BETMGM GOLDEN GOALS MD37: BACK EVERTON TO CAP GOODISON ERA WITH WIN
Everton say goodbye to Goodison Park on Golden Goals Matchday 37 – and the Toffees have the perfect opportunity to sign off with three points as they take on bottom-side Southampton.
Newcastle travel to Arsenal looking to leapfrog their hosts into second place, while fellow Champions League-chasers Nottingham Forest face West Ham at the London Stadium.
Elsewhere there’s a west London derby with Brentford up against Fulham, two already relegated sides battle as Leicester play Ipswich and champions Liverpool have a Monday night trip to the south coast to go head to head with Brighton.
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To help you make your selections we’ve run the numbers on all six Matchday 37 games. Here’s how we see it unfolding…
Everton 3-0 Southampton
Sorry, Derby County fans, but Southampton’s unlikely draw with Manchester City means your 2007/08 side remains the Premier League’s worst.
That point saw the Saints move on to a heady 12, though they remain marooned at the foot of the table and are guaranteed to finish there.
Everton, meanwhile, are 13th after a David Moyes revival. This will be the final league game at Goodison Park and the Toffees will be desperate to sign off with a win.
They couldn’t ask for a better opponent. Though one of only two wins for Southampton this season came against Everton, a repeat of that is a long shot at 15/2.
Having avoided Premier League infamy, the visitors have quite literally nothing to play for.
Everton’s win at Fulham on Matchday 36 was impressive and they’ll be targeting back-to-back wins for the first time since February.
Beto has two in two and is pushing for double figures in the league. There’s every chance he achieves that in this game and indeed is an interesting 17/1 to score a brace in an Everton win to-nil.
Southampton’s clean sheet against City was just their third this season – they’ve shipped 82 goals in total. Expect one final roar at Goodison as the Everton faithful bid the hallowed ground a fond farewell.
Leicester 2-2 Ipswich
Leicester and Ipswich's campaign of misery is almost over and they meet here in what is, essentially, a dead rubber.
Despite their woes, the Foxes are actually two unbeaten.
Their win over Southampton at the King Power on Matchday 36 saw them finally score a home goal after nine consecutive blanks – and they got the added benefit of hindering local rivals Nottingham Forest’s Champions League attempt into the bargain.
It brought a smidgen of cheer to a dreadful campaign and they might even add a little more by going three unbeaten here, with Ipswich winless in six and having one victory in 17 Premier League games.
The reverse fixture was a 1-1 draw and this has similar written all over it.
With less to play for defences will likely be more relaxed – and they haven't been tight this season in the first place given they have conceded a combined 155 goals between them.
Of particular note is Jamie Vardy making his 500th appearance for Leicester as well as chasing his 200th goal for the club.
On his final appearance in front of the home fans, the veteran striker is 16/1 to score with the match ending in a draw containing over 2.5 goals.
An entertaining draw in a season to forget.
West Ham 1-2 Nottingham Forest
West Ham’s campaign is fizzling out – if it ever really ignited to begin with.
That's especially true at the London Stadium where the Hammers have won just one of their last seven and conceded 32 goals, a total surpassed only by the relegated sides.
Nottingham Forest, by contrast, have proved themselves dangerous travellers. They sit behind only Arsenal and Liverpool for away points this season and have scored in 10 of their last 11 league games on the road, a run that’s included trips to Villa Park, Old Trafford and St James’ Park.
Nuno Espirito Santo’s side also dismantled the Irons 3–0 in the reverse fixture. Yet dig into the data and things aren’t as lopsided as the table suggests.
They create and concede chances at similar rates. The difference, ultimately, lies in the execution.
Forest have turned 53.3 xG into 56 goals; West Ham, from 48.7 xG, have scored only 42. At the back Forest have conceded 44 from 51.0 xG against and the east Londoners 59 from 62.3.
The Hammers might land a blow but that extra sharpness in both boxes – combined with Chris Wood's 10 goal involvements in 13 Premier League appearances against the Hammers – makes Forest to win, both teams to score and Wood to score or assist at 27/5 a smart Bet Builder play.
Brentford 2-0 Fulham
As recently as early April, European football was nothing but a pipe dream for the Bees.
Marooned in midtable on 41 points after a home defeat to Newcastle, they were six points behind eighth-placed Brighton.
But an unbeaten run of six – including four straight wins – has flipped that completely. The Bees have leapfrogged Bournemouth, Brighton and now Fulham to lead the charge for a potential European spot should Crystal Palace fall short in the FA Cup.
Brentford have kept three clean sheets in that run with goalkeeper Mark Flekken key to their resurgence.
He saved all four of Ipswich's shots on target on Matchday 36 and continues to lead the Premier League for total shots faced (192). Remarkably, only 26.6% of those have ended in goals, the best rate in the league.
Fulham, by contrast, have let 28 points slip from winning positions – a division-worst and the most in the club’s Premier League history – and haven’t beaten Brentford away in the league since a November 2016 Championship clash.
With the Cottagers' season petering out and 10 or more corners landing in four of Brentford's last five, the Bees to win to nil and over 9.5 match corners at 19/5 looks a smart play on Matchday 37.
Arsenal 2-2 Newcastle
It’s been a while since Arsenal could truly call the Emirates a fortress.
They’ve lost just twice at home this season but dropped points in six further games, conceded in 12 and kept one league clean sheet there in 2025.
Newcastle, meanwhile, have built one of the league’s most reliable away records. They’ve taken more points on the road than Manchester City, Chelsea and Aston Villa, losing one of their last five away from St James’ Park.
Arsenal won this fixture 4–1 last season but the Magpies replied with a 2-0 victory here in January's EFL Cup semi-final – part of a two-legged triumph for Eddie Howe's men – and the gap between them looks narrower now than it did earlier in the campaign.
Bukayo Saka has four goals in his last five league appearances against the Magpies, including in that 4-1 win.
He will be key again but Newcastle have heavy artillery of their own: Alexander Isak has two in three against the Gunners this term and they have scored in 15 of 18 away games.
With more wins, goals and clean sheets, Howe’s charges look well placed to match fire with fire and our 19/1 Bet Builder of Saka to score or assist, Isak to score or assist and the match to end in a draw captures the value.
Arsenal may edge many of the underlying numbers but Newcastle regularly punch above theirs. Especially with second place and Champions League football in play, a barnstormer of a score draw is on the cards.
Brighton 2-1 Liverpool
One foot on the beach, the other on the pitch.
Fitting, as Liverpool's next stop on their Premier League champions tour is on the south coast against a Brighton side more than capable of raining on their parade.
The Seagulls have clocked five wins, three draws and just two losses against the big six this season – one of those a tight defeat to Liverpool in November.
Arne Slot’s men are on airplane mode, having lost 3-1 to Chelsea then let a two-goal lead slip against Arsenal.
Brighton, conversely, are unbeaten in their last two top-flight home games against Liverpool and need points in the tussle for eighth and potential European qualification. They can cause an upset. Danny Welbeck could be Brighton’s danger man once again with two goals and two assists in his last five against Liverpool and a career-high 10 league goals this term overall.
Yet this is also Mohamed Salah's 300th Premier League appearance. With 17 goal contributions in 17 games against the Seagulls and a fourth Premier League Golden Boot in sight, there is no better stage for the Egyptian King to shine.
Both forwards lead the line in our match Bet Builder of Brighton to win, both teams to score, Welbeck to score and Salah to score or assist at 23/2.
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