Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior is reluctant to let 23-year-old striker Liam Delap leave this summer, amid interest from Everton. (Football Insider), external
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David Moyes spoke to Sky Sports after Everton's defeat against Manchester United: "I'm not happy with the scoreline that's for sure. You have to win games if you are going to keep moving on. We've not been doing that as much as we'd like, especially here [at home].
"We've lost narrowly to United, we beat them narrowly at Old Trafford earlier in the season. I though we did well in lots of bits, we get done on the counter and they get the one goal. We put in effort to score but lacked quality to get the goal.
"We weren't organised well enough off the ball. I have to praise them [United] for their quick attack. We knew that would be the case, they've been doing that really well. They have forward players who have to ability to run away fast and make hances. Most of the game we controlled it pretty well but in that one moment we switched off and it gave them that opportunity.
"Their goalkeeper [Senne Lammens] did a great job, made an amazing save from Michael Keane, looked as if he could take every corner kick. I thought there was a goal in there for us but we couldn't quite do it.
"They [the fans] saw us pushing United to the last minute, but we couldn't quite get it. I don't think we deserved to lose the game tonight. We are disappointed, but there are good things to take away as well."
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Jarrard Branthwaite also spoke to Sky Sports: "I think second half we dominated most of the half. We had some balls into the box and created chances created. I think it's something as a team we need to get better at - putting those chances away. One lapse of concentration on the counter attack and they've scored the winning goal. We've came in at full-time disappointed because we deserved more from the game."
On Everton's performance: "You can see the way we started the second half, we came out with a lot of momentum. There was a 15-minute spell in the first half where maybe they dominated possession but overall it's been a good game from us. As I say, a lapse of concentration and we get punished.
"You can't do it in the Premier League. We've been punished. They had one [chance] in the first half where Mbeumo went through the middle and if it's a better pass, he's probably through again. That was on a counter attack, so we were aware of it at half-time. It's disappointing to come in and not pick up any points."
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Everton have now lost more Premier League games at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in 2025-26 (6) than they did at Goodison Park last season (5), while they are now winless in six on home soil since a 3-0 win over Nottingham Forest in December (D2 L4).
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Manager David Moyes has made several changes to his side that lost to Bournemouth in the Premier League last time out, with Michael Keane and Tim Iroegbunam replacing Vitaliy Mykolenko and the suspended Jake O'Brien.
Everton XI: Pickford, Garner, Tarkowski (C), Keane, Branthwaite; Iroegbunam, Gueye; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Armstrong, Barry
Subs: King, Patterson, McNeil, Beto, Mykolenko, George, Dibling, Coleman, Rohl.
Visitors Manchester United, meanwhile, are without defender Lisandro Martinez for tonight's match on Merseyside.
The Argentina international has a minor calf injury and is therefore replaced by Leny Yoro - the one and only change made by United boss Michael Carrick.
Manchester United XI: Lammens, Dalot, Maguire, Yoro, Shaw; Casemiro, Mainoo; Amad, Fernandes (C), Mbeumo, Cunha.
Subs: Bayindir, Heaven, Malacia, Mazroui, Moorhouse, Fletcher, Ugarte, Sesko, Zirkzee.
Manchester United lost at home to Everton in November despite the Toffees going down to 10 men in the 13th minute, when Idrissa Gueye was sent off for striking his team-mate Michael Keane.
Ruben Amorim's United just could not find a way of breaking Everton down that night, but there is a very different feel about them now Michael Carrick is in charge.
They needed a stoppage-time equaliser to get a point at West Ham last time out, but they seem much more confident and have been playing well.
This will be a tough game for them but, as I've mentioned previously, Everton have picked up more points on the road this season than they have done at home.
That's another reason why I fancy United to get something here, and stop David Moyes doing the double over his former club.
Sutton's prediction: 1-1
Matt Jones
BBC Sport journalist
A resurgent Manchester United have the chance to add to Everton's poor recent home form in the final fixture of the Premier League weekend on Monday at Hill Dickinson Stadium (20:00 GMT).
Having been eliminated from the FA Cup in the third round, both sides have had nearly a fortnight to reflect on their previous results in the top flight.
Everton were undone by eight minutes of chaos at home to Bournemouth to lose 2-1, while United salvaged a point at West Ham United in stoppage time.
