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Everton will be looking to end their three-game winless run when they take on Fulham at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday.

David Moyes’s men are yet to secure all three points in a Premier League fixture since their last-gasp 2-1 comeback win over Crystal Palace at their new waterfront venue nearly a month ago. Since then, they’ve lost consecutive games against Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City, home and away, before a 1-1 stalemate with Sunderland at the Stadium of Light on Monday.

Iliman Ndiaye was once again the star of the show as the Senegalese capped off a wonderful opening half hour for the Toffees with a brilliant solo goal. However, joy was short-lived as Everton were made to rue their missed chances with the Black Cats taking charge of the remainder of the contest.

Granit Xhaka equalised shortly after the restart, and the second half became an exercise in avoiding a Sunderland winner. By the end, the visitors were able to avoid three defeats on the bounce after coming away from the north-east coast with a point.

Everton are 14th in the table with 12 points in 10 games. They are four points away from the top half of the table and are separated from the relegation zone by five points. 

Their opponents on Saturday, Fulham, are just below the Blues in the league standings with one point less from the same number of games. Marco Silva’s men ended a four-game winless run last weekend with a 3-0 win over Wolves.

The Cottagers are yet to win a game away from home this season, and if the Blues are to make their push towards the top half of the table, picking three points here is non-negotiable.

Everton vs Fulham - Team News and Predicted Starting XI

Everton Team News

The big question surrounding team selection ahead of Saturday’s game surrounds Iliman Ndiaye. The Senegalese was subbed off injured in the second half and according to Moyes, Ndiaye felt “a bit of cramp and one or two other bits and pieces.”

While the severity of an injury has been underplayed by the team camp, it remains to be seen whether Ndiaye is fit for selection for this clash.

Jarrad Branthwaite and Nathan Patterson are expected to be out for a considerable period.

Meanwhile, Beto could displace Thierno Barry from the starting lineup. Barry has not had the best of weeks after a ludicrous miss against Sunderland extended the search for his maiden goal with the club.

Everton’s predicted starting XI: Jordan Pickford, Jake O’Brien, James Tarkowski, Michael Keane, Vitalii Mykolenko, James Garner, Idrissa Gueye, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Iliman Ndiaye, Beto, Jack Grealish.

Everton vs Fulham - Form Guide

Everton: D-W-L-L-D

Fulham: L-L-L-L-W

When is Everton vs Fulham?

Everton will take on Fulham on 8 November, Saturday afternoon. Kick-off is scheduled at 3:00 pm GMT.

Where to Watch Everton vs Fulham?

The Premier League game between Everton vs Fulham won’t be available for telecast in the UK due to the embargo on Saturday afternoon kickoffs. Highlights will be available on the Sky Sports app and Sky Sports YouTube channel later.

 

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Alan J Thompson
1 Posted 07/11/2025 at 09:33:30
Friday, not Saturday?
Mike Powell
5 Posted 07/11/2025 at 12:32:42
I hope that's not the team.

That team and tactics isn't working, it needs to change, but I won't hold my breath. Moyes hasn't got a Plan B, his only plan is to swap Beto for Barry.

Prove us wrong, Moyes.

Andrew Merrick
6 Posted 07/11/2025 at 12:37:56
I'd like to have a typo style result this week with a sackful of goles in the onion big, Everto 6 Fullstop 0.

Bring it on!

Mark Murphy
7 Posted 07/11/2025 at 13:53:45
So this dyslexic walks into a bra…
Stu Gre
8 Posted 07/11/2025 at 14:16:41
Mike #5.

"B"eto for "B"arry...

Moyes thinks that is Plan B.

Jack Convery
9 Posted 07/11/2025 at 15:23:41
Did anyone see the press conference?

Was the Moyesiah, letting the Scots know, he may be interested in the Scotland Team job after Everton?

Mike Gaynes
10 Posted 07/11/2025 at 16:09:57
Best news possible. Ndiaye fit to play.
Derek Powell
11 Posted 07/11/2025 at 17:05:56
Expect the same team, same tactics, same formation, even the same subs and the same bullshit he the Moysiah comes out with.

We should have left the past at Goodison instead of dragging it with us!

Mal van Schaick
12 Posted 07/11/2025 at 18:20:14
I would like to see Grealish on the right, put Ndaiye into the middle and try Dibling on the left wing, just to try something different. Don't bother with McNeil.

Beto up front with Ndaiye pushed up behind him 4-4-1-1.

Craig Scott
13 Posted 07/11/2025 at 18:37:42
I don't think a lone striker up front is working for us. I wonder whether Barry might benefit from having Ndaiye up front feeding him in maybe a 4-4-2 formation? Dibling would then get a chance on the right, and I'd have Rohl in the middle with Dewsbury-Hall, Garner at right-back and O'Brien alongside Tarkowski at the back.

