Tottenham Hotspur FC 0-0 Everton FC: Premier League Match Report, 12 September 2026

A fourth match without a goal for the home side: Tottenham Hotspur FC 0-0 Everton FC, goalless at the interval and goalless at the end. With nothing scored there are no scorers or minutes being withheld here — the two lines in the frontmatter are the complete account of the afternoon.

Tottenham came in seventeenth on a single point from three, goal difference minus five, after a 3-0 defeat at Brentford, a 2-0 home defeat by Newcastle and a goalless draw at Nottingham Forest. This makes 360 minutes of league football without a goal and a second consecutive 0-0. Everton arrived unbeaten, having beaten Crystal Palace 2-0 and drawn at Bournemouth and at home with Manchester United, and this was the first match of their season in which they did not score either.

The fixture's history had pointed at the ground rather than the clubs. Thirteen goals across the four previous meetings, but eight of those came in the two matches played on Merseyside and only five in the two played here — a 4-0 in August 2024 and a 1-0 in May 2026, with the visitors failing to score in both. That pattern held in its most extreme available form.

Tottenham have two points from four. The backdrop is last season's seventeenth place on 41 points, two clear of the relegation places, and a club whose weakness then was at the other end — 48 scored, 57 conceded. They have opened this campaign having conceded five in four and scored none. Four matches is a short run rather than a diagnosis, but it is four matches in which one half of the problem has become absolute.

Everton take a third straight draw and stand on six points from four, unbeaten, goal difference plus two. Measured against a thirteenth-place finish on 49 points, one win and three draws is a steady opening month rather than a striking one, and this was their second clean sheet of it.

Our pre-match call was Under 2.5 Goals at 1.74. It won by the largest margin the market allows, and the strands behind it delivered in the order the preview listed them: Tottenham had not scored in three matches and did not score in a fourth; Everton had not conceded more than twice in any match this season and did not concede at all here; and the two previous meetings at this ground had produced five goals between them with the away side blank in both.

We held the rating at medium because both clubs' full-season averages last year sat above the line and the four-match head-to-head averaged 3.25 a game. That was a fair check to run on ourselves, and this time it cost nothing. The risk we named was an early Tottenham goal opening the match up. It never came, which is the whole of their season so far.

Verdict: won