Saturday Premier League 3pm Kick-Offs: Toffees can end sticky spell

Everton 2.16 v West Brom 4.20; The Draw 3.20

(Significant Opta Stat: West Brom have failed to score in 10 of their last 16 league visits to Goodison Park, including three of their last four.)

It's been a tough few weeks for Everton with boss Sam Allardyce admitting that his 'honeymoon' period is well and truly over following four straight defeats.

The narrow away loss at Bournemouth was perhaps a slight surprise but subsequent losses to Manchester United, and away at Liverpool and Tottenham were to be expected, though the concern for Big Sam was the fact that his men barely had a shot on target in a few of those games.

The Toffees have splashed the cash again, bringing in £27m striker Cenk Tosun from Besiktas and this week signing Theo Walcott from Arsenal for £20m. With the likes of Gylfi Sigurdsson, Wayne Rooney, and a fit again Yannick Bolasie in his attacking ranks, Allardyce easily has one of the best group of players to work with outside of the 'big six'.

And with no cup football to concentrate on Everton could well enjoy a great second half of the season, starting with a win over West Brom on Saturday.

Prior to their recent poor run the Toffees were unbeaten in eight games that included three consecutive home wins over Huddersfield, Swansea, and West Ham, scoring nine goals in the process and conceding just one. They face a similar test this weekend, and I'm very surprised that they aren't trading at odds-on to beat lowly West Brom.

The Baggies recorded their first league win in 21 games seven days ago but it came at home to a Brighton side that are really struggling on the road, now not scoring a single goal in any of their last six road trips.

Alan Pardew's men may well have gained some much needed confidence from that victory but they haven't exactly become world beaters overnight and on all known form, and ability within each squad, I have to put Everton up as the best bet of the day at an odds-against price.

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Back Everton @ 2.16 to beat West Brom (best bet)

Leicester 1.90 v Watford 4.60; The Draw 3.90

(Significant Opta Stat: Leicester have won seven of their last nine home league matches against Watford, including each of their last two Premier League clashes.)

It's been a mixed bag of results for Leicester since Claude Puel replaced Craig Shakespeare but it's largely been a successful return to the Premier League for the former Southampton boss.

Four straight wins were followed by a run of five games without victory, and in recent weeks the Foxes have gone four matches without defeat, all without conceding a single goal. At the King Power Stadium Leicester have only really suffered one bad result under Puel and I fancy them quite strongly to add to recent home wins over Tottenham, Burnley, and Huddersfield.

Jamie Vardy should return to the starting line-up for the visit of Watford after playing just a few minutes against his former club Fleetwood in midweek, meaning Puel can name his strongest side possible with only Wes Morgan definitely ruled out.

The Hornets have a poor record in Leicester, losing seven of their last nine league visits there including the last two Premier League outings, and they will travel north on Saturday in quite poor form having taken just five points from a possible 30 in their last 10 league games.

Boss Marco Silva also has a mounting injury list too with no fewer than eight players ruled out through while midfielder Tom Cleverley faces a late fitness test.

Silva's men showed some fighting spirit to come from 0-2 down at home to Southampton last week but in their current form it's hard to see them going to Leicester and coming away with anything but an eighth league defeat in 11 games.

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Back Leicester @ 1.90 to beat Watford

West Ham 2.02 v Bournemouth 4.20; The Draw 3.65

(Significant Opta Stat: The Hammers have scored 15 goals in their last six Premier League matches, one more than they'd scored in their opening 17 league games this term.)

West Ham were going through a really tough spell towards the end of Slaven Bilic's reign and I have to admit that I was extremely doubtful about the chances of their fortunes turning around under new boss David Moyes.

But the former Everton and Manchester United boss has so far proved his doubters wrong, guiding the Hammers to four wins and four draws since his arrival. The major difference has been their ability to put the ball in the back of the net, with Moyes getting the best out of Marko Arnautovic and Manuel Lanzini, while Andy Carroll - as he always is - has been a real defence un-settler when able to play.

Unfortunately for Hammers fans Carroll is out injured again, which probably ends any chance of him going to Chelsea in a surprise transfer, and Moyes has a few other injury concerns with the likes of Winston Reid, Cheikhou Kouyate, and the seemingly unwanted Javier Hernandez rated doubtful for Saturday's visit of Bournemouth.

The Cherries suffered a shock 3-0 defeat to Wigan in the FA Cup in midweek, and although boss Eddie Howe fielded a fringe team that night it can't have done anything for confidence and morale suffering such a heavy defeat to a team two leagues below.

And away from home it's no wins in six games now for Bournemouth, while just last month they needed a highly controversial stoppage-time goal to snatch a draw against West Ham in a thrilling 3-3 outcome.

We should probably wager high on goals when these two meet at the weekend given the fact that in their last five meetings a total of 23 of them have been scored, that's an impressive average of 4.6 per match. But the gut feeling is that Moyes' men will continue their recent good form and make it seven games without defeat by taking all three points.

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Back West Ham @ 2.02 to beat Bournemouth