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Wolves have lost just one of their last seven Premier League home games against Everton (W3 D3), winning this exact fixture 3-0 last season. They last won consecutive home league games against the Toffees in 1983/2004.
Everton’s 4-0 win in the reverse fixture ended a six game winless run against Wolves (D1 L5) – only in 2020-21 have they ever done the Premier League double over Wolves.
Wolves have lost 15 of their last 22 Premier League home games (W6 D1), in a run stretching back to February 2024. Their previous 15 league defeats at Molineux came over the course of 45 games between October 2021 and December 2023 (W21 D9).
After losing their first Premier League game following David Moyes’ return, Everton are now unbeaten in their last seven (W4 D3). They last had a longer run without defeat between December 2016 and February 2017 (nine games under Ronald Koeman).
Only Ipswich (65%) have scored a higher share of their Premier League goals in the first half of games this season than Everton (63% - 19/30), while the Toffees have conceded the lowest share of their goals in the opening 45 minutes this term (32% - 11/34).
Everton have played a larger share of their total passes long in the 2024-25 Premier League campaign than any other team (17%), while only Nottingham Forest (39.7%) have had a lower share of possession than the Toffees (39.9%).
Only basement club Southampton (100% - 11/11) have lost a larger proportion of the Premier League home games they have trailed in this season than Wolves (90%), who have lost nine of the 10 matches they have fallen behind in at Molineux (D1).
Despite averaging fewer shots per Premier League game this season under David Moyes (10.3) than Sean Dyche (11.4), Everton average 1.5 xG per game under Moyes compared to 1.0 under Dyche.
Wolves’ Jørgen Strand Larsen has been targeted following a run into the box more often than any other player in the Premier League this season (85) with only Dominic Solanke (237) making more runs into the box overall than the Norwegian.
Everton pair Jack Harrison (2.9) and Jesper Lindstrøm (2.1) have the highest expected goals totals of any players yet to score in the Premier League this season.
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