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Everton haven’t won away at Wolves since January 2021 – when there were no fans in the stadium due to the Covid-enforced lockdown.
In fact they’ve only won four of 12 games against Wanderers since the midlands club returned to the Premier League for the 2018/19 season and only one of those was away from home.
Speaking of Mr Brewin, his report from Aston Villa’s win over Brentford has just landed. Busy man.
This is a cracking column from Macclesfield’s finest John Brewin on modern day pundits. His point is well summed up in this line: “A Manchester United player of 2025 has even fewer places to hide than his 90s Liverpool equivalent.”
Presumably the Premier League are tweeting such things out because there’s precious little else to play for in the final two months of the season?
Matheus Cunha will be a huge miss for Wolves today. His needless headbutt on Bournemouth left-back Milos Kerkez in the FA Cup last week was a complete loss of composure and leaves his team without their talisman – and could incur a further ban, with the FA to potentially extend the three-game suspension to four, given precious indiscretions.
Marshall Munetsi, signed from Reims in January, makes just his third start for the club instead. The pressure will be on the Zimbabwean to step up.
It’s 16th v 17th and if Wolves win today they’ll virtually be in a league of their own, still trailing Everton by seven points and eight clear of Ipswich and Leicester, who are on 22 points. An Everton win would keep the gap between 17th and 18th at five points, with Leicester going to Chelsea tomorrow seeking an unlikely win that would close it to just two.
A lot of permutations and ramifications, there, but there’s not much of a relegation scrap to get excited about. It’s not exactly final day 2005.
Team news
Wolves (3-4-3): Sá; Doherty, Agbadou, T. Gomes; Semedo, André, J.Gomes, Aït-Nouri; Munetsi, Bellegarde, Strand Larsen.
Subs: Johnstone, Bueno, Hwang, R. Gomes, Doyle, Sarabia, Guedes, Djiga, Lima.
Everton (4-3-3): Pickford; O’Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Gueye, Garner, Doucouré; Lindstrøm, Harrison, Beto.
Subs: Begovic, Virgínia, Patterson, Keane, Chermiti, Young, Coleman, Alcaraz, Iroegbunam.
Our current live football offering comes from the Gtech Community Stadium where Ollie Watkins has scored against his old side. Niall McVeigh has the updates.
Preamble
Hello! A few weeks ago this might have been a tantalising relegation six-pointer under the Molineux Saturday night lights. Now, however, thanks largely to the dire form of the three clubs in the drop zone and the impact of new managers at Wolves and Everton, it holds less significance.
Credit must go to both Vítor Pereira and David Moyes, who have re-energised clubs whose football was becoming stale and stagnant and whose results wavered majorly earlier in the season, to the point where Ipswich and Leicester (probably never Southampton) harboured genuine hopes of survival. Not so much anymore – even if a Wolves loss in this one will keep the aforementioned duo vaguely interested.
We’ll run through the team news shortly before the 8pm (GMT) kickoff. Let’s go!