I know everyone is loving Keane at the moment, but his lack of pace concerns me and I think it's the reason why we resort to playing too deep. Also, with Ndiaye and Gana away at the Afcon later on, we need to see how Alcaraz and Rohl could replace them in that formation.

Mike Hayes
14 Posted 07/11/2025 at 21:04:01
Few good alternatives there but we all know he'll stick to the same script -- like Dyche did and got the bullet.

Anything but a win tomorrow will have Moyes supporters turning on him. Fingers crossed for 3 points at home.

Andy Meighan
15 Posted 07/11/2025 at 21:25:51
I watched Moyes's presser earlier... Can anyone please tell me what the fuck this fixation this man has got with mentioning Baines and Lescott in every presser, and how they had to wait to get their chance?

Yes, Moyes, we all know... but that was another age. Claiming Dibling isn't ready yet is a complete insult; we paid £40M for the lad! Yes, not a huge sum for the top sides -- but it is for us.

He's not ready because you won't give him a run of games, that's all. We are all getting sick of your inane tactics and predictable line-ups and I'm sure, reading between the lines, it'll be more of the same tomorrow.

Only one way this relationship is going -- and it's certainly not in your favour.

Robert Tressell
16 Posted 07/11/2025 at 21:42:01
Just watched a round-up of a few European games this week. In just three games, it was notable that there were some absolute sitters missed by Woltemade, Savinho and Sarr and a missed penalty from Mateta. As it happened, their clubs all created a hatful of chances and won comfortably anyway.

What is most ludicrous about the Barry miss to me is that it was the only chance we managed to create for him. Missing is fairly routine even for brilliant strikers.

I hope Barry plays, I hope we commit more players forward and I hope we create some decent chances to get his confidence up.

Tony Abrahams
17 Posted 07/11/2025 at 22:10:42
It's the only real chance that I can remember being created for him in an Everton shirt, Robert.

Mike Gaynes said he would miss a few easy chances, and score a few goals that might surprise us. So, now he's got the first part of Mike's prediction out of the way, then hopefully he moves on to the second part, and gives us something to celebrate tomorrow!!

Neil Lawson
18 Posted 07/11/2025 at 22:40:47
Editor. Will you please stop the ridiculous description of Barry's miss as "ludicrous".

Bad, shocking, dreadful, unacceptable. But ludicrous? All strikers miss sitters. Cut Barry some slack.

If Beto does start, then Moyes should hang his head. He should either pick Barry or neither. Or just kick Barry even harder in the goolies.

Paul Kossoff
19 Posted 07/11/2025 at 23:49:17
Apparently Barry's fav rapper is Ludacris...

So which ever way you spell it, Barry's miss was ludacris, or was it ludicrous?

Paul Kossoff
20 Posted 07/11/2025 at 23:54:51
Another ludicrous situation we are in is possibly going in for Man United player Mainoo?

Now just hand me that bargepole please, uh, uh, uh, no, sorry, the bargepole is just not long enough for me to touch him with -- and hopefully the, recruitment (lol) team use the same length of pole I used.

Paul Griffiths
21 Posted 08/11/2025 at 03:41:31
Another two for Braiden Graham and, in my opinion, he has earned a place on the senior bench and full training with the squad if he already isn't.

He turned 18 today. He signed a 3-year deal a year ago.

The argument for Braiden is not just about what he might offer but just how pitiful the worst pair of strikers in the Premier League are.

The crowd would be right behind him. Something might happen; something might not. But surely it's worth thinking about, even for only breaking up this pitiful Beto for Barry / Barry for Beto comedy.

It won't happen tomorrow, obviously, but we have a couple of weeks to think and watch on -- I hate this - 'on the grass'. Start Barry against Man Utd, Mr Moyes (I'd rather see Ndiaye up there, however) and bring Briaden not Beto on for Barry (who has not scored) with a good half-hour to go.

Steve Brown
22 Posted 08/11/2025 at 04:47:16
Ludicrous meaning: “stupid or unreasonable and deserving to be laughed.”

To be fair, the miss was so bad that I burst out laughing.

Steve Brown
23 Posted 08/11/2025 at 04:52:12
Mainoo can control the ball, pass the ball, run with the ball and shoot on target.

He has no place on our squad. Anyway, Moyes would sign him in January and play him in May.

Jonathan Tasker
24 Posted 08/11/2025 at 07:18:26
Moyes is rapidly turning into Dyche Mk II.

I've seen more than enough of his ludicrous team selection. Get rid of him.

Jerome Shields
25 Posted 08/11/2025 at 08:11:27
This is Moyes's second chance to get a win. He doesn't seem to be going to change and his blaming of players could go either way.

Everton need a real workman and effort type of performance they are capable of in spite of Moyes's public statements.

Bobby Mallon
26 Posted 08/11/2025 at 08:14:23
Steve brown we have a lad at preston who can do that better
Frank Sheppard
27 Posted 08/11/2025 at 08:45:58
I expect at least one change from the Sunderland (near) collapse… I hope it's not Beto for Barry.

