Everton vs Wolves: Starting Lineups & How to Watch | DCL out, Keane & Allan dropped, Gray returns

Halftime Thoughts - The Blues started brightly and have had a couple of decent shots on goal but Sa has stood strong. Wolves have grown into the game though and the three points are up for grabs.

45+3’ - Three uneventful minutes of time added on and Michael Oliver blows for halftime, 0-0 at Goodison Park.

45’ - Everton win another corner on the right. Gray inswinger, Holgate heads across the box, Doucoure gets his head to it and Sa gathers. Wolves break, and Myko does well to shield the ball and win a foul.

41’ - Wolves break and Podence in space crosses into the box, Jimenez tries a flying scissor kick that goes over.

39’ - Jimenez yanks down Myko by the nexk in the Everton box and then fires off a shot that Pickford saves, but the ref calls for a foul.

37’ - Dendoncker gets behind Myko and is in acres of space, tries an early cross that Kenny cuts out for Wolves’ first corner. Podence goes down in the box before the kick is taken, Pickford was making room for himself and the Wolves’ player went down like Mike Tyson got him with a haymaker. Ref Michael Oliver is in no mood for the shenanigans. Moutinho’s corner bobbles about at the edge of the box before the Blues can clear.

32’ - Gordon fouled in the right channel, promising position. Gray takes, Holgate’s attempt to cross back in blocked for a corner on the left. Cleared.Watford now 2-0 up at Saints, who have been virtually unbeatable at home, until now of course. :-|

30’ - There’s bad news elsewhere for the Blues, Leeds lead Norwich and Watford lead at Southampton.Podence can get a shot off from outside the box, Holgate blocks and Pickford gathers.

25’ - Godfrey gives Podence the good news with a tackle that he threw his whole body into. Wolves high line catches Everton offside twice in a minute.

23’ - Gordon’s pace gets him clear and his cross to the middle is grabbed by Sa with Richy just half a second behind.

21’ - It’s been fragmented play so far, but now another chance! Coleman released wide by Gordon, his centre is just behind Gray who can’t control well but can eventually shoot from a narrow angle and Sa is there again to put it out for a corner. Taken long, Godfrey heads it back into the box, and it comes back out to the defender whose volley is wild.

15’ - After three starts-and-stops Hee-Chan is down again and will be exiting the game this time. The home crowd is quite fired up now.

8’ - As expected, it’s Gray-Richy-Gordon across the front, Myko-DVDB-Doucs-Coleman across the middle, and Godfrey-Holgate-Kenny in the back. Van de Beek clatters into the back of Hee-Chan and the Wolves player stays down for a couple of minutes. Podence is warming up but Hee-Chan wants to stay on and the Goodison crowd is unimpressed by his antics.

6’ - Chance! Vitalii Mykolenko finds Richy streaking behind the backline and Jose Sa parries away a shot from a tight angle. Gray’s corner is cleared though by a Wolves defence who have conceded only once from a setpiece all season.

3’ - Liverpool fan Connor Coady takes out Richarlison on the left. Gray’s freekick is headed out for a corner. Corner just misses Richy and is cleared by the visitors who can break. Doucoure fouls Hee Chan Hwang to end that. Freekick into the Everton box cleared well by Jonjoe Kenny.

1’ - We’re underway at a very loud Goodison with Everton desperate for all three points after a minute’s applause for former manager Gordon Lee who passed away this week. Everton promptly get the ball forward and a speculative Richarlison shot goes wide.

The lineups are out, and Frank Lampard has dropped Michael Keane and Allan, Demarai Gray returns and Dominic Calvert-Lewin is out of the squad completely.

Everton are running out of wiggle room with about a third of the season left to go, and the Blues hovering uncomfortably just above the relegation zone. Frank Lampard’s side have games in hand over all the sides around them, but really need to start converting those into points or else things will only get hairier from here with the remaining schedule.

Opponents Wolves have been a very cohesive and competitive unit in Bruno Lage’s first season in charge, and despite a recent slump in form remain in contention for a European berth at the end of the season.

Competition: Premier League Matchday 26

Date and start time: Sunday, March 13th at 7:00 a.m. PT / 10:00 a.m ET / 2:00 p.m. BST

Stadium: Goodison Park, Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Capacity: 39,572

Weather: 54°F/12°C, mostly cloudy, 24% chance of precipitation, 18 mph winds

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The Toffees were overwhelmed at Wolves in the first half, but a tactical adjustment at the break from Rafa Benitez made for a much closer game as the Blues lost 2-1 with Alex Iwobi getting the goal. The last time the Wolves were at Goodison was right at the end of last season, and with just over 6,000 fans in attendance after the relaxation of COVID rules Richarlison scored the only goal in a 1-0 win.