Everton to receive more cards than Newcastle looks the angle here at 5/6 with Sky Bet – it’s short but bordering on banker material.
Everton don’t possess players that draw yellow cards off the opposition.
They play with great directness and defend deep – teams like that tend not to see passages of play where the game is stretched and cynical fouls are given away.
Over their last 44 Premier League games, only 1.48 yellow cards have been shown to the opposition per game – only Sheffield United averaged a lower figure – with every one of their eight games this season seeing the opposition team carded fewer than two times.
Newcastle didn’t pick up a single yellow card in either of the two meetings with Everton last season and only have picked up three in their last four meetings with the Toffees.
Nottingham Forest won’t be as welcoming as Brighton were last weekend for Chelsea, who showed great tactical understanding to pick their way through what was a mess of a Brighton defence.
Enzo Maresca is ticking along nicely with a team growing in confidence having won their last five games in all competitions.
It’s not perfect, far from it, but winning is a great habit.
Chelsea are fancied to edge this but Forest’s defensive process under Nuno Espirito Santo deserves more respect than the markets are giving them here.