Everton and Manchester City are playing on the English Premier League Barclays schedule on Saturday and the match is the last of the day and starts at 12:30 pm ET on the NBC Sports Live Extra with a live stream and it will be coming from Goodison Park and gives the Toffees a chance to get closer to Arsenal in the EPL standings as the season gets closer to ending in 2014.
Man City has been playing very well as of late and they are in the mix for the league title heading into the final week and they come into the match after a win away against Crystal Palace and they still have three matches to play this season. The team plays against Everton and then against Aston Villa before playing West Ham and both of those matches will be at home at Etihad Stadium after the last two were away and that could be huge for the club, as they have played very clean at home and that could be the difference over Chelsea and Liverpool after those two teams faced off in an intense match last week.
Man City won over West Brom before that and the team last lost against Liverpool and that was at Anfield after a draw against Sunderland and the team has Everton today before playing against Aston Villa and West Ham on the final games of the schedule. David Silva is expected to be back for the match against Everton and that would be a big boost for Man City, as he has been out for the last three games and that came after an ankle injury got too serious to deal with. Silva had toughed it out for some time and was forced to sit for the ankle injury and now Manuel Pellegrini can get his attack back in order along with some others including Matija Nastasic, while Jesus Navas will be out.
Silva is back in the lineup and that will be important for the team and his fitness is back to normal and now the team holds its own cards, as they can win the league since they have a match in hand and they have been high scoring as well. If they get points with wins on all their remaining matches, Man City likely will end up on top like they did a few years ago and they can get towards that on Saturday.
Everton is in the position to play spoiler for Man City and that would be a great help to Liverpool and Everton manager Roberto Martinez said that his team would not fall over for the club on Saturday. The team comes in with two matches left after losing to Southampton last weekend and before that they won against Man United and that ended the run for David Moyes. The team now has Man City at home before travelling to playing against Hull City and that will be the last game of the season.
Liverpool is leading Chelsea by two points, while Man City is back three and the Blues are actually in the toughest position, as Man City has the match in hand and the goals. Amazingly, before the game with Chelsea, Liverpool had an over 80 percent chance at winning the title and then after the loss, that fell to just under 50 percent, while Chelsea has five percent and Man City has 47 percent based on all they have done this season.
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