Sunday’s biggest and most important Premier League game sees Everton welcome Manchester United to Goodison Park. It will be interesting to see the reaction of Everton fans after the Premier League deducted 10 points from the club for breaches of financial fair play. I expect Everton's punishment to really galvanize the club and we can expect an electric atmosphere at Goodison Park.

This leaves them in 19th position in the Premier League and level on points with Sheffield United who are bottom of the table and level on four points with Burnley but ahead down to a superior goal difference. They are only two points behind Luton who now sit in safety in 17th.

In truth, you imagine that Everton should still be safe. They looked far improved this season under Sean Dyche and if they maintain those levels they’ll fight their way out of this.

So impressed have I been with Everton that I’m backing the boys in blue to get the three points on Sunday and pick up three important points. Firstly, pre-reduction Everton had only seven points less after 12 games than Manchester United. That speaks to Everton’s improvements, they have only conceded 17 goals this season, a number that only two teams in the bottom half have a better record than. Dyche's side have won as many games as in form Chelsea, conceded fewer goals than Brighton and have played their way to three victories in their last five games.

It also speaks to the failures at Man Utd. After 12 games they’ve scored 13 goals, the lowest tally of any top-half Premier League team by some margin and worryingly five of the other six teams in European qualification spots have at least double the amount of goals scored. Defensively they’ve allowed 16 goals, not a terrible return but still somewhat less than the teams at the top of the table.

More worrying for United is what seems like discontent from players towards Erik ten Hag. Since arriving at Old Trafford he’s done a lot to ensure that his authority isn’t challenged, Including selling Cristiano Ronaldo and his recent fallout with Jadon Sancho, but there are continuing stories that the likes of Raphael Varane are unhappy at the club. The players don’t look like they’re fighting together as a unit, which is a big contrast to what we are going to see from Everton on Sunday.

Despite seeming to constantly be on the verge of crisis, Erik ten Hag's side have won four of their last five league games to climb to sixth in the Premier League and certainly eased some of the pressure. Man United themselves have their own off-field distractions occurring at the minute, there are still so many questions to be answered around how their new ownership model will look moving forward and who will be truly running the footballing operations.

We’ve seen Sean Dyche say that he thinks the punishment was disproportionate and we know that this feeling of being ill-treated will help Dyche galvanize the squad more and bring them together. It’s certainly got the fanbase together and that’s going to give the players a huge advantage. It’s already been confirmed that the Premier League is so concerned by the reaction from fans that they won’t be broadcasting live crowd noise from the ground on Sunday.

If the atmosphere is as hostile and fierce as they are expecting, and I believe it will be, then it’s going to give Everton a huge boost, and crucially make it a nightmare for Man Utd. We’ve seen from this Man Utd team that they’re mentally weak and I believe that they’ll crumble if Goodison Park becomes a caldron of hate and anger. Man Utd has been so poor all season and I see Everton as favourites to win here.

在周日最重要的英超比赛中，埃弗顿将在古迪逊公园球场迎来曼联。在埃弗顿因违反财政公平被英超联赛扣掉10分后，看看埃弗顿球迷的反应将会很有趣。我希望埃弗顿的惩罚能够真正激励俱乐部，我们可以期待古迪逊公园球场充满激情的气氛。

这使得他们在英超联赛中排名第19位，与排名垫底的谢菲尔德联队积分持平，与伯恩利并列4分，但由于净胜球优势领先。他们只落后卢顿两分，卢顿现在安全地排在第17位。

事实上，你想象埃弗顿仍然是安全的。在肖恩·戴奇的带领下，他们这个赛季看起来进步了很多，如果他们能保持这样的水平，他们就能走出困境。

我对埃弗顿印象深刻，所以我支持蓝军在周日拿到三分，并且拿下三分。首先，降级前的埃弗顿在12场比赛后只比曼联少了7分。这说明了埃弗顿的进步，他们本赛季只丢了17个球，这个数字在下半场只有两支球队比他们更好。戴奇的球队赢得的比赛和状态好的切尔西一样多，丢的球比布莱顿少，并且在最近的五场比赛中取得了三场胜利。

这也说明了曼联的失败。在12场比赛之后，他们进了13个球，这是英超上半区球队中进球最少的，而且令人担忧的是，在欧洲资格赛的其他6支球队中，有5支球队的进球数至少是他们的两倍。在防守端，他们丢了16个球，虽然成绩还不错，但还是比积分榜前列的球队少。

更让曼联担心的是球员们对黑格的不满。自从来到老特拉福德以来，他做了很多事情来确保自己的权威不受挑战，包括出售c罗和他最近与桑乔的关系，但不断有像拉斐尔·瓦拉内这样的人在俱乐部不开心的故事。球员们看起来不像一个整体在一起战斗，这与我们将在周日从埃弗顿看到的情况形成了很大的对比。

尽管看起来一直处于危机的边缘，埃里克-滕-黑格的球队在最近的五场联赛中赢了四场，在英超排名上升到第六位，当然也减轻了一些压力。曼联自己也有自己的场外干扰，关于他们的新所有权模式将如何向前发展，以及谁将真正管理足球运营，还有很多问题需要回答。

我们已经看到肖恩·戴奇说他认为惩罚是不相称的，我们知道这种被虐待的感觉会帮助戴奇激励球队，让他们团结起来。这当然会让球迷们聚集在一起，这将给球员们带来巨大的优势。已经有消息证实，英超非常关注球迷的反应，他们不会在周日现场直播人群的噪音。

如果气氛像他们预期的那样充满敌意和激烈，我相信这将是，那么这将给埃弗顿一个巨大的推动，最重要的是使曼联成为一场噩梦。我们已经从这支曼联球队身上看到了他们精神上的软弱，我相信如果古迪逊公园球场成为仇恨和愤怒的大锅，他们会崩溃的。曼联整个赛季都很糟糕，我认为埃弗顿最有希望在这里获胜。