Everton team news: Hinshelwood back in contention

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Albion will be looking to build on their opening game of the season against Fulham, which finished in a 1-1 draw.

Charlie Hanson

2025-08-21T11:00+01:00

Jack Hinshelwood is available to face Everton. 📷 by James Boardman.

Albion will take on Everton in the first Premier League game at the Toffees' new Hill Dickinson Stadium on Sunday, kick-off 2pm.

Team news

The midfielder missed the opening game against Fulham. 📷 by James Boardman.

Fabian Hurzeler provided an update on Jack Hinshelwood, Adam Webster, Solly March and Carlos Baleba in his press conference on Thursday.

"Jack trained fully so far [this week], so he will be an option. There's still only two players out with Adam and Solly. It's very positive for Carlos. Of course, we needed to take care of him after he was out for almost three, four weeks. And we couldn't let him play for 90 minutes.

"But now it's about getting him back to his highest level regarding physicality, and then I'm sure he will be an option for us at the weekend."

Their last line-up

Your Toffees to face Leeds! 🔵👊#LEEEVE pic.twitter.com/eopoUHTkZR
— Everton (@Everton) August 18, 2025

The Toffees suffered a frustrating defeat in their opening Premier League game of the new season, with a controversial penalty seeing Leeds take all three points in a 1-0 victory.

Match facts

Everton won 1-0 at Brighton in January, last winning consecutive Premier League games against the Seagulls in January/October 2020.

Having lost each of their first four Premier League away games against Everton, Brighton are now unbeaten in their last four visits (W3 D1).

This will be the first ever competitive game at Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium. Just one of the 10 clubs to have played at two different permanent home grounds in the Premier League have lost their first such game at their new home (W5 D4), with Southampton going down 2-0 to Chelsea at St Mary’s in August 2001.

All the action from Goodison Park, as Brighton played their first game of the 2024/25 season.

Brighton and Hove Albion’s first away Premier League game in 2024-25 saw them win 3-0 against Everton, while the Seagulls ended the campaign with two away wins on the bounce. They last won three away games in a row in January 2023, the third of which was away at Everton.

Everton won their first home Premier League game in five consecutive seasons between 2017-18 and 2021-22 but they’ve lost their last three without scoring (0-1 v Chelsea in 2022-23, 0-1 v Fulham in 2023-24, 0-3 v Brighton in 2024-25).

Everton lost 1-0 to Leeds on MD1 and have lost their first two games in each of the last three seasons. No team in English top-flight history has lost their first two matches in four seasons in a row (without a relegation between).

Though Brighton had two of the five players who completed the most passes on MD1 of this season’s Premier League (Dunk 86, van Hecke 77) they actually had a lower possession figure (49.8%) than Fulham in their 1-1 draw, with Dunk and van Hecke making up 43.5% of Brighton’s passes in the game.

Everton faced 21 shots in their opening Premier League match this season against Leeds, the most they’ve faced since David Moyes returned to the club in January. It was the most he’d faced in a league game since his final match for West Ham against Manchester City in May 2024 (28).

Brighton’s Danny Welbeck has been involved in 10 Premier League goals in 18 appearances against Everton (5 goals, 5 assists) and is one of only nine players with both 5+ goals and 5+ assists against the Toffees. He’s also scored in his last two away starts against Everton.

Jan Paul van Hecke made 29 line-breaking passes on MD1 of this season’s Premier League, 12 more than any other player. He was also the only player to reach double figures for line-breaking passes under high-intensity pressure from an opponent (20).

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