Supercomputer shares new Everton relegation prediction as Nottingham Forest, Bournemouth win points
Everton are now one of the three favourites to be relegated from the Premier League this season, according to a supercomputer.
FiveThirtyEight’s algorithm has crunched the numbers after Saturday’s Premier League action and it now believes that there’s a 42 per cent chance the Blues will go down this term.
On Saturday, Bournemouth came from behind to beat Fulham, Nottingham Forest drew with Wolves, Leeds United lost to Arsenal and Leicester City let slip of a lead to lose 2-1 at Crystal Palace.
Going down?
It’s weird that someone’s algorithm thinks Everton will be relegated.
Stats and numbers only ever tell so much of the story as we doubt there’s a Sean Dyche metric being included in FiveThirtyEight’s thinking.
Southampton do look doomed – we agree with that.
Nottingham Forest’s form has been poor but they seem to be capable of getting results at the City Ground – similar to how Everton can do that at Goodison Park.
Bournemouth picked up a massive three points against Fulham on 1 April but we still don’t see them escaping the trouble because they definitely have the weakest squad down there, as well as one of the least-experienced managers.
West Ham? They should be fine under David Moyes but their European commitments could do more harm than good.
Leeds, Leicester and Wolves are also big maybes.
None of them have a specialist like Dyche in charge.
We’ll be fine.