Manchester City vs Everton Matchday Stats Preview

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

Everton have won just one of their last 22 Premier League meetings with Manchester City (D5 L16), losing 12 of the last 13 (D1).

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

Manchester City have won six of their last seven Premier League Boxing Day games, with the exception being a 2-1 loss at Leicester in December 2018. Since their return to the top-flight in 2002, the Citizens have won all seven of their Boxing Day home games by an aggregate score of 24-7.

Everton haven’t lost any of their last eight Boxing Day away games (W5 D3) since a 4-0 loss at Aston Villa in 2005. Everton also won the last time they faced the reigning champions on this day, beating Leicester City 2-0 in 2016.

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

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

Since the start of November, Manchester City have earned fewer points than any other Premier League side (4), winning one, drawing one and losing six of their eight games in that run. They’ve also shipped multiple goals in seven of those eight games, as many times as they had in their previous 40.

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

Only the current top four sides of Liverpool (16), Arsenal (16), Chelsea (19) and Nottingham Forest (19) have conceded fewer Premier League goals this season than Everton (21), with Jordan Pickford registering more clean sheets than any other keeper this season (7).