Everton 2-5 Watford: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 23 October 2021

Result

Everton 2-5 Watford

Premier League · Saturday 23 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Everton 2-5 Watford: match report

Everton lost to Watford 2-5 in the Premier League on Saturday 23 October 2021. The half-time score was 1-1.

Tom Davies opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Everton's goals came from Tom Davies (3') and Richarlison (63'). Watford scored through Joshua King (13'), Juraj Kucka (78'), Joshua King (80'), Joshua King (86') and Emmanuel Dennis (90+1').

Discipline: Everton received 4 yellow cards; Watford received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Everton were 8th on 14 points from 8 and Watford 16th on 7 points from 8. Everton went on to finish that season 16th with 39 points, and Watford 19th with 23.

Everton lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Watford in a 4-1-4-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Emmanuel Dennis of Watford (9.1), ahead of Joshua King (8.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Everton wins, 2 draws and 3 for Watford.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 3'Goal · Tom DaviesEverton · 1-0
  • 13'Goal · Joshua KingWatford · 1-1
  • 17'Yellow card · Lucas DigneEverton
  • 44'Yellow card · William Troost-EkongWatford
  • 54'Yellow card · AllanEverton
  • 63'Goal · RicharlisonEverton · 2-1
  • 70'Yellow card · Emmanuel DennisWatford
  • 72'Yellow card · RicharlisonEverton
  • 78'Goal · Juraj KuckaWatford · 2-2
  • 80'Goal · Joshua KingWatford · 2-3
  • 81'Yellow card · Joshua KingWatford
  • 86'Goal · Joshua KingWatford · 2-4
  • 90+1'Goal · Emmanuel DennisWatford · 2-5
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Salomón RondónEverton

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Everton 5, draws 2, Watford 3.

Team news

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Everton line-up (4-4-1-1)

Jordan Pickford, Séamus Coleman, Michael Keane, Ben Godfrey, Lucas Digne, Andros Townsend, Tom Davies, Allan, Anthony Gordon, Demarai Gray, Salomón Rondón

Watford line-up (4-1-4-1)

Ben Foster, Jeremy Ngakia, William Troost-Ekong, Craig Cathcart, Adam Masina, Moussa Sissoko, Ismaïla Sarr, Ozan Tufan, Juraj Kucka, Cucho Hernández, Joshua King