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- ... we've now had 7 Sunday visits to Arsenal - and our record is W0 D1 L6!

- and we've now won on 0 of our last 21 visits to the Gunners - W0 D4 L17
- only at Chelsea (W0 D10 L24) do we have a longer current run without a win

- our full Premier League record at their place is W1 D5 L17
- not surprisingly, then, on a points per game basis they are our least favourite away PL opponents

- they are also our worst opponents in all competitions, at all venues!
- (counting only teams we've met more than 4 times)

- this most recent defeat was our 100th against Arsenal, home and away, in all meetings
- they are the first club we've reached that milestone against!

- Tomas Rosicky got one of the Arsenal goals
- he's the first opposition player to score 3 goals against us in the Premier League as a substitute
- apart from Sunday, he also did the trick in December 2007 and January 2010

- 2 other players have scored against us 3 times from the bench in all competitions
- Olivier Giroud and, inevitably, Ian Rush

- oh, and the match was Everton's 6th on the run live on UK TV
- that's never happened before!

- a shame it was BT Sport covering the game
- they've shown us live 12 times and we've won just one of those matches! W1 D4 L7

- overall, we've now won just 1 of our last 11 Premier League games - W1 D4 L6
- in the last 15 Prem games our record is W2 D5 L8 - that's just 11 points from a possible 45

- and we've now suffered 8 away defeats so far this season - that's the most since 9 in 2005/06

- Steven Naismith made his 100th Everton appearance in all competitions at the Emirates
- 58 starts and 42 as a sub - congratulations to him

- those 42 sub appearances put Naisy 10th on our All-Time Sub Appearances chart
- he's 1 ahead of Jack Rodwell and 1 behind Sandy Brown & Alan Harper

- 39 of those sub appearances have been in the League
- that puts him level with James Vaughan in 7th place on our All-Time League Sub Appearances list

- Phil Jagielka, meanwhile, played his 231st game for us in the League
- he's 52nd on our All-Time League Appearances chart, 1 behind Derek Temple & Joe Royle

- in the Premier League, Seamus Coleman has now made 121 appearances for us
- he's now level with Marouane Fellaini in 22nd place on our All-Time Prem Appearances chart
- elsewhere on that list, Steven Naismith is now level with Jack Rodwell on 85 in joint 49th position
- Ross Barkley is in joint 60th place with Anders Limpar on 66
- and Romelu Lukaku is level with Gary Speed & Niclas Alexandersson on 58 in 69th place

- in terms of starts Tim Howard is now up to 318 for us in League games
- he's in 15th place alone on our All-Time League Starts list, 1 ahead of Colin Harvey
- Phil Jagielka is now level with 1910s/20s keeper Tommy Fern on 219 in 57th place on that chart

- John Stones failed to score again, of course!
- that's now 34 Everton games in the Prem without a goal
- he's level with Li Tie in 8th place on our Most Prem Games Without Scoring chart

- and so on to Stoke away on March 4th

- we've never played the Potters on that date before
- but we've drawn all of our last 4 March 4th outings and have a W1 D5 L0 record in the last 6
- the last one was 0-0 in 2009 at Blackburn
- our last March 4th win was at Spurs in the FA Cup in 1986

- in all, we've played 7 away League games on March 4th in the past and won just one of them - W1 D4 L2
- and the one win was back in 1899!

- our recent record against Stoke is pretty poor
- we've failed to win our last 2 meetings (W0 D1 L1)
- the last one was the 1-0 home defeat on Boxing Day

- at their place, we've drawn on each of our last 3 visits
- the last one was the 1-1 draw on New Year's Day 2014, courtesy of Leighton Baines's injury time penalty
- and we've won 0 of our last 5 trips to the Britannia - W0 D4 L1
- our last win there was the 3-2 victory in September 2008

- if we manage a goal this time round, it will take us to 200 against Stoke in all of our League encounters

- 1 goal conceded, meanwhile, would be 6,300 against us in our League history
- whereas 3 goals conceded would be 1,100 against us in our Premier League history

- if he plays at Stoke, it will be Romelu Lukaku's 40th consecutive Premier League appearance for us
- that'll be the 18th time an Everton player has achieved such a run

- a goal for Rom would be his 16th for us this season, equalling last season's total
- if he manages 2 it would be the most anyone has scored for us in a season since the Yak's 21 in 2007/08

- if he plays and fails to score, John Stones will join Alex Cleland on 35 EFC Prem games without a goal
- they'll be joint 7th on our Most Prem Games Without Scoring chart

- strangely, Everton have never had a player sent off against Stoke!
- they've had 2 early baths against us, though - one in 1982 and one in 1892!

- and Mark Clattenburg will be the referee this time round
- we've won the last 2 games that he's been in charge of - but they were both at Goodison Park
- in away games with him in the middle we've won 0 of the last 5 - W0 D1 L4

- and the game is on a Wednesday
- we've won 0 of our last 4 Wednesday outings - W0 D2 L2

- and it's a 7.45pm kick-off
- we've won 0 of our last 6 games starting at that time - W0 D3 L3

- something has to change!

- oh, and there's new section on the website!
- click to discover information about, and a list of, all the Everton Number 9's in our history
- enjoy!