Everton vs Sunderland – A Statistical Breakdown

Everton were good, again. Created lots of scoring chances, attacked down the wings and won the match.

Player Stats

Idrissa Gueye

Was mediocre in the first half, however, produced a good quality performance in the second. Had two shots, both of which were off target. Had a pass success rate of 95% and beat players by dribbling off them 3 times. Gueye attempted 8 tackles and 63% of them were successful. He assisted the opener by a cross. A great player who seems to have proven the doubters wrong, he has been great right from the first match.

Signing of the Summer?

Romelu Lukaku

Lukaku ended a 11 match goal drought by bagging in a hatrick. However, he could have easily netted 5.

The First Goal (60 minutes)

Deulofeu tried passing a ball to Mirallas, it hit a defender and the rebound came to Gueye who crossed and found Lukaku.

The Second Goal (68 minutes)

Bolasie dribbles past two Sunderland defenders, crosses, and his ball meets Lukaku who nets to make it 2-0.

The Third Goal (71 minutes)

Mirallas’ great through ball finds Lukaku who scores.

Lukaku had a total of 9 shots, 6 of them were on target, 1 came off the woodwork, 3 of them were off target while 2 of them were blocked. Jermain Defoe of Sunderland and Lukaku both had an 80% success rate at passing.

Team Stats

Everton had a total of 20 shots while 9 of them were on target. Meanwhile Sunderland had 11 with 2 on target. The Toffees had a pass percentage rate of 89%. Everton made 29 tackles and enjoyed 67% of the ball. Sunderland were woeful and failed to mark Romelu Lukaku, one positive to take from the game, however, was that they intercepted 16 times almost 3 times more than Everton (5)

Attempts

20 of Everton’s shots were from open play while the other two were from set piece. 70% of the shots were from the middle, while 15% from left and the rest from right.

Source: WhoScored.com

Passing

The Blues had an impressive total of 595 passes, almost the double of Sunderland’s figures (297).