Welcome again to another Injury Time live English Premier League coverage! This time we’re off to Goodison Park as the title challengers in United look to leap-frog Chelsea at the summit of the table. Everton however, are coming of a morale boosting victories over Chelsea in their last Premier League match, and Sporting Lisbon in the Europa League.

The LIVE! commentary of the game is located at the bottom of this page.

Of course, as always, you can email any of your thoughts to gordon@injurytime.net , we’d love to hear from you!

Sports News - February 16, 2010

Can Everton pull out another rabbit?

Last time they met?

Manchester United 3 – 0 Everton

Everton

Form (least recent to most recent):

All-Competitions; WWLWW

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Everton look to have fully recovered from their terrible start to the season as they push for more success in qualifying for Europe. The come-from-behind victory against table-topping Chelsea last time out will provide enormous confidence as will a midweek victory in Europe. However, they are missing the inspirational Tim Cahill.

Players to Watch:

Louis Saha – The Frenchman has had the Midas touch of late, well except for that penalty. He hasn’t dropped his head after failures and is looking more and more like the target striker he was at his days with the opposition. The re-born striker will be looking for revenge against his old club.

Steven Pienaar – Pienaar returns from the suspension he got after seeing red at Liverpool, and one thinks the South African will be fired up after missing the win over Chelsea. Fresh after pledging his commitment to the club he loves, the diminutive midfielder will be looking for a big game.

Stat of the Day:

Everton have kept only three clean sheet’s in 2010, however two of those three have come at home.

Manchester United

Form (least recent to most recent):

All-Competitions; WWWDW

EPL; WWWWD

Manchester United are in great form coming into this game, and will fancy themselves being top of the crop by the end of it. Wayne Rooney is in unstoppable form, and their midweek win over AC Milan in Italy will give them confidence. However, will fatigue become a factor?

Players to Watch:

Wayne Rooney – Obvious decision. The talisman has netted an amazing 10 goals in as many games this year and you’d have to be a brave man to bet against him in any match. If he exploit an at times weak Everton back line, he could notch another one to the tally.

Antonio Valencia / Nani -  Both of these lads are fighting for CR7′s old right wing spot, and it seems each week, one outplays the other. A few weeks ago Nani was magnificent against Arsenal, but his crossing was poor at Milan midweek, all for Valencia to replace him after sixty-four minutes and deliver a peach of a delivery for Rooney’s first goal of the game. It’ll be interesting to see who get’s the start.

Stat of the Day:

United are undefeated in the League in 2010 and their last defeat came at the hands of Fulham on December 19th.

My Pick?

I think it’ll be a close game, both in reasonable form and Everton are at home, but I think United will have just a little too much class. I think Everton might take the lead, but United to fight back and take it, but I’d love to be proven wrong! Manchester United 2-1 Everton.

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Gordon D'Mello

Gordon is a Journalism student at the University of Notre Dame, Sydney who has a huge passion in the field of sports writing and sport itself. Here he is a writer, senior editor and is also a co-founder of Injury Time.