EPL stats preview: Matchweek 3 - Cardiff City vs Everton

Everton’s Nikica Jelavic is in desperate need of goals

Hosts Cardiff come into this match on the back of an upset of the season as they defeated 2011-12 Premier League Champions Manchester City last weekend.

The Welsh side will be hoping that striker Fraizer Campbell will continue his good form which saw him score a brace against Manchester City.

On the other hand, Everton are still in search of their first win of the season following two drawn games against Norwich City and at home to West Brom respectively. There still uncertainty around the transfer saga of Everton’s star duo of Marouane Fellaini and Leighton Baines and sooner the issues are settled, the better it will be for Roberto Martinez’s side.

Let’s have a look at what stats have to offer for Cardiff City vs Everton

- Everton have failed to win their last 9 away matches in the Premier League.

- It will be the first meeting between the two sides in a competitive fixture since a 1980 League Cup tie which Everton won 2-1 on aggregate.

- Roberto Martinez has only one win in his last 10 Premier League games.

- Craig Bellamy of Cardiff City will become the only player to score for seven different clubs in the Premier League if he scores on Saturday.

- Cardiff have an opportunity to win back-to-back top-flight matches for the first time since April 1962.

- Cardiff have not beaten Everton at home since a 1-0 triumph at Ninian Park in an old First Division clash in December 1956.

- The Hosts have lost just one of their last 13 home matches in league competition.

- Nikica Jelavic has netted just once in 21 hours and 47 minutes of Premier League football. The last time the Croatian scored away from in the Premier League was way back in a 2-2 draw at Wigan on 6 October 2012.