Goodison Park has been home to Everton for over 130 years, it's one of England's finest stadiums and is steeped in history.
Manchester United have made some memorable visits to Goodison over the decades. Sir Alex Ferguson knew how difficult the ground was for the opposition to play at and he once described it as a nightmare.
“It is always a nightmare going there and it wouldn’t matter whether it was Dixie Dean playing for us," Ferguson said in 2010. “The atmosphere is fantastic, but we have had to deal with it and there is no problem with our record there.”
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United drew 3-3 against Everton after those comments and they lost their next visit to Goodison in the following season, highlighting why Ferguson was right to warn against complacency playing in front of a partisan crowd.
There have been 12 visits made to Goodison in all competitions since Ferguson retired in 2013 and results from those trips have been mixed, with United winning six of the games, losing four and drawing two.
Although Everton's 4-0 win in April 2019 is now over four years ago, it's still fresh in the memory because of how embarrassing the defeat was for an Ole Gunnar Solskjaer side that were simply humiliated.
The Solskjaer honeymoon period had ended before that visit to Everton, but the brutal performance meant United had lost six of their past eight games and it condemned them to a fifth successive away defeat.
It also exposed the scale of the challenge ahead for Solskjaer after inheriting a broken dressing room and being given the job on a permanent basis, with an underperforming group slipping back into bad habits.
Everton have steadily regressed as a club since that landmark victory against United and they have been fortunate not to lose their Premier League status in the last two seasons after surviving successive relegation battles.
Frank Lampard was their saviour in 2021/22 and Sean Dyche managed to keep them up last season, which seemed like the perfect appointment considering his record of overachieving with Burnley.
Dyche turned water into wine at Burnley and Everton's finances mean he's operating in a similar environment, however, after a tricky start to the current campaign his team have begun to show signs of progress.
Everton won 3-2 away at Crystal Palace before the international break and confidence will be high when they welcome United this weekend, especially since Goodison is expected to be a bear pit.
Last Friday, Everton were found to have broken the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules and they were handed an immediate 10-point deduction by an independent commission.
A points deduction in the Premier League is unprecedented and Evertonians feel aggrieved, with their punishment appearing unfair when the likes of Manchester City have over 100 charges hanging over them.
"The club will also monitor with great interest the decisions made in any other cases concerning the Premier League's profit and sustainability Rules," Everton stated in their official club statement.
The point deduction has taken Everton into the relegation zone and their incensed supporters have vowed to create a raucous atmosphere on Sunday to voice their anger at the Premier League.
One Evertonian has even gone viral for approaching the Premier League's offices in central London and screaming insults at the building. There will be thousands of people like that in attendance this weekend.
United will be in the firing line and it's no secret this group of players have a tendency to shrink in atmospheric grounds after delivering lifeless displays against Liverpool, Newcastle and Sevilla away last season.
Goodison Park will be a nightmare this weekend and United's players will need to fight for a result.
