Two sides that have started the season in less than ideal fashion meet at Goodison Park this weekend as Everton face Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Everton currently sit rock bottom of the Premier League having lost both of their opening games of the season.
The Toffees began with a 0-1 loss at home to Fulham on the opening weekend before falling to a thumping and deflating 4-0 hammering away at Aston Villa last Sunday.
Manager Sean Dyche will have felt aggrieved at his side's inability to finish a game in which all the chances fell their way at home against Fulham on the opening weekend but he can have no complaints at how Sunday's game at Villa played out given the performance.
The Toffees were battered from pillar to post in Birmingham in what was a hugely concerning showing by Dyche's men.
Many fancied Everton to kick on this season under the guidance of a seemingly safe pair of hands in Dyche but it feels as though old habits are dying hard in the blue half of Merseyside with Everton looking every bit a relegation candidate in the early portion of the campaign.
Worse yet is that star striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin was yet again withdrawn from the field with injury after suffering a facial injury and given his perpetual injury absence has been a big cause of Everton's struggles over the course of the past few seasons it does not bode well for the remainder of this campaign.
Everton will now have to put their hand in their pocket sometime in the next week or so to reinforce a squad badly in need of goalscoring talent if they are to give themselves the best chance of survival.
In the even shorter term Dyche sorely needs both a performance and a result from his side in this one and a home fixture against a side expected to contest relegation is as close to a six pointer as you'll see - even this early in the campaign.
Wolverhampton Wanderers currently sit 19th in the Premier league with two losses from their first two games of the season.
Wolves kicked their campaign off with a fairly defiant 1-0 loss at Old Trafford before falling to a deflating 1-4 battering at home to Brighton & Hove Albion last weekend.
Wolves showed a tonne of promise in their loss to Manchester United on the opening game week in a performance that had many people reassessing their pre-season projections for the Black Country side, but much of that newly found optimism was quickly dissipated in their resounding defeat to Brighton at the weekend.
Brighton played Wolves off the park at Molineux in what was a game that really exposed how difficult this season is going to be for Gary O'Neil's men.
It was largely expected that Wolves would contest relegation coming into this season following the resignation of manager Julen Lopetegui in light of the club informing him that no money will be available for transfers and the loss at Brighton has made it look as though that's exactly how Wolves' season is going to pan out.
Things could change very quickly with a win at Goodison Park given it's a game against a fellow expected relegation contender but equally a defeat here would likely get the alarm bells ringing.
It should be a very interesting encounter from a neutral standpoint but it will be more than tense for everybody involved on both sides.
For our Everton vs. Wolves prediction, we're going for a 1-0 win for the home side.
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