Everton 2-1 AFC Bournemouth: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 23 September 2017

Result

Everton 2-1 AFC Bournemouth

Premier League · Saturday 23 September 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

Everton · AFC Bournemouth · Premier League predictions

Everton 2-1 AFC Bournemouth: match report

Everton defeated AFC Bournemouth 2-1 in the Premier League on Saturday 23 September 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.

Joshua King opened the scoring in the 49th minute. Everton's goals came from Oumar Niasse (77') and Oumar Niasse (82'). AFC Bournemouth scored through Joshua King (49').

Discipline: Everton received 3 yellow cards; AFC Bournemouth received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Everton were 18th on 4 points from 5 and AFC Bournemouth 19th on 3 points from 5. Everton went on to finish that season 8th with 49 points, and AFC Bournemouth 12th with 44.

Everton lined up in a 4-3-3 and AFC Bournemouth in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Oumar Niasse of Everton (8.3), ahead of Andrew Surman (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Everton wins, 1 draw and 1 for AFC Bournemouth.

Going into the match Everton's last five read L-L-L-D-W and AFC Bournemouth's W-L-L-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Yellow card · Morgan SchneiderlinEverton
  • 49'Goal · Joshua KingAFC Bournemouth · 0-1
  • 56'Yellow card · Tom DaviesEverton
  • 77'Goal · Oumar NiasseEverton · 1-1
  • 80'Yellow card · Oumar NiasseEverton
  • 82'Goal · Oumar NiasseEverton · 2-1
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Junior StanislasAFC Bournemouth

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Everton 2, draws 1, AFC Bournemouth 1.

Team news

Everton line-up (4-3-3)

Jordan Pickford, Cuco Martina, Mason Holgate, Ashley Williams, Leighton Baines, Idrissa Gueye, Morgan Schneiderlin, Davy Klaassen, Wayne Mark Rooney, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Gylfi Sigurdsson

AFC Bournemouth line-up (4-4-1-1)

Asmir Begović, Adam Smith, Simon Francis, Nathan Aké, Charlie Daniels, Jordon Ibe, Dan Gosling, Andrew Surman, Junior Stanislas, Joshua King, Jermain Defoe