Everton get a rare Premier League charity run

Getting Southampton for the final at Goodison Park on 18 May 2025 is a rare example of Premier League charity towards Everton.

Before superstitious Evertonians chastise this correspondent for tempting fate with a bold statement akin to insisting that Sean Dyche’s side are guaranteed to win while smashing a mirror as they walk under a staircase, those who know their history would should receive encouragement from the past head of the two parties. head record

As the beleaguered Blues feared the worst when their side were hammered for six by Chelsea in April at Stamford Bridge – a ground where they had not picked up three points for almost 30 years – or they went to Arsenal on the final day (Everton might have held on for a share of the spoils if Gabriel Jesus’ handball had been interpreted as Lois Openda’s which saw Romelu Lukaku have a second goal disallowed for Belgium against Slovakia at the Euros) , should accept that their home record against the Saints is so high. good.

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Everton were never going to finish at Goodison Park against Liverpool, but they could have received a daunting test against another of the so-called ‘Big Six’. With Southampton only gaining promotion back to the Premier League via the play-offs after finishing fourth in the Championship last time out, they are the weakest team the Blues could have faced, but previous meetings are the ones that offer more positivity.

If you examine Everton’s Premier League home record against every opponent they have ever played, they have amassed 54 points against Southampton, which is more than any other club, with West Ham United on 53rd and Newcastle United with 52. Then there are five. -points gap to Chelsea (47) and a further five points to Fulham (42) before coming to Arsenal (39, but from 32 games compared to just 17 against the Cottagers), hotly pursued by Manchester City and Aston Villa on the 38th and then Liverpool on the 37th.

No one has lost more Premier League games at Goodison Park than Southampton with 16 defeats. That’s the same total as West Ham United, but the Hammers needed 28 games to Saints’ 24 to reach that total, and they’ve also won seven times, compared to just two for to the Hampshire team.

Everton also enjoy the best goal difference in the Premier League at Goodison Park against Southampton, with a plus-26 figure, which is the same as their tally against both West Ham United and Sunderland. This is partly because the Blues enjoyed their joint-biggest Premier League win against the Saints when they beat them 7-1 on 16 November 1996, a record they later equaled by beating the Roy Keane’s Black Cats with the same score on 24 November 2007. .