Everton vs Manchester City: Prediction, Preview, Betting And Match Odds

Manchester City may not be top of the table but last week’s 8-0 demolition of Watford showed that when on form they are still the class act in the Premier League.

The surprise defeat at Norwich means they are five points behind Liverpool after the first six matches and possibly cannot afford too many more slip-ups given the consistency that both teams have shown in recent seasons.

Everton’s confidence has been hit by two successive defeats and a City win by at least three goals at 19/10 is our opening Everton vs Man City prediction.

Everton vs Manchester City: Match Odds

It will come as absolutely no shock who the favourites are for this game.

Manchester City go into the clash at odds of 3/10.

While Man City certainly seem the safe bet, returns would be very small.

That’s also considering that City were beaten by Norwich just two weeks ago.

If you’re feeling brave and bold, Everton are priced at 8/1 to win the game.

While many have already written the Toffees off, it wouldn’t be *that* much of a surprise if there was an upset.

Norwich proved recently that City are not invincible, and Everton beat all of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United at home last season without conceding a single goal.

That being said, we still predict a 3-1 win for the visitors, which you can find priced at a decent 10/1.

Moving onto the goalscorer market, the usual suspects top the charts.

Sergio Aguero is the favourite to score first, priced at 3/1.

Raheem Sterling and Gabriel Jesus follow, both priced at 4/1.

Richarlison is Everton’s most likely man to score first according to the bookies, priced at 10/1 to net the opening goal.

Kevin De Bruyne is our pick to score first considering his recent form and value for money, with the Belgian priced at 15/2.

Match Preview

Everton have some serious work to do if they’re to turn around their campaign.

Despite it looking as though the Toffees could be onto something special ahead of the season, Everton are in the midst of a mini-crisis.

After an average start to the season, the wheels have well and truly come off in the Premier League.

A 3-1 loss to Bournemouth a couple of weeks ago had alarm bells ringing, with Marco Silva’s side comfortably beaten.

You could have put the result down to a bad day at the office, but that loss was followed up by an even more embarrassing result the week after.

Newly promoted Sheffield United came to Goodison Park, a place where Chelsea, Arsenal and Man United all lost last season, and walked away with a 2-0 win.

No bite, no creativity and no ideas are the best ways to sum up Everton’s performance.

Everton’s problems were laid bare in front of the Goodison faithful when Marco Silva brought on Theo Walcott for Seamus Coleman, with any notion of a formation thrown out the window in a last-ditch attempt to salvage something.

While Everton did get back to winning ways against the Blades’ rivals Sheffield Wednesday in midweek, it could get embarrassing for the Toffees this weekend.