Why Everton are under extra pressure to beat Crystal Palace this weekend

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Everton’s game with Crystal Palace this weekend carries more significance than first meets the eye.

The Toffees have won their previous two Premier League matches.

A 3-0 win over Fulham was followed up the weekend after by a big 2-1 win away at Leicester City, and Marco Silva’s side are now sitting in 11th in the table.

Everton take on Palace at Goodison Park on Sunday and if they beat the Eagles, it’ll mean a third straight league win – something that hasn’t happened at the club for 21 months, as pointed out by the Liverpool Echo.

The last time Everton won three on the spin in the league was January 2017.

Back then, they beat Southampton 3-0 and the Manchester City 4-0.

The opponents they faced and beat after those two sides? Crystal Palace.

Everton have to win to rediscover ruthless streak

Everton have to beat Palace in order to banish this worrying statistic.

It’s been a testing time for the football club over the past couple of years and some wrong appointments have been made.

The disarray has harmed the club, but now Silva has the opportunity to truly bring back that winning feeling.

It’ll be important that they can carry out this task for psychological reasons.

Surely the players will be aware of how hard they’ve been finding it to string results together.

Lose to Roy Hodgson’s side and it could be back to the drawing boards once again.