list is looking better and they should be able to field a strong side on Saturday, who will surely be playing for their manager.

Spurs have been poor defensively this term, with over 2.5 goals in six of their last seven Premier League games and it might take a win-at-all-costs approach here.

With this in mind, and Southampton's ability on the break, the visitors could get plenty of chances and they are worth looking at with an 11/10 price to register four or more shots on target.

But Sofiane Boufal is due a goal after his recent displays. We tipped him last week against Bournemouth and he racked up an astonishing five shots and is now a tempting 8/1 shot to get on the score sheet at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The Morocco international is hungry, performing well, at least finding openings and it should come sooner rather than later. This could be the perfect game for him.

Prediction: Spurs 3-1 Southampton ()

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  • Tottenham’s last eight Premier League victories have been in home games – they last had a longer run of wins coming exclusively at home between April 2000-January 2001 (10).
  • Southampton are looking to win three consecutive away top-flight games for the first time since February 2015 (a run of four), while the last time they did so without conceding was in April 1992. However, Saints have lost eight of their last 10 league games in London (W1 D1).

Wolves v Watford

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Key stats

  • Watford have conceded at least once in each of their last 18 Premier League games – only between September 1999 and March 2000 have they had a longer run without a clean sheet in the top-flight (20 games).
  • Watford are winless in 10 Premier League games (D3 L7), their longest such run in the competition since January 2007 (11 games).

Sheffield United v Liverpool

  • 1230 BST kick-off on BT Sport
John Lundstram (right) celebrates his goal against Crystal Palace at Bramall Lane

Sheffield United have started well on their return to the Premier League, collecting more points (eight) than the other newcomers in Norwich and Aston Villa and they will be fired up for this one.

Chris Wilder's side have showed a fearless and battling approach so far and providing plenty of entertainment in the process, including coming from two down to draw with Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.

They welcome league leaders Liverpool, who have won six of six and look like they will take some stopping at the minute with efficient and effective performances.

In total, Jurgen Klopp's men are on a 15-match winning run, unbeaten in the Premier League for a total of 23 games. But it has to end sooner or later.

With the home crowd behind them, there is plenty of value in backing the hosts in a +1 handicap at 2/1 but both teams' corner stats make interesting reading when looking towards the betting markets.

The Blades sit sixth in the standings for total corners taken this season with 38 and they average an impressive nine per home game. Liverpool, meanwhile, are second in the overall corner standings with 44 and they average seven a game on the road.

With this in mind, looking at overall corners taken is an appealing option with action expected at both ends.

Over 12.5 corners stands out with a best price of 27/10, with no reliance on the result in the event of a shock result from the battling Blades in the early kick-off.

Prediction: Sheff United 1-1 Liverpool ()

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Key stats

  • Bramall Lane is one of only three grounds Liverpool have played at without winning in the Premier League (three games), along with Nottingham Forest’s City Ground (five games) and Blackpool’s Bloomfield Road (one game).
  • In Liverpool’s current run of 15 consecutive Premier League wins, they’ve scored 42 goals. Their front three of Sadio Mane (12), Mohamed Salah (9) and Roberto Firmino (6) have scored 64% of those goals, with there being just one game in which none of the trio have found the net during this run (2-0 vs Cardiff in April).

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