Match Reviews & Analysis
Everton 1 – 1 Sunderland (0 – 3 on pens)
Humiliating shootout condemns stumbling Everton to early FA Cup exit
10 January, 2026
The first week of the New Year had the potential to be a defining week in the Blues’ season and it has proved to be just that. It might now effectively be over.
Everton 1 – 1 Wolves
Nine-man Everton left clinging to uninspiring point against bottom club Wolves
7 January, 2026
This game was there for Everton to win on the evidence of the first period but they handed the initiative to struggling Wolves and paid the price before descending into farce with two red cards
Everton 2 – 4 Brentford
2026 Begins with Another Hideous Showing at Hill Dickinson Stadium
4 January, 2026
A shocking first-half display from the Blues somehow got worse before Beto gave them a sliver of hope… only for Thiago to romp away and grab a deserved hat-trick with two minutes of the 90 remaining.
Nottingham Forest 0 – 2 Everton
Patched-up Blues craft superb victory at the City Ground
30 December, 2025
James Garner tormented his former club with an imperious performance, scoring the first goal and laying on the second with a sublime pass as Everton's threadbare squad ended 2025 on a high
Burnley 0 – 0 Everton
Skeleton crew fail to convince in turgid draw at Turf Moor
27 December, 2025
Shorn of their creative stars, Everton toiled through a goalless encounter with Burnley in a game that could have gone either way but probably didn't deserve a winner
Everton 0 – 1 Arsenal
Everton pay the penalty for O’Brien’s hare-brained lapse
20 December, 2025
The defender's gift-wrapped present for Arsenal made an already difficult assignment practically impossible given the lack of creativity and cutting edge up front yet the Blues were denied a clear penalty in the second half.
Chelsea 2 – 0 Everton
Déjà-vu for Everton whose Stamford Bridge hoodoo endures
13 December, 2025
A study in the disparity of squad depth and execution in front of goal between the two teams ended with familiar feelings of frustration for the Toffees on Chelsea's home ground
Everton 3 – 0 Nottingham Forest
Barry finally off the mark as Everton flatten Dyche’s Forest
6 December, 2025
In a game that was a study in how far Everton have come over the last 12 months, the Blues overpowered their former manager's team to record a fourth win in their last five matches
Bournemouth 0 – 1 Everton
Grealish grabs another winner as Everton pop their Dean Court cherry
2 December, 2025
Depleted in number and battered last time out by Newcastle, Everton ground out a deserved victory over Bournemouth on a ground that has for years held nothing but misery for them
Everton 1 – 4 Newcastle United
After the Lord Mayor’s Show…
29 November, 2025
Echoes of the Tottenham defeat as Everton were well beaten at Bramley-Moore Dock with a visiting defender plundering two headed goals
Manchester United 0 – 1 Everton
The Miracle in Manchester
24 November, 2025
Everton overcame the loss of their captain and the dismissal of Idrissa Gueye, both within just 13 minutes of kick-off, to win at Old Trafford for only the second time in 33 years
Everton 2 – 0 Fulham
Comfortable home win settles Everton nerves
8 November, 2025
David Moyes’s men served up a commendable all-round performance, their most complete of 2025/26 so far, and registered a welcome first victory over the Cottagers on home soil since 2018.
Everton 2 – 0 Fulham
Everton Right-Back on Track
8 November, 2025
The Blues beat Fulham 2-0 on Saturday with David Moyes making a positive change to his line-up.