No Mersey paradise for Moyes
Everton are in a curious position at the moment. After numerous seasons of flirting with relegation, the table looks a lot rosier - they started the weekend in eighth position - yet there is still some frustration around recent performances at home.
The calamitous manner in which they threw away a winning position against Bournemouth left supporters angry, as a chance to consolidate a spot in the European positions was tossed away.
It's now six games without a win at Hill Dickinson Stadium in all competitions; they have lost five of their last nine Premier League home games, as many as they had in their previous 28.
That run is in stark contrast to the team's away form; they've won five, drawn four and lost one of their last nine.
Manager David Moyes will be hoping a visit from a big-name opponent can ignite the mood at the new 52,000-seat arena. The number of midweek games and Monday night matches have been a big factor in a number of low-key atmospheres at their new home.
United playing favourites
United have 19 away wins and 42 wins overall against Everton in the Premier League, more than any team has against another team in the competition's history.
The Toffees did get the better of the Red Devils previously though, as they rallied from an early Idrissa Gueye red card to win 1-0 at Old Trafford thanks to a Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall goal. A win for Everton on Monday would give them just their second Premier League double over United, the first coming in 2013-14 when Moyes was in charge of the Red Devils.
That defeat in November was arguably the nadir for former boss Ruben Amorim. Plenty has changed since, with Michael Carrick in charge and the team playing with a renewed sense of freedom.
The draw at West Ham may have ended Carrick's winning start, but the team will take heart from the manner in which they fought to the end.
Benjamin Sesko's stoppage-time goal - his second in three games - was enough to extend the team's current unbeaten streak to nine. The improved form of the £74m summer transfer will be a big relief at Old Trafford.
Overall, United have been the best team in the division in 2026, with no side able to better their haul of 15 Premier League points for the year; they have also scored more open play goals than any team since Carrick took charge.
Against a muddled opponent - their favourite opponent - they will be confident of adding to that on Merseyside.
Tyrese King
BBC Sport journalist
Everton boss David Moyes has been speaking to the media before Monday's Premier League game against Manchester United at Hill Dickinson Stadium (kick-off 20:00 GMT).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
Moyes revealed that everyone is fit apart from England international Jack Grealish, who is out for the season.
On who replaces suspended defender Jake O'Brien in the starting line-up: "Seamus [Coleman] is fit and available. We also have other people who we can choose."
On O'Brien's red card against Bournemouth: "We move on from it. He got sent off and these things happen."
On the changes at Man Utd: "I don't think that there are any player changes, that's for sure. It's roughly the same players that Ruben [Amorim] had. I think Michael [Carrick] has come in and done a brilliant job, I think he has freshened up the players and supporters as well."
On beating United earlier in the season: "Seems a long time ago but it was a huge three points because you have to try to pick up wins when you can and it didn't look likely as we went down to 10 men. We got a really good goal that night and did really well to hang on to it."
Everton manager David Moyes on interim manager Michael Carrick, who Moyes managed during his spell in charge of United: "He was a really good professional and I think I was more impressed at the work he did at Middlesbrough. I think he did an amazing job there and his team played really well. He's come into the Manchester United job in what looks like a calm manner and gone about it very well."
Looking back on his own brief tenure at Old Trafford: "It's where life takes you isn't it? I had a great time there even though it lasted a very short period, but I also have things I wished I could have done better. If I got another go at it I think I would have done things slightly different, but that's what happens when you look back on things."
On Everton: "I think the big thing that I wanted us to do at Everton was to make us competitive with the so-called big teams at the top of the league. And I think we have tried to do that. We haven't won all the games, but we have been competitive."
He also said: "We are not a team planning to fight relegation, we are a team trying to plan to challenge the teams in Europe and, to do that, we have to win some big games."
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Image source, Getty ImagesEverton fan Peter MacFarlane discusses Charly Alcaraz's lack of playing time this season, on BBC Radio Merseyside: "We haven't seen consistency in terms of him getting minutes but also in his performances when he has been given minutes.
"I think he was really unlucky with the timing of his injury as well. Idrissa Gueye was at Afcon and Iliman Ndiaye. We had a number out injured. I think at that time he would have been given a chance.
"He's a funny one. I can see he has quality. I am just not entirely sure what his best position is and how he fits David Moyes' system. I don't know whether there are slight reservations there as to where you can really trust him. He's not a winger, he's not really a 10. I can't quite place where his best position might be.
