GOODISON PARK, LIVERPOOL — Everton welcome Manchester City for a Premier League clash that could have huge ramifications at both ends of the table.
With four games left to play, a superior goal difference to nearest rivals Arsenal means Pep Guardiola’s reigning champions realistically need a maximum of eight points to claim their fifth title in six seasons.
Mikel Arteta’s Gunners a point behind City having played a game more and will be hoping for a favour from Everton before they face Brighton and Hove Albion later on Sunday.
Brighton can point to the potential perils City face today, having been turned over in a stunning 5-1 defeat against Everton last time out. That moved Sean Dyche’s side out of the bottom three and they lie 17th, a point and a place above the relegation zone.
Kevin De Bruyne dropped to the bench for City after his midweek goalscoring heroics in Madrid, while Erling Haaland started. Mason Holgate replaced the absent Vitalii Mykolenko in Everton’s only change.
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Everton vs Man City live score
| 1st Half | |
| EVE | 0 |
| MCI | 0 |
Lineups:
Everton (4-3-3): 1-Jordan Pickford (GK) — 3-Nathan Patterson, 13-Yerry Mina, 2- James Tarkowski, 4-Mason Holgate — 37-James Garner, 16-Abdoulaye Doucoure, 27-Idrissa Gueye — 17-Alex Iwobi, 9-Dominic Calvert-Lewin, 7-Dwight McNeil
Man City: (4-1-4-1): Ederson (GK) — 2-Kyle Walker, 3-Ruben Dias, 14-Aymeric Laporte, 25-Manuel Akanji — 16-Rodri — 26-Riyad Mahrez, 19-Julian Alvarez, 8-Ilkay Gundogan, 47-Phil Foden — 9-Erling Haaland
Everton vs Man City live updates, highlights from the Premier League
28th minute: City work their best short-corner so far form the left. Everton need to be alive to that. The attack ends with Mahrez blasting way over from outside the box.
26th minute: McNeil swings in a free-kick from deep. Dias heads behind. Ederson punches clear. Haaland has not touched the ball yet, by the way.
23rd minute: Another left-wing corner for the visitors. Ilkay Gundogan to take. It’s short to Alvarez, who tried to work something with Mahrez. Back to Gundogan, who curls one harmlessly over the far corner. City yet to create anything of note.
22nd minute: Alvarez has been low-key impressive from deadball situations since joining City. However, he’s just leathered a corner straight into the Gwladys Street End, so that might be the last one he gets to take for a while.
20th minute: McNeil is getting back gamely to help out Holgate in his unfamiliar left-back role as City continue to target that side. Everton clear, with Calvert-Lewin again the outlet. Dias win the challenge but the hosts have a throw-in on halfway. It’s a great battle between those two so far.
17th minute: Bright from Mahrez, who retrieves a second ball and skips past McNeil. Laporte and Akanji get heads to the cross, it falls to Alvarez but there’s an offside in there somewhere.
15th minute: Foden looks to run Patterson and succeeds in winning a corner. Gundogan takes from the left, short to Alvarez and Calvert-Lewin heads his delivery clear. There’ll be a stoppage because Mina is down in the box. Possible antics from a master of the genre.
14th minute: Mahrez gets Alvarez around the back of the Everton defence but Tarkowski is there to block his cutback with Haaland lurking.
13th minute: Calvert-Lewin comes deep now in the sort of piece of play that Guardiola will quietly appreciate on the touchline. Mahrez scampers back to end the Everton attack.
12th minute: Calvert-Lewis vs Dias, mano-e-mano and DCL gets the better of the exchange. The switch in play doesn’t come off but Everton manage to snuff out City’s attempts to counter.
10. A lively start, no clear chances so far though.
🔵 0-0 🐝 #ManCity pic.twitter.com/sr9Yi7PGaA
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 14, 2023
9th minute: Tarkowski clear a Foden cross and Iwobi launches the counter, sliding a ball through to Doucoure. Against most defenders he’d be in, but Walker gets out that astonishing recovery pace to mop up under pressure.
8th minute: Mahrez cracks it to the near post where Calvert-Lewin does his defensive duties well.
