Everton at Newcastle
February 8, 2022 2:45 pm EDT
The Line: Newcastle +160 / Everton +180 // Total: 2.5
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Newcastle and Everton face off on Tuesday in an English Premier League showdown at St. James Park. When these two teams faced off on January 30th of 2021 it was Newcastle that came away with the 2-0 victory.
Everton currently sits in 16th place in the standings having picked up only 19 points. Everton might be the biggest disappointment of all Premier League teams so far this season. Everton has lost their last three Premier League games including that last game against Aston Villa. Everton could only manage one shot on goal, and that led to the 1-0 defeat. Everton did play an FA Cup game against Brentford, on Saturday, and they were able to win that game 4-1. Everton only had five shots on goal, but four went in the back of the net. In this game, Everton needs to try and get shots on goal. Too many times this season they have struggled to put shots on goal. Everton has scored 24 goals total while their defense has given up 35 goals total.
On the other side of this matchup is Newcastle who currently sits in 19th place in the standings having picked up 15 points. Newcastle has struggled this season but they have played better as of late. Two games ago against Watford they played to a 1-1 draw and in the last game against Leeds United they lost 1-0. In that last game against Leeds United, Jonjo Shelvey scored that goal in the 75th minute. Newcastle only had 37 percent of the possession but they were still able to secure the victory. In this game, Newcastle needs the defense to be strong to take some of the pressure off the offense.
These are two offenses that have had issues scoring the Premier League as of late and that is going to continue in this game. Look for both teams to have issues putting good scoring chances on goal and that is going to lead to this game being lower scoring. Back the under to cash.