"One thing I will say is he does battle and he doesn't shy away from the ball. He does have that bravery. I'd like to see that consistency but the only way he gets that is if he plays more.
"I do see quality. He is the type of player that has a moment in him. Sometimes, especially at home trying to break teams down, you need that."
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Everton are interested in Chelsea striker Liam Delap, who is likely to leave Stamford Bridge this summer. Newcastle and Manchester United are also keen on the 23-year-old. (Caught Offside, external)
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Supporter Paul Brown from The Paddock Blues podcast admits he has been underwhelmed by Tyler Dibling so far but believes Everton have to be "patient" with him.
The young winger arrived on Merseyside in the summer from Southampton in a deal worth £40m.
Brown told BBC Radio Merseyside: "I've been very disappointed, I have to be honest. But I can see the talent is there.
"Obviously he cares, but I just don't see it enough. I don't think the desire is really there to get into the Everton first team.
"Iliman Ndiaye goes away to the Afcon and every Evertonian you speak to says: 'This is Tyler Dibling's time now to get in the team - there's nothing stopping him.'
"I thought he took it against Burnley and Nottingham Forest. I thought he had really good games, but then we played Sunderland in the FA Cup and he was just non-existent again.
"I've been very disappointed with him but he is only 20. I think we need to be patient with him."
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Briony Bragg
Fan writer
Image source, Getty ImagesIt feels like one step forward then two steps back again with Everton this season.
In one moment, there's fantastic wins on the road and talk of Europe. In the next home game, Everton manage to capitulate within eight minutes.
With only three wins since the opener in August at Hill Dickinson stadium, home form - to put it plainly - is a real issue. Worryingly, it feels like a psychological block is developing among both players and fans.
Realistically, what's happening to Everton is exactly what they're doing to other teams on the road.
Fulham should have been at least three goals up at half-time. Though deserved, taking a point in the 97th minute at Brighton involves a lot of luck.
Everton have been punished at home - brutally and quickly.
As soon as the other team score, there's a real feel of trepidation across the fans and the players.
Scoring first is becoming critical. Once the other side beds in, Everton really struggle to turn things around.
The pitch is five metres longer than Goodison Park, and David Moyes has persisted with James Tarkowski and Michael Keane at centre-half this season.
They don't have the pace Jarrad Branthwaite and Jake O'Brien do, and statistics prove Everton perform better when either is not being shoehorned in at left or right-back.
The stadium has also been made deliberately steep to create an intimidating atmosphere, but it seems to be providing the advantage to the away fans once they get their noses in front.
The place is beginning to feel fragile.
Though home form at Goodison Park was not up to much in the past few years, it doesn't feel like it ever earned that label because of the history and success of the years behind it.
Until it starts to feel really like Goodison once did - intense, hostile and unmistakably ours - progression will lack real consistency.
Everton, Leeds, Tottenham and Manchester United will continue to monitor Middlesbrough midfielder Hayden Hackney, 23, before the summer transfer window. (Teamtalk), external
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Everton plan to make another move for Wales winger Harry Wilson, 28, in the summer having had an approach rebuffed by Fulham in the January transfer window. (Football Insider), external
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On The Wayne Rooney Show this week, the former Everton striker exchanges tales with a player he looked up to early in his career, former Toffee Francis Jeffers. Rooney's brother John also has plenty to say before his Macclesfield side take on Brentford in the FA Cup.
Jeffers - assistant to John Rooney at Macclesfield - says Brentford will "100%" show more respect for The Silkmen than Crystal Palace did when they were humbled in round three.
Jeffers said: "The backroom staff at our place, the people in the office are already telling us, Brentford want to bring the team, squad of players, to look at the pitch at 12 o'clock that day. So, you know, they don't want to get there and be surprised like Palace, so, like you said, that giant killing now has sort of made Brentford wake up and go, listen, we're not going there and we're not going to allow that to happen.
"But we have to just allow our lads to enjoy it. It's an unbelievable occasion, we said that to them in the last round didn't we? Lads you know, I actually said to them, thank you very much for where you've took us here, by the way, because I've had some great days in football as a player.
