Tottenham Hotspur v Everton

Team news

Dominic Solanke and Rodrigo Bentancur have been ruled out of Saturday's game.

Solanke sustained an ankle injury in the season opener against Leicester, while Bentancur must follow concussion protocol after he was stretchered off during that match following a collision.

Pedro Porro, Yves Bissouma and Wilson Odobert are all available.

Everton will assess James Tarkowski, who is nursing a hamstring strain.

Ashley Young will serve a one-match ban for his red card against Brighton, while James Garner, Seamus Coleman, Youssef Chermiti, Nathan Patterson and Jarrad Branthwaite are all out injured.

Match facts

Head-to-head

• Everton’s solitary victory in the 23 most recent Premier League meetings was by 1-0 away on the opening weekend of the delayed 2020-21 season, with Dominic Calvert-Lewin scoring the goal (D11, L11).

• That’s the latest of just four wins for Everton in their past 32 league visits to Spurs (D8, L20).

• Tottenham beat Everton 2-1 at home last December and then drew 2-2 at Goodison Park in February. Richarlison scored three of the four goals for Spurs against his previous club.

Tottenham Hotspur

• Spurs could start the season without a win in their opening two league games for the first time since 2015-16.

• Tottenham have won their opening Premier League home fixture in five of the last six seasons. The exception was a 1-0 defeat by Everton in 2020.

• Their four wins in the past 12 Premier League matches were all against the teams that finished in the bottom four of the table last season.

• Spurs could go 16 successive home league fixtures without a clean sheet for the first time since an 18-game streak from April 1955 to February 1956.

Everton

• Everton can lose their opening two Premier League matches for the third consecutive season.

• They haven’t won a top-flight game in the month of August in any of the last three seasons, drawing three times and losing six – including the last four without scoring.

• They are winless in 11 away league fixtures since a 2-0 triumph at Burnley in December (D4, L7).

• The Toffees are the only non-promoted side without a Premier League away victory in 2024.

• Everton lost every away league game last season against the teams that finished in the top six, conceding 18 goals.

• Sean Dyche is winless in all eight away matches as a manager versus Spurs in all competitions, only avoiding defeat in Burnley's 1-1 league draw at Wembley Stadium in August 2017.