Manchester City vs Everton: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head

After losing four consecutive home games against Everton between February 2008 and December 2010, Man City are now unbeaten in their last 13 games against the Toffees at the Etihad (W8 D5).

Everton have won just one of their last 22 Premier League games with Manchester City (D5 L16) and lost 12 of their last 13 (D1).

This is the second Premier League meeting between Man City and Everton on Boxing Day, with the Toffees winning the other meetings 2-1 in 2004.

Manchester City have won six of their last seven Premier League Boxing Day games, with the exception of a 2-1 defeat against Leicester in December 2018. Since returning to the top flight in 2002, the Citizens have won all seven Boxing Day home games with an overall score of 24-7.

Everton have not lost any of their last eight away games on Boxing Day since a 4-0 defeat at Aston Villa in 2005 (W5 D3). 0 in 2016.

Manchester City have lost nine of their last 12 games in all competitions (W1 D2), as many as in the previous 112. Meanwhile, Pep Guardiola has only suffered more defeats in 2016-17 (10) and 2019-20 (12). a single season as manager.

Everton have been involved in five of the nine 0-0 draws in the Premier League this season (56%). It is the Toffees’ most goalless draws in a single season since 2008/09 (also 5), while they last had more goalless draws in 1998/99 (8).

Since the start of November, Manchester City have collected fewer points than any other Premier League team (4), winning one, drawing one and losing six of their eight games in the series. They also scored multiple goals in seven of those eight games, as many times as they had in the previous 40 games.

Manchester City have conceded the first goal in nine different Premier League games this season – only teams currently in the bottom four have conceded this more often this season (Leicester 13, Wolves 12, Southampton 12).

Only current top four teams Liverpool (16), Arsenal (16), Chelsea (19) and Nottingham Forest (19) have conceded fewer goals in the Premier League this season than Everton (21), with Jordan Pickford conceding more than any other goalkeeper has conceded this season (7).