Football Preview | Everton v Fulham

Can Fulham build on last weekend's success?

Two Premier League teams sitting in the bottom half of the table square off in Merseyside as Everton play host to Fulham. 

Author | Jamie Pugh

Stadium | Hill Dickinson Stadium

The Toffees and the Cottagers meet for the first time since May when the former secured a 3-1 top-flight victory at Craven Cottage thanks to goals from Vitaliy Mykolenko, Michael Keane and Beto.

Notes from press conference | Silva looking forward to another Everton return

Marco Silva is anticipating his first visit to Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The head coach spent a season and a half at Everton and had previously returned to Goodison Park with Fulham, but this will be a new experience as the club has moved to its new home at Bramley-Moore Dock.

“It's going to be a good feeling, for sure,” Silva said when asked about the trip. “It’s always good when you go back to a place where you are going to see familiar faces and some people that you know very well, and people that treat you very, very well.

“Some people in that structure, some players, they are still there from our time as well. And what I expect is always the same that I got the other times before, to have some good conversation before and after the match with people that I know very, very well, and people that welcome us always very well in that football club.”

This will be Fulham's away end

Key stats to think about

Fulham have lost only one of their last seven Premier League encounters with Everton, winning three and drawing three, although that defeat came in their most recent meeting at Craven Cottage in May, when they lost 3-1.

The Cottagers secured their third league victory of the season last weekend, all of which have come at home. They have lost their last four away fixtures, with the last longer run of consecutive away defeats occurring between November and January in the 2023-24 season.

A closer look at the opposition

Everton claimed a dramatic 2-1 victory over Crystal Palace at home at the start of October, coming from behind to secure the points, but they have since gone three Premier League games without a win.

Consecutive defeats without scoring against Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur were followed by a 1-1 draw at Sunderland last Monday, when Iliman Ndiaye’s superb solo effort was cancelled out just 43 seconds after the break by Granit Xhaka. The result leaves Everton in 14th place, five points adrift of both the relegation zone and the top six.