Beto proves time and time again he is nowhere near good enough. Barry is worth a run in the side, and he cost us a fair amount of £££s.

Martin Farrington
28 Posted 08/11/2025 at 09:39:46
Moyes will play the same XI that started against Sunderland.
If he had any bottle, he would swap Rohl for Gueye, Dibling left, Grealish right, Ndiaye for Dewsbury-Hall.

But there is more chance of a Barry hat-trick vs the rns. His miss was not 'ludicrous'. Incredulous, perhaps or misfortune certainly.

"Smith must score".

Steve Brown
29 Posted 08/11/2025 at 10:37:13
Bobby @ 26,

I agree... but Moyes would not pick Armstrong this season if he was still part of the squad.

Neil Lawson
30 Posted 08/11/2025 at 10:59:02
Steve @29. And therein may well be the problem going forward with Moyes.

He will never trust a young player. Rooney was a myth that never ever happened (other young players are available).

Andrew Clare
31 Posted 08/11/2025 at 11:09:35
Substitutes are an important factor in any match. I just hope Moyes uses more of them and earlier in the game -- say on 60 minutes -- if the game plan isn't working.

All of these new signings need a run in the team in order to gain confidence. Already, the season is looking bleak, it could be a lot worse if we lose today.

Barry needs time.

Merle Urquart
32 Posted 08/11/2025 at 11:18:05
Another spirit crushing team selection on the cards likely, changes will be made only if enforced. Does anyone really expect anything different?

I think we rely on luck more than tactics. Our performances are generally consistently mediocre and we win, lose or draw. I just cannot call this afternoon!

Derek Taylor
33 Posted 08/11/2025 at 11:30:49
It's easy to blame Moyes but we mustn't overlook the pathetic signings of the five-person recruitment team he surprisingly agreed to work with when negotiating his contract.

This 'baby' of ex-Leeds CEO Angus Kinnear has caused only mess and muddle and landed us with some right no-marks at ridiculous expense!

ps: I do recognise that the hopeless Beto was already here before Moyes's appointment.

Trevor Powell
34 Posted 08/11/2025 at 11:49:30
Well, I would really love it if Thierno Barry comes good with a goal, even if it's off his arse, deflected or what. Look at the all the press going wild with the symbolism of Granit Xhaka's goal -- a whopping big deflection.

In my teens, I think in spring 1968, great goal scorer Jimmy Husband just could not get a break in front of the goal for seemingly ages. Fans wanted him dropped and on the Easter weekend, unknowingly he bummed one in. The smiles on his and teammates' faces, thier total belief in him and he was away!

Come on, Thierno, get in behind... the first thing he needs nows is a goal and some backing!

Dave Abrahams
35 Posted 08/11/2025 at 12:12:11
Derek (33) So does that mean Moyes had nothing to do with any of the signings including the one that many are calling a huge success?
Derek Taylor
36 Posted 08/11/2025 at 12:16:01
No, Dave, I imagine he approved them -- probably in desperation!

But it's so easy to blame him for every game lost. It's what we do!

Mark Taylor
37 Posted 08/11/2025 at 12:24:18
Barry has been dire, not just fluffing the few opportunities he has had, but looking nothing like a Premier League striker, more like League Two level. Except at times in the first half of the last game. Sure it wasn't much, but there was a possible spark of something going on, maybe a proper player somewhere inside there.

Since I have never seen even that spark from Beto, including when he actually scored a few goals, it seems to me the least bad option (and it is exactly that) is to persevere with Barry. The truly perverse option would be to rotate yet gain. That 'strategy' definitely isn't working.

The rest of the team picks itself from a Moyes perspective. I expect no surprises, no imagination.

Robert Tressell
38 Posted 08/11/2025 at 12:36:32
This is why, going forwards, we need to modernise and use a coach (like all other successful sides) who is first and foremost a coach.

A recruitment and player development team need to bring in and bring on the talent.

It worked with Klopp at the RS. It's worked for Arteta at Arsenal. It works with Iraola and Glasner.

We are not Sheffield Wednesday and this isn't 1985. You can't achieve success the same ways as you could back in the day.

Jimmy Carr
39 Posted 08/11/2025 at 13:24:12
Neil (18) we've already had a conversation about the use of the word 'ludicrous' to describe that miss on another thread. I agree with you. The writer of this article is either:

A) so unoriginal in his deployment of the English language that he's reached for the word again; or

B) showing his support for the writer of the original report by repeating the use of the word.

Whatever, that game has gone. Let's hope Barry can score a ludicrous deflection off his backside in today's game and keep everyone happy.

Colin Glassar
40 Posted 08/11/2025 at 13:40:21
Moyes will probably start the same side that began against Sunderland. My starting XI would be

Pickford

O'Brien
Tarkowski
Keane
Mykolenko

Röhl
Garner

Ndiaye
Alcaraz
Grealish

Dibling -- as a false 9 can he do any worse than B&B?


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