Sunderland 1 – 1 Everton
Everton lose the plot but scrape a point against Sunderland
3 November, 2025
The Blues allowed Thierno Barry's disappointing miss to be the turning point in the game and could count themselves lucky not to have become the Black Cats' latest comeback victims
Everton 0 – 3 Tottenham Hotspur
Defensive weakness underpins Everton’s heavy first defeat at the Dock
26 October, 2025
The scoreline was harsh but from the perspective of a team that is finding goals hard to come by, the game was weighed down by a general feeling of futility and inadequacy
Manchester City 2 – 0 Everton
Everton show first-half pluck before bowing to inevitability of Haaland
18 October, 2025
The Norwegian beast ruthlessly struck two quick-fire goals in the second half to kill the latest edition of this depressingly one-sided fixture and put down what had been a spirited but toothless display from the Blues
Everton 2 – 1 Crystal Palace
Alcaraz leads the way as Grealish plunders stoppage-time winner to halt Palace run
5 October, 2025
Oliver Glasner will wonder just how his side failed to inflict on the Blues their first defeat at their new ground but David Moyes will take heart from some proactive changes that led to a stirring fightback, not least the introduction of the inspirational Charly Alcaraz
Everton 1 – 1 West Ham
Everton let Hammers off the hook by squandering two more home points
30 September, 2025
You can take the Blues out of Goodison but the disappointing feeling of letting precious leads slip against beatable opponents has made the journey from L4 to the waterfront
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 – 0 Everton
Moyes’s disrespect for the cup gets the result it deserves at Molineux
23 September, 2025
If you’ve followed this club for the past 20-odd years, you knew precisely how this evening would play out. In theory, making wholesale changes to the team should be fine; at Everton, it almost never is.
Liverpool 2 – 1 Everton
Sluggish start condemns Everton to more derby misery at Anfield
20 September, 2025
The Toffeemen left themselves a mountain to climb by conceding twice in the first 30 minutes but David Moyes will be heartened by his team's response even if he once again left this ground empty-handed
Everton 0 – 0 Aston Villa
Villa play spoilers and Beto misfires in first goalless encounter at the Dock
13 September, 2025
With more composure from Beto, the Blues might have been firmly in the driving seat by half-time but they could find no way past the inspired Emiliano Martinez in Aston Villa's goal
Everton 0 – 0 Aston Villa
Everton expectation and frustration shows progress in Villa draw
13 September, 2025
It feels like there is something building that we could really get behind so grab hold for the journey. The destination is still unknown but it’s nice to be on the right path at least.
Wolverhampton Wanderers 2 – 3 Everton
Everton’s mesmerising attacking midfield unit sparkles again to inspire rare win at Molineux
30 August, 2025
Jack Grealish weighed in with two more assists while Beto, Iliman Ndiaye and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall scored as the Blues beat Wolves on their own turf for only the second time since they regained promotion seven years ago
Everton 2 – 0 Mansfield Town
Everton make comfortable work of Mansfield
28 August, 2025
Second-half goals from Charly Alcaraz and Beto were enough to ensure that the Blues' superior quality told on the night, with Harrison Armstrong claiming an assist for both.
Everton 2 – 0 Brighton
Everton mark historic day on the waterfront with victory over Brighton
24 August, 2025
It wasn’t perfect by any means and, in truth the match could have gone either way but Hill Dickinson Stadium was officially christened with a well-earned victory, with Jack Grealish, Iliman Ndiaye and Jordan Pickford playing starring roles
Leeds United 1 – 0 Everton
Under-manned and under-cooked, Everton serve up opening-day shocker at Elland Road
18 August, 2025
This game was supposed to represent the start of a new era and a reset at Everton but it was horribly reminiscent of the very worst parts of last season
Newcastle United 0 – 1 Everton
Alcaraz presses his case for permanent move with winner for impressive Everton
25 May, 2025
Despite having nothing to play for, Everton put in a stellar performance that was as good as any this season and triumphed at St James’s Park for the first time since 2020
Everton 2 – 0 Southampton
Everton end 133-year Goodison Park era on a high
18 May, 2025
The send-off was glorious and almost perfect. Under sunny skies, as almost 40,000 Evertonians sang, chanted and danced their way through their party to honour their adored home, the Toffeemen triumphed 2-0.
