Both Bournemouth and Everton will be bidding to bounce back from the bruising defeats they each suffered at the weekend when the pair square off at the Vitality Stadium on Tuesday night.
The Cherries looked to be on track to claim a first league win since October away at Sunderland on Saturday only to throw away a two-goal lead and end up on the wrong end of a 3-2 defeat.
That means Andoni Iraola’s side are now without a league win in each of their last four top-flight fixtures, coming away empty-handed from three of those contests. As such, the hosts will be desperately seeking to stop the rot when Everton come to town this midweek.
After battling their way to a 1-0 win away at Manchester United last Monday night, the Blues were brought back down to earth with a bump when being thumped 4-1 by Newcastle on Saturday.
Therefore, David Moyes’ side will be keen to get that defeat out of their system by taking top honours on the south coast on Tuesday night.
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Bournemouth – who have won four of their six Premier League home games this season – will come into this clash as 23/20 favourites with bet365.
Everton are as big as 5/2 on bet365 to emerge from the Vitality Stadium victorious while a share of the spoils has been chalked up at 11/5 with the same firm.
Head to head: History favours the hosts
Bournemouth can draw confidence from their recent record in this fixture, triumphing in eight of the last 10 meetings between the pair across all competitions, including each of the three encounters last season.
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With an impressive return of six goals and three assists across his 12 Premier League appearances this season, Antoine Semenyo stands out to deliver another goal involvement on Tuesday night at 21/20 on bet365.
Having averaged 0.76 shots on target per game in this season’s Premier League, Iliman Ndiaye looks worthy of support to work the opposition goalkeeper once or more during this contest at 3/4 on BetVictor.
Predicted line-ups
Bournemouth will be without the suspended trio of David Brooks, Lewis Cook and Marcos Senesi on Tuesday night while Ben Gannon-Doak and Ryan Christie are out of contention due to injury.
Everton boss Moyes may freshen things up in the wake of Saturday’s heavy 4-1 defeat at the hands of Newcastle. However, the visitors are again expected to be without injured quartet Jarrad Branthwaite, Merlin Rohl, Nathan Patterson and Seamus Coleman while Idrissa Gueye is still on the naughty step.
Bournemouth: Petrovic; Jimenez, Diakite, Milosavljevic, Truffert; Adams, Scott; Semenyo, Kluivert, Adli; Kroupi
Everton: Pickford; O'Brien, Keane, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Garner, Alcaraz; Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish; Beto
Anything else catch the eye?
Based on what we have seen from Bournemouth of late, backing both teams to score looks like a strong value play here at 4/5 with William Hill.
There have been goals at both ends in six of the Cherries’ last eight Premier League matches.
What’s more, both nets have bulged in three of Everton’s last five top-flight fixtures away from home.
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