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Southampton's squad has been hit by a sickness bug this week, although Ryan Fraser is the only player at risk of missing the visit of Everton because of ongoing symptoms. Tyler Dibling is expected to return after being rested in the EFL Cup win against Stoke City on Tuesday but Ross Stewart, Gavin Bazunu and Will Smallbone remain out. Everton midfielder Dwight Mc Neil "has a chance" of being available, according to manager Sean Dyche, after he was forced off in the draw with Fulham because of a knee injury. Abdoulaye Doucoure will be assessed, while James Garner has been ruled out for at least a month after consulting a specialist on a back problem. Ashley Young is set to make a 400th Premier League start but Armando Broja, Youssef Chermiti and Tim Iroegbunam are still sidelined. Head-to-head Southampton have won 15 Premier League matches against Everton, second only to the 16 victories they have recorded versus Aston Villa and Newcastle United. Only seven of the 48 Premier League meetings have been won by the away team, but that includes the last two: 2-1 for the Toffees at St Mary's on 1 October 2022 and 2-1 for Saints at Goodison Park on 14 January 2023. Everton can win consecutive league games away to Southampton for the first time since 1990-91 and 1991-92 at The Dell. Southampton won seven of their last 10 Premier League home matches against Everton. Southampton Southampton have equalled their longest winless run from the beginning of a league campaign of nine matches, last set in the Premier League in 1998. Saints recorded a 2-1 home victory against Coventry City in their 10th match that season and went on to finish 17th. Their tally of one point is the joint lowest of any Premier League team after nine matches. Manchester City (1995-96), Sheffield Wednesday (1999-2000) and Sheffield United (2020-21 and 2023-24) also had a single point at this stage and went on to be relegated. Russell Martin can become only the third Premier manager to lose more than eight of his first 10 matches in charge, after Mick Mc Carthy and Jan Siewert. Southampton have failed to win a club record 22 top-flight games since a 1-0 home victory against Leicester City on 4 March 2023. This is the third longest Premier League winless streak, after 32 by Derby County (ongoing since 2007) and 26 by Sunderland (2002-2005). Saints have won one of their last 20 Premier League home fixtures, including none of the last 11. They have also equalled a club top-flight record of 21 successive matches without a clean sheet, set from 2005 to 2012. Their most recent Premier League shut-out was in a goalless draw at Manchester United on 12 March 2023. Southampton's passing accuracy of 87. 9% in the league is second only to Manchester City's 90. 8%, while only City have had more sequences of 10 or more passes. Adam Armstrong scored on his Premier League debut for Southampton in a 3-1 defeat at Everton on 14 August 2021. He has netted only three goals in his 58 top-flight appearances for Saints since. Jan Bednarek has failed to win on any of his last 22 Premier League starts. Everton Everton are unbeaten in five Premier League matches, their joint-longest run under Sean Dyche. Only Manchester City (32 fixtures) and Aston Villa (seven) are on longer active undefeated runs. The Toffees can avoid defeat in six successive league games for the first time since August to October 2022 under Frank Lampard, when the sixth fixture was a 2-1 win at Southampton. Everton are 16th in the Premier League table. Their two league wins this season have come against teams currently below them - Crystal Palace and Ipswich Town. The Merseysiders ended a 14-game winless run away from home in the 2-0 victory at Ipswich in their most recent fixture on the road. The Toffees will visit newly promoted opposition for a third consecutive away game. Dominic Calvert-Lewin is joint third alongside Tim Cahill with 56 Premier League goals for Everton, behind only Duncan Ferguson (60) and Romelu Lukaku (68). However, Calvert-Lewin has netted only one goal in 11 Premier League appearances against Southampton, including none in five games at St Mary's. Iliman Ndiaye can become the first Everton player to score in three successive Premier League away matches since Calvert-Lewin in December 2020. A league-high 18% of Everton’s Premier League passes this season have been long balls. Ashley Young has three assists in his last five Premier League appearances, as many as he had in his previous 124 matches combined. He is one of only three players to assist as many as three goals after turning 39, along with Teddy Sheringham and Ryan Giggs. Last Updated 29th October 2024 at 16: 03 Please Note: All times UK. Tables are subject to change. The BBC is not responsible for any changes that may be made. Premier League All competitions All competitions All competitions Southampton have won 13 Premier League home games against Everton – no side have they beaten more often on home soil in the competition (also 13 vs Newcastle). Though they’ve lost five of their last seven Premier League away games against Southampton, Everton won 2-1 on their last visit to St Mary’s in October 2022. They’ve not won consecutive away league games against Saints since January 1992. Southampton are winless in their last 22 Premier League matches (D5 L17). The only sides to have longer winless runs in Premier League history are Derby County (32 in 2007-08) and Sunderland (26 between 2002 and 2005). Everton have gone five Premier League games unbeaten (W2 D3), after losing the five games beforehand. The Toffees last had a longer unbeaten run between August and October 2022 under Frank Lampard (6). Southampton have picked up one point in their opening nine Premier League games this season (D1 L8). The fewest points won in the first 10 games of a Premier League season is one, by Sheffield United in both 2020-21 and 2023-24. 18% of Everton’s passes in the Premier League this season have been long passes, the highest percentage of any side. The Toffees have also played 7. 2% of their passes into the opposition box, with only Bournemouth (8. 4%) doing so with a higher percentage of their passes; by contrast, Southampton have done so with the lowest (4. 2%). Only three teams have completed more passes than Southampton (4, 139) in the Premier League this season. Saints also have the second-best pass accuracy (87. 9%) behind Man City (90. 8%), while only City have had more sequences of 10 or more passes (143). Everton have lost 10 of their last 14 Premier League matches in November (W2 D2), failing to score in eight of those matches. Southampton defender Jan Bednarek has completed 691 passes in the Premier League this season, the second-most of any player. He’s now failed to win any of his last 22 starts in the competition, the longest run by a defender since Jonny Evans between April 2017 and January 2018 (28 games). Everton’s Ashley Young has three assists in his last five Premier League appearances, as many as he had in his previous 124 matches combined. He’s one of only three players to assist as many as three goals after turning 39, along with Teddy Sheringham and Ryan Giggs. © 2024 BBC. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Read about our approach to external linking.