Declan Walsh

Sun 13 March 2022 11:32, UK

Stan Collymore predicts Wolves to beat Everton at Goodison Park when the two sides meet in the Premier League on Sunday.

Frank Lampard’s men go into the game in rotten form, losing seven of their last eight league fixtures.

Wolves, on the other hand, bounced back from three straight defeats by hammering Watford 4-0 last time out.

And Midlander Collymore feels as though it’ll be the Wanderers who come out on top this weekend and pile more misery on the Toffees.

“Wolves will nick it and put more pressure on Lampard,” said Collymore in the Sunday People [print edition, 13 March, page 55].

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Everton’s only saving grace at the moment is that there are three worse teams than them in the Premier League; four, if you include Leeds, who are one place above the Blues but also in awful form.

Everyone keeps saying that the Toffees are too big to get relegated and they have the quality players to be able to drag them out of trouble.

But where have those quality players been as of late? What about this squad suggests it’s anything other than relegation fodder?

Norwich and Watford look pretty hopeless and they could be relegated by the end of April with the way they are playing.

Burnley are the ones who worry us because they’ve been in this situation many times and Sean Dyche is a manager who can dig a side out of trouble.

Leeds are also doing very badly but Everton’s form is embarrassing and another defeat this weekend could pile yet more pressure on Lampard.

Games in hand could save us, no team in the league has played fewer games than the Toffees this term so far (25). Burnley have played 27 and Leeds have played 28.

In other Everton news, The Athletic’s Greg O’Keeffe has shared an update on how relegation would affect the new stadium plans.

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