Manchester United vs Everton
With two weeks to go until the start of the 2025-26 EPL campaign Manchester United and Everton will meet in Georgia on Sunday to play the final match of the Premier League Summer Series.
Red Devils and Toffees fans can watch the game live at 10pm UK time, while USA based fans can head to the Mercedez-Benz Stadium in Atlanta to see these two English giants go head to head. Ruben Amorin’s Manchester United have won both their games so far and that is promising news for the club which ended up 15th last term, their lowest finish in Premier League history.
David Moyes’ Everton took 13th place last term, six points above the Red Devils, but they have yet to win in the Summer Series and, just as Amorin would like to keep the winning habit as the serious business approaches, the Toffees boss would dearly love to avoid three consecutive defeats. Moyes would also like to put one over the club which sacked him after only ten months when he succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson at the start of the 2023/24 campaign.
Perhaps the Manchester United board should have given the wily Scot more time.
United’s increasing firepower
The biggest problem Amorin had last year was the lack of a goal scorer but Manchester United’s date with the Cherries was another good day at the office for the attacking unit as both Rasmus Hojlund and Amad Diallo were on target in a 4-1 win. While Danish international Hojlund has struggled to make his mark since arriving from Atalanta in 2023, Amad was the club’s joint top scorer last term despite suffering an ankle ligament injury which kept him out for two months. The other joint top scorer, captain Bruno Fernandes, scored a brace as the Red Devils beat West Ham in their Summer Series opener but, before anyone fears the Portuguese star may have to carry the goals burden again this season, United have tooled up in the goal scoring department.
They have already shelled out a combined £130m to bring Matheus Cunha from Wolverhampton Wanderers and Bryan Mbeumo from Brentford. And the latest Premier League 2025 news reports that Manchester United have joined the race to sign Red Bull Leipzig striker Benjamin Sesko. Where that leaves Hojlund is open to discussion, but it may well be the Dane will keep his place for the clash with Everton, while Mbeumo could be in line for a first start alongside Cunha.
Amorin is hopeful his team is on the right lines, saying after the win over Bournemouth: “We are improving. I think they are playing better also because they are connecting better with each other. I think they are stronger, they are faster. You can see the intensity is completely different.”
Toffees are having a sticky summer
While Manchester United have been making good progress in the summer transfer market it has proved to be a little trickier for Moyes, while his current crop of players has laboured in their pre-season, losing both their games. Everton started their Summer Series against Bournemouth but, while the Cherries were taken apart by the Red Devils, they handed out their own lesson to Everton with a 3-0 victory. The Toffees then succumbed to West Ham United on Wednesday, losing 2-1. After Idrissa Gueye had given Everton an early lead Niclas Fullkrug and Luca Paqueta hit back for the Hammers and Moyes men had no response.
The Everton head coach has lost some experience over the summer with Abdoulaye Doucoure, Asmir Begovic, Ashley Young, Neal Maupay and Mason Holgate all leaving an already thin squad. The Toffees have signed 22-year-old striker Thierno Barry for Villarreal in a £27m deal, the club’s biggest outlay so far, while young left-back Adam Aznou, from FC Bayern, and Bournemouth reserve keeper Mark Travers are the only other arrivals so far.
Before the West Ham game Moyes admitted he wanted to have more business done by now, saying: “We’re just stalling a little bit in some departments. The truth is, we’re not getting them over the line at the moment, so that’s a fact. We’re not getting a lot of the deals done that we were hoping to.”
The biggest hole the Toffees need to fill is the one left by fans favourite Doucoure, who looks destined for Saudi Arabia, and they have been watching Juventus midfield star Douglas Luiz. The Old Lady will be happy to sell the player they bought from Aston Villa but they want to recoup the near 50m Euros they paid for the Brazilian 12 months ago.
Moyes is under pressure. The club has been flirting with relegation for a number of years and this season is moving to its new 52,000 capacity stadium at Bramley Dock; but the SBOTOP Premier League 2025 betting odds reckon the Toffees will certainly be nearer the bottom that the top and that means they are by no means comfortable…and that assumes they strengthen in the coming weeks.
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