Everton Chase Away Win at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
Everton head to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday chasing two things that rarely come together for them: momentum and an away win.
David Moyes’s side are unbeaten after four league games, with two wins and two draws putting them eighth on five points. The mood around Goodison has lifted, and last weekend’s late drama against Manchester United only fed that feeling. Ainsley Maitland-Niles stepped up in stoppage time and ripped a 25-yard strike into the net to snatch a point and underline Everton’s growing resilience.
But the road tells a very different story.
Haunted by the away-day record
Everton have not won any of their last six league games away from home. The numbers get even uglier when you zoom in on Saturday’s fixture: five straight Premier League defeats away to Tottenham. The stadium changes, the cast changes, but the pattern has stayed the same.
Moyes knows it. The players know it. An unbeaten start is one thing; breaking a psychological hold in north London is another.
That’s the backdrop as Everton walk out into a 17:30 kick-off under the lights on 12 September 2026. Tottenham Hotspur Stadium has not been kind to them. This trip will say a lot about whether this Everton side are different from the one that kept folding on their travels last season.
Selection puzzles for Moyes
Moyes’s options are shaped by fitness as much as form. James Garner is not yet considered fully ready after the injury that opened the door for Maitland-Niles to make his mark off the bench against United. That likely keeps Hayden Hackney in the XI after his own influential cameo, the midfielder having set up Tyrique George’s equaliser in that game.
Hackney is expected to line up alongside Harrison Armstrong at the base of midfield, a pairing that offers legs and passing range but will be tested by Spurs’ movement between the lines.
Maitland-Niles, the hero from distance last weekend, is set to continue at right-back. Moyes prefers his experience and athleticism there over auxiliary defender Merlin Rohl, who again looks likely to miss out from the start.
There is a notable tweak further forward. Jack Grealish, fresh from his second debut for the club, is in line to reclaim Brennan Johnson’s place in the starting XI. Grealish’s return gives Everton a different type of control and guile in the final third, something they may need if they spend long spells without the ball in north London.
Christian Norgaard remains sidelined until October, leaving him as Moyes’s only other fitness concern. The spine is largely intact; the decisions are now about balance and bravery.
How Everton could line up
Moyes is expected to stick with a 4-2-3-1 shape that has given Everton structure and a clear attacking framework.
Everton possible XI (4-2-3-1):
Pickford; Maitland-Niles, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko; Armstrong, Hackney; George, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish; Barry.
Jordan Pickford anchors a back four that has begun to look settled, with James Tarkowski and Jarrad Branthwaite forming a rugged central partnership in front of him and Vitaliy Mykolenko holding the left flank.
Ahead of Armstrong and Hackney, Tyrique George and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall are tasked with linking play and finding the pockets where Spurs can be hurt, while Grealish drifts and probes from the left. Young forward Barry leads the line, asked to stretch Tottenham’s defence and make their centre-backs turn.
Where and when to watch
For supporters in the UK, the game will be shown live on Sky Sports Main Event, with coverage building towards that 17:30 kick-off on Saturday.
Everton arrive with belief, a sharpened attacking edge, and a stubborn unbeaten record. Tottenham hold the history, the home crowd, and Everton’s number on this ground.
One of those truths has to give.
