New Everton boss Sean Dyche will be looking to keep things tight at the back at his new team and building from there, just like he did with Burnley. However, conceding goals has not been too much of an issue for the Toffees this season, only letting in 14 goals in their 10 home games so far. Up front however, they have managed just nine goals in front of their home crowd. This has landed in nine of their ten home games and in five of their past six in the league in total.

Arsenal may be top of the league, but they have been built upon a very solid base at the back, conceding just 16 to this point in the season. In their ten away games, they have seen just six goals go into the back of their own net and this selection has landed in all but two of their away games and in four of their last five in all competitions. At least one side has managed a clean sheet in four of those games too.

In recent years, Arsenal struggled against Burnley when Sean Dyche was in charge and their last five games have seen just four goals, including two 0-0s. This Arsenal side is much better than in previous years but this selection landed in the last six that Burnley played against the Gunners and Sean Dyche will be looking to frustrate them further here.

Bukayo Saka has been incredible so far this season, managing seven goals and seven assists in the league to this point. He has had at least one shot in each of his last 11 games and 11 shots on target in that time. This selection has landed in eight of those matches.

In the past two seasons, he has faced Everton four times, managing ten shots with two on target despite being in a much weaker Arsenal side. Against Sean Dyche’s Burnley teams, he had 13 shots in four matches across the last two seasons.

Alex Iwobi is facing off against his old club and the side where he came through the academy. This season he has been much more impressive in a deeper, central midfield role. He averages 0.91 shots per 90 in the league this season, recording 10 shots in his last nine and at least one in seven of those matches.

In the past three seasons, he has had five shots in 245 minutes against his former side which is an average of 1.84 shots per 90. Whilst he has been taken off or not started some of those matches, his spot in the team is more nailed here and he has played 90 minutes in all but one Premier League start this season.

Both these teams average at least four cards at home and away in the league respectively. Everton average 4.20 cards per game at Goodison Park and have seen four or more cards in 70% of their games here. They have received two bookings in seven of their ten matches here and drawn at least two in six of those matches.

Sean Dyche will be looking to frustrate Arsenal as much as he can here. He has made sure that players wear shin pads to training, suggesting that he wants his team to be more physical – even in training – and he will be trying to implement that here.

Arsenal average 4.30 cards per game away from the Emirates and have received at least two in eight of their ten matches on the road this season. They have drawn two in seven of those too. This selection has landed in seven of the ten league meetings between the two sides across the past five seasons. Two of the games where this selection did not land were 5-1 and I expect this to be a much closer game here.

The referee is David Coote. Across his career, he has averaged 3.82 cards per game. Since the return of football following the World Cup, he has taken charge of seven matches, showing four or more cards in five of them. The two games where four or more bookings were not shown were comprehensive victories for Manchester City and Arsenal over Wolves and Oxford respectively.