Everton travel to the north-east to face Newcastle United at St James’ Park on Monday night; kick-off is at 8 pm GMT.
The return match of a double header created following Everton’s convincing fourth-round victory over the Geordies on Thursday night in the Carabao Cup looks like it could develop into a highly competitive game with The Geordies smarting from the result that saw them dumped out of the last 16.
They sit just a point and two places above Everton in the Premier League Table after successive defeats to Chelsea and Arsenal saw The Toffees slip rapidly down the table to 14th. But Everton have now beaten Newcastle Utd twice this season — by the same 3-1 scoreline. They say good things come in threes…
Team News
The official lineups have been announced and Newcastle are without five players, while Everton welcome back Jarrad Branthwaite. But there will be no rapprochement just yet for Jack Grealish, who needs to build back his match fitness after illness caused him to miss the Arsenal game, and he then skipped training, much to David Moyes’s displeasure.
George retains his place and Armstrong is back instead of Hackney, leaving a lot of forward-thinking attacking players on the bench.
Confirmed Lineups
Newcastle Utd: Hornicek; Dedic, Schar, Burn, Hall; Gonzalez, Joelinton, Willock, Barnes, Elanga, Osula.
Subs: Pope, Botman, Bamba, Wissa, Thiaw, Steur, Toure, Murphy, Ramsey.
Everton: Pickford; O’Brien, Branthwaite, Tarkowski, Mykolenko; Armstrong, Garner, Dewsbury-Hall; Rohl, Barry, George.
Subs: Travers, Maitland-Niles, Keane, Norgaard, Hackney, Alcaraz, Johnson, Dibling, Graham.
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