"That's probably one of the best days I've ever, ever had. And that was all down to the lads and I thanked them. And I'll be saying the same to them. You know, after John gives his team talk, you know, I'll be saying to the lads, thanks. Make sure you go out and enjoy the occasion. And what will be, will be. No one's expecting us to win. But, you know, there might be a little element of surprise because we've done it before.
"I think our lads might quietly fancy having a right go at Brentford."
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On The Wayne Rooney Show this week, the former Everton striker exchanges tales with a player he looked up to early in his career, former Toffee Francis Jeffers. Rooney's brother John also has plenty to say before his Macclesfield side take on Brentford in the FA Cup.
Jeffers told the BBC Sounds podcast: "We grew up in same area, in Crocky (Croxteth). Everyone knows everyone, so I'm a bit older than the lads, obviously, but we were all aspiring young footballers at one time. I used to hear Wayne's name a lot when I was coming through at Everton. And, obviously, I went back there on loan when he broke through and he was a superstar and I spent a lot of time with him.
"I used to come across Wayne a lot in Crocky, robbing milk off doorsteps. And I'd be driving into training, and I'd have to put the window down and say, put that back!
"I used to bevy in the boozer called the Western and John and Wayne had come in with their brother Graham, with their dad after Everton games and if I'd had a good game I might have got a high 5 off his dad. That was the way it was, that was how we grew up."
Rooney told his podcast listeners: "Everyone used to come there, the Western, after the game, I remember we went in there, after we played Man City, and Schmeichel was in goal for Man City.
"I think it was my godfather, actually. I swapped shirts with Schmeichel, and he had the top on, you had one fella kicking a pretend ball taking a penalty kick and he's diving all over the place in the Schmeichel shirt. It was a mad place, it was a boss place obviously. Everyone used to go there after the games and have a good time, especially if you win.
"Franny was who I looked up to really, obviously being from Crocky. He got into Everton's first team, so watching him, he was someone who I wanted to emulate and go and to try and do the same thing.
"We obviously made our England debut together. Franny's got the best record in England's history, haven't you? One in 45 mins? One in a half a game?
"It was great, obviously, for the two of us, two lads from Crocky, from the same school - De la Salle - to make our England debut together was a special moment for the area."
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Image source, Getty ImagesRecently, Liverpool and the Netherlands captain Virgil van Dijk said former players-turned-pundits have a responsibility when discussing the performances of the current generation of footballers.
He believes they can stray into "clickbait" and have a possible impact on players' mental health.
On Thursday's episode of the More than the Score podcast, former Scotland international Pat Nevin and chief sports editor for Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf Marcel van der Kraan join John Bennett to discuss and analyse the modern world of punditry and the impact it can have on players and managers alike.
"As a player you do tend to take it to heart, especially when it feels a little personal," said Nevin.
"Generally, it isn't personal and the pundit is just having their opinion and we all kind of know where the lines are. But, the lines have been jumped over more often in recent years and I think Van Dijk is right about that.
"Because of the clickbait, it is so much easier to get more likes, views and work if you're a little bit more extreme. Ex-players aren't stupid and they know that. If you are too sensible and sit on the fence you won't get the big gigs.
"You have a dichotomy. Most ex-players would like to be balanced but they know if they are too balanced and sensible they won't be there next week.
"My criticism would always be constructive criticism which is explained. One-dimensional labeling of players should never happen. Sometimes if a big name says something enough it becomes accepted wisdom."
Van der Kraan added: "There are two different kinds of pundits; those who need to be on every week and those who are genuinely focused on what is right and what players should do.
"For Van Dijk, after so many years enough is enough.
"It all started after he came into the Netherlands team and became a big player at Liverpool. The first ex-player to really criticise him was Marco van Basten, saying he was not a leader. Van Dijk was biting his lip after every match because it became a bit of a stigma.
"Eventually it filtered to England and every time he had a bad game it became an open nerve."
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Toffee TV and ToffeeWeb contributor Patric Ridge reacts to Everton's 2-1 defeat by Bournemouth at Hill Dickinson Stadium.
He also talks about David Moyes.
Manchester United are the frontrunners among a number of clubs who will try to sign Everton's 25-year-old Senegal forward Iliman Ndiaye this summer. (Teamtalk), external
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Pundits Alan Shearer and Danny Murphy join host Kelly Somers to bring you the action and talking points from Tuesday's and Wednesday's Premier League fixtures.
