Manchester City v Everton | Tom Lutz

• Peruse the latest tables and stats here • All today’s latest scores can be found here • Email tom.lutz@guardian.co.uk with your thoughts 7 min: Everton are looking very peppy indeed today. Baines tries a shot from distance but it doesn’t remotely threaten Hart’s goal. City have barely left their own half. 5 min: Baines lines up a free-kick on the left of the box. Osman attempts to turn and shoot. He does both but not in sequence and the ball drifts off in the wrong direction. 3 min: Everton stroke it around their own half, waiting patiently for their 2-1 victory. I did the rugby minute-by-minute at 7am and this is a delight in contrast, you don’t need to figure out why something’s a foul: none of this going in the side of the ruck nonsense. If it’s a free-kick it’s because someone has crunched someone else in the shins. 1 min: We’re off, Manchester City kick-off. “Surely a Scotsman like Davie Moyes could take most gun-toters with a mere knife (although I’m Scottish, so I would say that),” says Ryan Dunne. “Frankly I’m slightly disappointed that my fellow Glasgweigan even feels the need to have recourse towards a metaphorical blade, when a swift headbutt and boot-to-the-baws would usually suffice (er, one would imagine).” Baws is a Scottish word for elbow in case you were wondering. 12.41pm: Jamie Redknapp “literally” watch : “David Silva literally floats around the pitch”. The hovercraft-footed cheat. 12.38pm: David Moyes is interviewed pre-match, we don’t see what he’s holding so there may well be a knife in his hands. 12.35pm: “I like those 8-1 odds,” says Gary Naylor. “It’s not that I think Everton will win – City will beat better sides than ours this season – but expectations have been set so low at Goodison and so many players are young and / or largely unknown in English football, that there’s a kind of fearlessness abroad that produces goals at either end (ignore all that stuff about playing with one or none up front: formations don’t score goals, players do). Moyes’s men may cop a few 4-0s this season, but we might turn over one or two big boys when they’re least expecting it.” So 4-0 to City it is then. 12.25pm: David Moyes is upbeat today: “[Playing rich clubs like Manchester City] is like going into a gun fight when I’ve got a knife, so I have to find a way of using that right.” Hope you’ve got a good lawyer, David. 12.20pm: Your teams for today: Manchester City: Hart, Richards, Kompany, Lescott, Clichy, Nasri, Barry, Toure Yaya, Silva, Dzeko, Aguero. Subs: Pantilimon, Zabaleta, Milner, Kolarov, Savic, Tevez, Balotelli. Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, Baines, Neville, Fellaini, Rodwell, Osman, Coleman, Cahill. Subs: Mucha, Heitinga, Bilyaletdinov, Saha, Drenthe, Stracqualursi, Vellios. Referee: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire) Preamble: Everton are 8-1 to win this match, while Manchester City can afford to swap half of their line-up from the midweek win against Birmingham City – Owen Hargreaves, in particular won’t be risked two matches in a row – and are riding high in the Premier League. And yet, Everton have a pretty good record against City over the last few seasons. Everton beat Manchester City 2-1 in both matches last season and Tim Cahill has scored in the last three fixtures he has started against Roberto Mancini’s side. That said City will win 3-0. Match pointers • Sergio Agüero’s run of eight goals in his first five Premier League games equals the record set by Micky Quinn for Coventry • Everton have won seven of their last eight Premier League games with Man City, and all four of their games at the Etihad Stadium • David Silva has created more scoring chances from open play (18) than any other top-flight player • Tim Cahill has scored in his last three games against City in Manchester • Yaya Touré scored in both Premier League meetings with Everton last season Premier League Manchester City Everton Tom Lutz guardian.co.uk

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