Fulham 1 – 3 Everton
From Hyde to Jekyll — Everton recover to earn fine win in the London sunshine
10 May, 2025
David Moyes ordered his players to take off their summer flip-flops at half-time and was rewarded with a vastly-improved second half that yielded two more goals and a laudable away victory
Everton 2 – 2 Ipswich Town
Painfully familiar frailties see Everton spoil Goodison’s party
3 May, 2025
While there is a different manager in the dugout than the one that began the campaign, old habits and frustrating weaknesses are dying hard as the Toffees threw away another 2-0 lead
Chelsea 1 – 0 Everton
Ragged Everton frustrate in routine defeat at Chelsea
26 April, 2025
The wait to end a miserable record at Stamford Bridge goes on and, in all honesty, it never looked like 31 years without a victory here was going to end for Everton this afternoon.
Everton 0 – 2 Manchester City
City exploit Everton's defensive disarray to record one last Goodison win
19 April, 2025
Everton's hopes of grinding out another hugely creditable goalless draw against one of the best teams in the division fell apart following the second-half departures of James Tarkowski and Idrissa Gueye.
Nottingham Forest 0 – 1 Everton
Everton beat Forest at their own game to dent Trees’ Champions League tilt
12 April, 2025
For long stretches, it felt as though Moyes’s men just needed to get their act together to make the telling breakthrough and the points would be theirs. It eventually came very late but Doucouré's winner was no more than Everton deserved
Everton 1 – 1 Arsenal
Ndiaye makes scoring return in scrappy Gunners draw
5 April, 2025
This was another game where the team’s shortcomings going forward and in the final third were a source of frustration but Everton's ability to go toe-to-toe with the supposed elite should provide a solid foundation on which to build for the future
Liverpool 1 – 0 Everton
Everton can’t bridge quality gap as Anfield derby follows the script
3 April, 2025
Not for the first time, Moyes will be ruing a glaring miss by Beto that, had he converted it, would have given the Toffees something to hang on to rather than end up chasing the game
Everton 1 – 1 West Ham
O'Brien to the rescue again as Everton salvage yet another draw
15 March, 2025
Everton’s energy and intensity of the first 45 minutes were markedly absent after the interval, until Tomáš Souček’s 67th-minute goal and Moyes’s substitutions spurred them back into action
Wolves 1 – 1 Everton
Everton fail to inspire at Molineux but extend impressive unbeaten run
8 March, 2025
As the old football adages go, if you can’t win just make sure you don’t lose and if you play badly and still come out of the game with something, then it can only be a positive.
Brentford 1 – 1 Everton
Beto’s touch deserts him as Everton rue another victory spurned
26 February, 2025
The Portuguese striker found himself eyeball-to-eyeball with Mark Flekken three times and the goalkeeper foiled him on each of them but Jake O'Brien's first goal for the Club rescued a well-deserved point
Everton 2 - 2 Manchester United
Goodison denied another climax as VAR controversy takes centre-stage
22 February, 2025
If the finale to the derby ensured that the 2-2 draw with Liverpool felt like a win, this very much felt like a defeat – as painful for the giving up of another 2-0 lead as it was infuriating because of VAR injustice
Crystal Palace 1 - 2 Everton
Everton draw on last reserves to collect another fine away win
15 February, 2025
The Blues continued their incredible revival under David Moyes, gutting through the physical and emotional hangover from the Merseyside derby to beat Palace with Charly Alcaraz netting the winner on his full debut
Everton 2 - 2 Liverpool
Bolt from the Blue
12 February, 2025
James Tarkowski cemented his place in Goodison Park's storied history and denied Liverpool an indelible stain on the Old Lady's record with a stunning, net-busting, last-gasp equaliser in front of the Gwladys Street
Everton 0 – 2 Bournemouth
No fairytale Cup run for Goodison's last dance
8 February, 2025
On another day, the matter of a few inches here or there might have turned this into an epic FA Cup battle played in front of a packed house desperate to see Everton progress. Sadly, thanks to two costly defensive mistakes, they’d given themselves too much to do
Everton 4 - 0 Leicester City
Revival under Moyes continues with romp past sorry Leicester
1 February, 2025
The defeat to Aston Villa in David Moyes's first game back may have been deflating but what has followed has been a remarkable turnaround in Everton’s fortunes. On the back of three straight wins, the Toffees can finally start to breathe a little easier.
