Everton Roundup: Unbeaten Blues Ninth Ahead of Ipswich Visit

Where Everton stand

According to the Premier League table, Everton are ninth after four rounds of the new season: one win, three draws and no defeats. That is six points from a possible twelve, five goals scored, three conceded and a plus-two goal difference, with a form line of DDDW.

They sit level on six points with Brentford, Liverpool and Ipswich Town. The standout number is at the back — only Arsenal, Manchester City and Hull City have conceded fewer than Everton's three goals against, according to the table.

The results so far

• A goalless draw away at Tottenham Hotspur
• A 2-2 draw at home to Manchester United
• A 1-1 draw away at AFC Bournemouth

The table also credits Everton with a win across the opening four games. An unbeaten start, then — but only one victory banked.

Goals shared around

Nobody has pulled clear in front of goal. The Premier League top scorer list shows five Everton players level on one goal each: A. Maitland-Niles, J. Tarkowski, K. Dewsbury-Hall, T. Barry and T. George.

That spread accounts for all five of Everton's goals — threat from across the pitch rather than reliance on a single striker, though no one has yet taken charge of the finishing.

What's next

Everton host Ipswich Town — tenth, also on six points — at Hill Dickinson Stadium on Saturday 19 September. Bookmaker odds via API Football, as of 14 September, make Everton favourites at 1.75, with the draw at 3.75 and an Ipswich win at 4.40: a bookmaker-derived probability of 54 per cent for the home side.

FanTribe's prediction points mirror that market. An Everton win is worth 35 points, the draw 75 and an Ipswich away win 88 — the largest single reward on offer for this fixture.

Then comes a trip to the MKM Stadium to face fourth-placed Hull City on Sunday 11 October, with the hosts two points better off than Everton in the early table. The bookmakers again side with Everton: 2.05 for an away win, 3.30 for the draw and 3.76 for Hull — a 46 per cent bookmaker-derived probability for the Toffees. On FanTribe, that fixture offers 41 points for an Everton win, 66 for the draw and 75 for Hull.

Everton fans on FanTribe can call both fixtures in the prediction game and track the table as it moves.

The task ahead

Unbeaten after four games, with a defence bettered by only three clubs and bookmaker favouritism in both of the next two fixtures, Everton have a platform. What the table makes plain is the flip side: three draws in four. Converting one of them into a win is the gap between mid-table and the top half — starting with Ipswich's visit.