7th minute: Akanji switches play to Walker. The overlapping Mahrez wins a free-kick deep down the Everton left.
6th minute: The hosts have their fist chance to pick out Mina from the left but Dias rises to clear. Dyche’s men snapping into challenges in the City half, he’ll like what he’s seen so far.
5th minute: A ropey backpass almost sells Pickford short with Haaland in close attendance. Big man-character energy with those two. The England goalkeeper boots clear and Everton win a corner.
4th minute: Calvert-Lewin makes a smart knockdown to Doucoure but the return pass for the Everton centre-forward is overhit. Right idea, though.
2nd minute: Some stuff just happened behind a pillar that I couldn’t see. Goodison Park, baby!
1st minute: Julian Alvarez gets us underway. Looks like Laporte at centre-back and Akanji at left-back for City. An early cross goes in Haaland’s general direction and Garner boots clear.
2 mins from kickoff: Z-Cars kicks in and a pretty pensive atmosphere gives way to a wall of noise as the teams emerge. Everton in their traditional blue, City in their atomic bee third strip.
🚨🥁🪈@sn_footballclub pic.twitter.com/5r1ODGaKwa
— Dom Farrell (@DomFarrell1986) May 14, 2023
15 mins from kickoff: If Everton could hand City their first defeat since February 5 it would be absolutely colossal in the context of the fight for survival. The Toffees have played 35 matches, one fewer than Leeds, who are a point and a place below them. Victory would move Everton to 35 points, up to 16th above Nottingham Forest on 34. Bottom-placed Southampton had their fate sealed yesterday, while Leicester have 30 points form 35 matches but face a daunting assignment against Champions League-chasing Liverpool on Monday.
💯 Pep Guardiola has never lost to a team managed by Sean Dyche:
⦿ 15 games
✅ 14 wins
🤝 1 draw🤯 And an aggregate score of 46-5. #EVEMCI pic.twitter.com/AeGDCdAOhH
— Sporting News Football Club (@sn_footballclub) May 14, 2023
30 mins from kickoff: One of the post-game talking points after Real Madrid 1-1 Man City was whether Antonio Rudiger had found a template when it comes to nullifying Erling Haaland. The former Chelsea man approached all his defensive work on the front foot and relished the physical battle with the hulking Norweigan. You’d think Yerry Mina, restored to form and fitness under Dyche, will take a very similar approach this afternoon. The recently crowned FWA Footballer of the Year could have a battle on his hands.
💯 Focus on tomorrow 🔵 #mancity pic.twitter.com/zA4MOku77u
— Erling Haaland (@ErlingHaaland) May 13, 2023
50 mins from kickoff: And this is how the Everton team looks. One change from midweek as Mason Holgate replaces Vitalii Mykolenko, who is presumably injured as he’s not in the matchday 18. That probably means out-of-position detail at leftback for Holgate against Riyad Mahrez, who will be trying to secure a start for City against Madrid. All the very best!
TEAM NEWS! 🔵#EVEMCI pic.twitter.com/gYHwFSKJRC
— Everton (@Everton) May 14, 2023
1 hr from kickoff: The teams are in!
TEAM NEWS! 🔵#EVEMCI pic.twitter.com/gYHwFSKJRC
— Everton (@Everton) May 14, 2023
🔵 𝐓𝐄𝐀𝐌 𝑵𝑬𝑾𝑺 🐝
XI | Ederson, Walker, Dias, Laporte, Akanji, Rodrigo, Gundogan (C), Mahrez, Alvarez, Foden, Haaland
SUBS | Ortega Moreno, Phillips, Stones, Grealish, De Bruyne, Bernardo, Gomez, Palmer, Lewis#ManCity | @HaysWorldwide pic.twitter.com/8KSA8mikXd
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 14, 2023
1 hr 20 mins from kickoff: They’re serving braised beef in the Goodison media room today and Pep Guardiola has beef with the Eurovision song contest. Well, that’s overstating it a little, but the City boss would have rathered this was a Saturday game to allow an extra day of preparation for Madrid.
