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Tottenham Hotspur vs Everton: Match Preview and Predicted Lineup

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Everton travel to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend for the final fixture of the 2025-26 Premier League season.Last weekend’s deflating defeat to Sunderland at Hill Dickinson Stadium leaves the Toffees...

Tottenham Hotspur vs Everton: Match Preview and Predicted Lineup Everton travel to Tottenham Hotspur this weekend for the final fixture of the 2025-26 Premier League season. Last weekend’s deflating defeat to Sunderland at Hill Dickinson Stadium leaves the Toffees with little to play for, with a top-half finish the best possible outcome after European dreams evaporated in recent weeks. David Moyes’s men have gone six without a win in the Premier League, a rotten run-in that has undone much of the good work achieved until the spring.

Late goals have been a problem, with Everton conceding seven times beyond the 75-minute mark across the last five league games. It’s perhaps an indication of fatigue, having used only 22 players in the Premier League this season. That is Everton’s joint-lowest number of players ever used in a Premier League campaign, alongside 1993/94 and 2004/05.

For Spurs, Sunday’s game is of huge significance. Lose, and the North Londoners will be relegated for the first time since 1977, should West Ham beat Leeds at the London Stadium. A draw should be enough for survival, given a vastly superior goal difference.

Everton have won one of the last 10 meetings with Spurs across all competitions, and have not beaten this weekend’s opponents in the capital since September 2020. Team News Everton team news Idrissa Gana Gueye was again absent for the defeat to Sunderland and Moyes has said the Senegal midfielder is 50-50 to return at Spurs, in what could be a farewell appearance. Speaking in Friday's pre-match press conference, Moyes said: "[Gana] has been back on the grass.