Everton’s Senegalese stars, Iliman Ndiaye and Idrissa Gana Gueye, are expected to benefit from the long break ahead of the clash against Manchester United.
Ndiaye and Gueye will get nearly two weeks’ rest to rejuvenate their batteries after accumulating a lot of minutes in recent months. While both have been regulars for David Moyes in the Premier League, they also led Senegal to Africa Cup of Nations triumph earlier this year and haven’t had a proper rest since returning from Morocco.
“Hopefully they’ve now got themselves back into the speed of the Premier League,” David Moyes said in the pre-match press conference at Finch Farm.
"I thought both of them had started to pick up in the last game, they both started to show they were getting back to what I thought the speed of the Premier League is and the intensity of what is required here.”
Idrissa Gana Gueye, of course, grabbed the limelight following a controversial sending off at Old Trafford in the previous fixture between the two sides earlier this season. Gueye slapped his own teammate, Michael Keane, before receiving a straight red and had to serve a three-game ban.
Everton, however, led by Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s fantastic strike pulled off a fantastic 1-0 win in Manchester and will be hoping to complete the double on Monday.
"Seems a long time ago but it was a huge 3 points because you have to try to pick up wins when you can and it didn't look likely as we went down to 10 men. We got a really good goal that night and did really well to hang on to it,” Moyes added.
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