Brighton 0 - 1 Everton
Depleted Everton cling on for another precious win
25 January, 2025
While there was little to savour from an attacking perspective, even when down to 10 men, the defence kept the door locked at the other end as David Moyes’s men followed up last Sunday’s win over Tottenham by grinding out another huge victory
Everton 3 - 2 Tottenham
Goodison re-finds her voice as Moyes inspires vital win over Spurs
19 January, 2025
An attacking fervour and confidence, dormant for so much of this miserable season under Sean Dyche, was re-awakened by David Moyes in only his second game back
Everton 0 - 1 Aston Villa
Moyes sees the scale of his task laid bare in defeat to Villa
15 January, 2025
This was always going to be a tough game for Moyes to try and repeat the highs of his first match in 2002 but, absent a magic wand, he's got a huge job on his hands to transform this mis-firing group of players into a potent, creative team
Bournemouth 1 - 0 Everton
Untenable
4 January, 2025
The evidence contained in a horrifying litany of attacking metrics is that Sean Dyche appears to have lost the ability to do what he simply has to do enough times this season: win football matches. Something has to change and quickly.
Everton 0 - 2 Nottingham Forest
Ghost from Everton’s past heaps the pressure on Dyche
29 December, 2024
It was unfortunate that perhaps one of the biggest indictment of his limitations as a manager was standing in the opposite technical area today while also being painfully ironic, given that Nuno Espírito Santo has Nottingham Forest currently on course for surprise qualification for Europe
Manchester City 1 - 1 Everton
So Close to the Perfect Away Performance at the Etihad
26 December, 2024
If Sean Dyche’s men had anything about them on the counter-attack they could well have heaped more misery on Pep and his fallen angels. As it was, they had to settle for what was still a hugely creditable 1-1 draw
Everton 0 - 0 Chelsea
Everton Maintain Defensive Resolve But Goals Remain Elusive
22 December, 2024
Sean Dyche has managed to lock down a defence that somehow shipped four at Old Trafford but with his team having scored in just one of their last seven matches, the shortage of goals means that a heavy onus remains on the defence
Arsenal 0 - 0 Everton
Pickford leads defiant rearguard action at the Emirates
14 December, 2024
Given the disparity in resources between these two clubs, the gulf in quality between the respective squads and Arsenal’s place in the table, this was a wholly unexpected but well-received point for Everton
Everton 4 – 0 Wolves
Can a 4-0 Victory Feel Underwhelming?
7 December, 2024
Perhaps the wider context of Dyche’s uninspiring management now colours every display but this one left you hugely relieved at the three points but curiously under-enthused with the overall performance
Manchester United 4 – 0 Everton
A Tale as Old as the Premier League
1 December, 2024
It feels as though one new managerial appointment had its honeymoon extended today while the other is surely in its death throes as Everton suffered familiar humiliation at Old Trafford and must now face up to a daunting run of games to close out the year
Everton 0 – 0 Brentford
Decisive breakthrough eludes Everton in another goalless draw
21 November, 2024
Everton played for more than a half with a man advantage against Brentford but couldn’t find a way past goalkeeper Mark Flekken and the Bees’ dogged defence.
Everton 1 - 1 Fulham
Last-gasp Beto goal gets dire Everton out of jail
26 October, 2024
Sean Dyche is currently failing his audition for the job of taking this famous old club into what we hope will be a brighter future at its brand new stadium next year.
Leicester City 1 - 1 Everton
Two more points washed away in the Midlands rain
21 September, 2024
Quite apart from two more points tossed away the most disappointing part of the afternoon was that Everton played some really nice stuff at times and should have put a desperately poor Leicester to the sword.
Aston Villa 3 - 2 Everton
A Creeping Sense of Inevitability
14 September, 2024
Aston Villa’s recovery from 2-0 down and eventual triumph over Everton felt almost pre-ordained when Ollie Watkins scored. The fragile Blues "went too soon" but still should have been able to salvage something from the contest