{"id":663919,"date":"2026-01-31T04:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=663919"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:22:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:22:45","slug":"everton-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-brighton-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/01\/31\/everton-team-news-predicted-lineup-vs-brighton-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton Team News and Predicted Lineup vs Brighton For January 31"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton are hitting the road, travelling to the American Express Stadium to face <\/span>Fabian H\u00fcrzeler\u2019s Brighton side<\/span>. The Toffees currently sit 10th in the table, joint on points with Brentford, Newcastle and Sunderland who sit 8th, 9th and 11th respectively. With all the teams in the league having now played the same amount of games, there is everything to play for, and both teams will be keen to walk away with all three points. Here is the latest Everton team news and our predicted lineup.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everton Team News and Predicted Lineup vs Brighton As Toffees Look Strong\u00a0<\/b><\/h2>\n

How Everton Have Lined Up Recently<\/b><\/h3>\n

Everton managed to secure a 1-1 draw against Leeds United this past Monday, as the Toffees faced ex-striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who has stood out in the Leeds lineup this season. It wasn\u2019t the three points that Everton were so desperately hoping for, as the points continue to slip out of their grasp anytime they have the chance to climb the league table.<\/span><\/p>\n

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First choice goalkeeper Jordan Pickford started in goal with Jake O\u2019Brien, James Tarkowski, Nathan Patterson and Vitaliy Mykolenko playing at the back. Back from their recent AFCON Cup win Idrissa Gueye and Iliman Ndiaye featured in the midfield along with Dwight McNeil, James Garner and Harrison Armstrong. Thierno Barry was the striker up front.<\/span><\/p>\n

Everton Recent Form And Tactics<\/b><\/h3>\n

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The Toffees will look to keep their impressive away form on track, with <\/span>10 away game<\/span><\/a> wins since 25 January 2025, they will want to make it 11 this weekend. However, the points will be the most important thing they will want to walk away with, as 12th-place Brighton will be sure to put up a good fight with the hopes of joining the four teams on 33 points.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Everton have welcomed back a lot of crucial players that they were missing near the end of last year and the start of this year through AFCON, injury and suspension, and with no additions to the squad from the transfer window, this is the positive news they need to ensure they keep up their form and continue to seal important wins. However, David Moyes <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> players could depart before the end of the transfer window, but there is no confirmation yet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Injuries and Suspensions<\/b><\/p>\n

Moyes confirmed<\/span><\/a> that it is likely Grealish will miss the rest of the season after his foot injury, saying: <\/span>“We believe Jack Grealish is probably going to need surgery. That’s still not absolutely confirmed, but it probably rules him out for the rest of the season.” It remains unclear what the attacker’s future will be after his loan spell ends.<\/span><\/p>\n

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As for the rest of the squad, <\/span>the manager said<\/span><\/a>: \u201c<\/span>[We’ve got] Michael Keane back, we’ve got Jarrad Branthwaite, who played 45 minutes, Kiernan [Dewsbury-Hall] back. We’re still waiting a little bit on Charly Alcaraz and Tim Iroegbunam but they’re all certainly getting much closer.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Everton Predicted Lineup vs Aston Villa\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

GK: <\/b>Jordan Pickford<\/span><\/p>\n

Defence: <\/b>J<\/span>ake O\u2019Brien – James Tarkowski – Nathan Patterson- Vitaliy Mykolenko<\/span><\/p>\n

Midfield: <\/b>Idrissa Gueye- Dwight McNeil<\/span> – Iliman Ndiaye – James Garner – Harrison Armstrong\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Forwards: <\/b>Thierno Barry<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everton are hitting the road, travelling to the American Express Stadium to face Fabian H\u00fcrzeler\u2019s Brighton side. The Toffees currently sit 10th in the table, joint on points with Brentford, Newcastle and Sunderland who sit 8th, 9th and 11th respectively. With all the teams in the league having now played the same amount of games, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5727,"featured_media":663938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":true,"sfio_embed_code":"<\/smartframe-embed>","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,13,1831],"tags":[31726],"class_list":["post-663919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-everton","category-starting-line-up","tag-everton-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663939,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663919\/revisions\/663939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}