Everton have won six of their seven Premier League home games against Bournemouth, with the exception a 3-1 defeat on the final day of the 2019-20 campaign.
Bournemouth have won four of their last six Premier League games against Everton (L2), twice the amount they had in their first eight against the Toffees (W2 D2 L4).
Everton are just the fourth Premier League side to lose their opening two matches in a season without scoring and shipping 7+ goals, along with Leicester in 2001-02 (9 conceded), Wigan in 2010-11 (10 conceded) and Norwich in 2021-22 (8 conceded).
Bournemouth are the only side to draw both Premier League matches this season, both ending 1-1 against Nottingham Forest and Newcastle. The last side to draw their opening three were Wolves in 2019-20, while the last to draw the first three 1-1 were West Brom in 2004-05.
Everton have lost all five of their Premier League games in August under Sean Dyche without scoring a single goal. Indeed, Dyche has a win ratio of just 12.5% in August, the worst percentage of any manager to manage more than 10 games in August.
Since the start of last season, Bournemouth have conceded more fouls in the Premier League than any other side (535), with defender Marcos Senesi the most booked player in that time (14). The Cherries made 20 fouls against Newcastle on MD2, only making more in one Premier League game (23 vs Newcastle in February this year).
Up to the night of August 30, Everton will have spent 14 days bottom of the Premier League in 2024-25, their most in a season since 2009-10 (also 14). If they are still in 20th after this game, they will be just the third side to be bottom of the table at the end of August in consecutive seasons, along with Wimbledon (1996-97/1997-98) and West Ham (2017-18/2018-19).
Bournemouth manager Andoni Iraola has only won two of his 14 league matches in August across his spells with Mirandés, Rayo Vallecano and the Cherries (D5 L7), while Bournemouth are winless in nine overall in August (D4 L5) since beating Aston Villa under Scott Parker on MD1 of the 2022-23 season.
At the age of 19 years and 242 days against Spurs, Roman Dixon was the youngest player to start in the Premier League for Everton since Jarrad Branthwaite in December 2021 (19 years, 172 days vs Chelsea). He was the second-youngest to start a Premier League game under Sean Dyche, behind Dwight McNeil (18 years, 284 days in 2018), with a 24-year-old McNeil starting alongside Dixon against Spurs.
Bournemouth winger Antoine Semenyo has been involved in more shots following a ball carry than any other player so far in the Premier League this season (8 – 5 shots, 3 chances created).
