Just eight matchdays of the 2022/23 Bundesliga season are left, and the golden boot – the first in six years guaranteed to not be won by former Bayern Munich idol Robert Lewandowski – is still up for grabs.
Everton are coming into this game as underdogs but you can’t necessarily count them out. Everton have won 3 of their 4 home games under new manager Sean Dyche, all by a 1-0 scoreline, indicating a desire to sit back and make their opponents work to find a goal. Everton are averaging 38% ball possession under manager Sean Dyche. Will the interim Tottenham manager find a plan to work the ball and break down Everton’s stubborn defense?
Newcastle United have managed to win back to back games for the first time in 2023 and have only managed 3 total wins this calendar year. But, just because they aren’t necessarily winning doesn’t mean they are losing. They have only lost 1 game at home this season and only Brentford (12) have drawn more games than Newcastle (11) in the Premier League this season.Â
I don’t expect Livepool to dominate possession. I have a feeling they are going to drop back and use the pace of Salah, Nunez, and Gakpo on the counter. Manchester City do have a tendency to leave open spaces at the back and Liverpool do have the talent to exploit that space.
This week, the Bundesliga’s first Sunday duo of April features a quartet of teams for whom European qualification isn’t on the agenda. But that won’t necessarily translate into a brace of dull affairs, and first up is a battle of two Rhineland rivals desperate for a win after seeing their respective runs of form tank in the early spring.
So just who could make a difference, and how confident are the likes of Draft Kings that Bayern can ward off the threat of Dortmund? That’s all coming soon enough, but first we take a look back at how these Teutonic titans became such deadly enemies in German football’s greatest rivalry.
Although Crystal Palace is 12th in the Premier League table, they rank 7th in goals allowed this season.
Everton have only recorded 1 away win this season and have not won an away game in their previous 9 away matches.
Wolverhampton have won 3 of their last 4 at Molineux Stadium, including wins against Liverpool and Tottenham.