But Liverpool’s hosting of the all-singing, all-dancing (literally) jamboree meant that was not possible on security grounds. As such, there will be a little more than the usual curiosity over the Guardiola teamsheet that will drop in around 20 minutes.
It sounds like Erling Haaland will start, on Dixie Dean’s manor, no less. “He had a really intense game in Madrid, he could not have done if he was tired,” Guardiola said on Friday. “I would say yeah, he can go a while, I think it’s fine.”
Glorious Goodison Park weather! 🌤️#ManCity pic.twitter.com/ge6ZG7ZTaZ
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 14, 2023
1 hr 40 mins from kickoff: The equation for Manchester City is relatively simple. On account of an advantage to the tune of 14 on goal difference, Pep Guardiola’s side realistically need eight points from their remaining Premier League games to claim a fifth title in six seasons.
A win at Goodison Park against an Everton side scrapping for their lives would take out a sizeable chunk of that. If City win and Arsenal lose later in the day against Brighton, the champions can get the job done when they host Chelsea next weekend.
Where it gets more complicated is this game’s placement in the middle of a Champions League semifinal against Real Madrid. City are fighting for honours on three fronts and Madrid are in Manchester on Wednesday following this week’s titanic battle at the Santiago Bernabeu.
Talking of the midweek action, Everton ripped up the form book to demolish Brighton 5-1 and move out of the relegation zone. From looking doomed, a positive result here would bring survival tantalisingly within reach for Sean Dyche’s side. This famous old stadium will be rocking come 2 p.m.
2 hours from kickoff: Hello and welcome to The Sporting News’ live coverage of Everton versus Manchester City at Goodison Park on another big afternoon at both ends of the Premier League table.
𝘚𝘊𝘌𝘕𝘌𝘚 from our last trip to Goodison! 🙌
⚽️ @PhilFoden pic.twitter.com/gkCH6bDQ3t
— Manchester City (@ManCity) May 14, 2023
Everton vs Man City lineups
Dyche will know that even a point in this match could be vital for Everton’s survival hopes, but it is likely that he will stick to a back four instead of a more defensive formation.
Mason Holgate replaced left-back Vitalii Mykolenko in the Toffee’s only change from the Brighton win. The Ukraine international is absent from the matchday 18.
Everton lineup (4-3-3): Pickford (GK) — Patterson, Mina, Tarkowski, Holgate — Garner, Doucoure, Gueye — Iwobi, Calvert-Lewin, McNeil
Guardiola rested Kevin De Bruyne on the bench after his Santiago Bernabeu heroics but Kyle Walker and Erling Haaland were among those starting who you presume will have big roles against Madrid on Wednesday.
Phil Foden, Riyad Mahrez and Julian Alvarez can all press their claims for a more prominent role in the second leg having been unused substitutes in training . Nathan Ake is back in training after a muscular injury but is not part of Guardiola’s matchday squad.
Man CIty lineup (4-1-4-1): Ederson (GK) — Walker, Akanji, Dias, Laporte — Rodri — Mahrez, Alvarez, Gundogan, Foden — Haaland
Everton vs Man City live stream, TV channel
| TV channel | Streaming | |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | — | Optus Sport |
| Canada | — | Fubo Canada |
| Hong Kong | Now Premier League 1 (Ch. 621) |
Now Player |
| India | — | JioTV, Hotstar VIP |
| Malaysia | Astro SuperSport | Astro Go, sooka |
| New Zealand | Sky Sport Premier League | Sky Sport NOW |
| Singapore | Hub Premier 1 (Ch. 221) |
StarHubTV+ |
| UK | Sky Sports Main Event | Sky Go |
| USA | USA Network | NBC Sports App, Telemundo Deportes En Vivo, Fubo |
UK: The match will broadcast on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League in the UK. It can also be streamed on Sky platforms.
USA: This fixture will televised on USA Network. It will be streamed on the NBC Sports App (English) as well as Telemundo Deportes En Vivo (Spanish).
Canada: Viewers from Canada can stream this game on Fubo Canada.
Australia: Optus Sport is the exclusive broadcaster of Premier League football in Australia.
Published at Sun, 14 May 2023 13:29:00 +0000
