{"id":166783,"date":"2024-03-29T16:36:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/29\/toffees-to-boost-their-survival-bid\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T16:36:41","slug":"toffees-to-boost-their-survival-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/29\/toffees-to-boost-their-survival-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Toffees to boost their survival bid \u2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Everton start the Easter Weekend just two places and four points outside of the Premier League relegation zone and face a Saturday trip to Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Dyche will see this as a real opportunity to increase the gap to the bottom three, with the Cherries not having much to play for.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Team news<\/h2>\n<p>Andoni Iraola has confirmed that Bournemouth will be without both Marcos Senesi and Luis Sinisterra due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Although Lloyd Kelly has been training, he is not yet fit enough to feature despite making good progress from a hip injury.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Adams, Max Aarons and Dominic Solanke are expected to feature, despite recent fitness problems.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors will have Idrissa Gueye in their squad, after playing 70 minutes for Senegal during the international break, with Dyche confirming he is fit.<\/p>\n<p>Arnaud Danjuma has returned to training this week, but the Everton boss has indicated that Saturday will come too soon for his return.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis Dobbin is facing a spell on the sidelines, after damaging his ankle in what has been described as a \u2018freak\u2019 training ground clash.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The stats<\/h2>\n<p>After a previous poor run against the Cherries, Everton have won the last two meetings between these two sides \u2013 both at Goodison Park \u2013 without conceding a goal.<\/p>\n<p>Everton have drawn three of their last five away games in all competitions, with the two defeats coming at Manchester City and Manchester United.<\/p>\n<p>Bournemouth have won just one of their last five Premier League home games \u2013 that was the 4-3 comeback victory over Luton.<\/p>\n<p>Iraola\u2019s men have conceded the first goal in each of their last three Premier League matches at the Vitality Stadium.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/e04a13a0-175e-4254-8efd-ebd29e2cbc91.jpg\" alt=\"Andoni Iraola has seen Bournemouth pick up seven points from their last three Premier League games.\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andoni Iraola has seen Bournemouth pick up seven points from their last three Premier League games.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prediction<\/h2>\n<p>It has been three weeks since Everton were last in action and that break, including some warm-weather training in Portugal, will have helped Dyche work on tactical plans and team bonding.<\/p>\n<p>Their performances have been good overall and it has just been a lack of goals that has cost them dearly over recent months.<\/p>\n<p>With Bournemouth clear of the relegation zone and too far adrift to qualify for Europe, they are one of the few Premier League sides with nothing significant to play for.<\/p>\n<p>The Cherries recent struggles at home will further bolster Everton\u2019s hopes of claiming a positive result on the south coast.<\/p>\n<p>Although they did fight back from 3-0 down at half-time to beat Luton in that dramatic clash, much of that comeback was down to the visitors\u2019 sapped energy levels in the second half.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">LiveScore: Live Sport Updates<\/h3>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 1 --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everton start the Easter Weekend just two places and four points outside of the Premier League relegation zone and face a Saturday trip to Bournemouth. 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Team news Andoni Iraola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":166784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Toffees to boost their survival bid \u2013 - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/03\/29\/toffees-to-boost-their-survival-bid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Toffees to boost their survival bid \u2013 - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Everton start the Easter Weekend just two places and four points outside of the Premier League relegation zone and face a Saturday trip to Bournemouth. 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