HEAD-TO-HEAD RECORD
This will be our seventh meeting in all competitions with the Toffees, since our reformation in 2018. Five of the previous six games between the sides have gone United’s way, including all three of the league fixtures – the Reds ran out 2-0 winners at Walton Hall Park in January, courtesy of goals from Ella Toone and Christen Press. Willie Kirk’s side, however, beat us 1-0 in this season’s League Cup, which ensured United were knocked out of the competition at the group stage.
FORM GUIDE
Although damaging defeats to Reading and Brighton will ultimately prevent United from overhauling the Gunners in third, our form against the sides below us in the table this season has generally been good. West Ham, Tottenham and Bristol City have all been beaten in recent weeks and the six points dropped in those reverses to the Royals and the Seagulls are the only joy anyone other than the top three have had against Stoney’s side this term.
Everton, who sit fifth but are 12 points adrift of United, have had a mixed campaign. The Toffees flew out of the blocks, taking maximum points from their first four games, but a poor winter for the beaten FA Cup finalists saw them win just one of their next nine, amid a spate of weather and COVID-related postponements. Things have picked up a little from February onwards, with recent wins over Brighton and Aston Villa helping to secure the club’s highest finish since 2013.
