Full Everton starting line-up and team news for Premier League match vs Aston Villa
Returning Everton manager David Moyes has made two changes from the side that lost 1-0 at Bournemouth 11 days ago in Sean Dyche’s final match in charge for what is his first fixture back as Blues boss against Aston Villa.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who subsequently missed the 2-0 FA Cup third round win over Peterborough United, returns to spearhead the attack at the expense of injured loan man Armando Broja, who was stretchered off against the Posh shortly after he replaced goalscorer Beto up front.
Moyes makes one other alteration in personnel to the team that started at the Vitality Stadium as Jack Harrison comes in for Jesper Lindstrom.
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With Everton having failed to score in eight of their last 10 Premier League matches under Dyche, it remains to be seen whether Moyes, who primarily deployed a 4-2-3-1 formation both in the latter years of his first Blues spell and during his two spells in charge of West Ham United, will deviate from the 4-5-1 approach favoured by his predecessor.
James Tarkowski retains the captain’s armband in the absence of Seamus Coleman, in front of goalkeeper Jordan Pickford, who played under Moyes at Sunderland, and returns in between the sticks for his 300th Everton appearance having been rested against Peterborough to give understudy Joao Virginia a chance. Moyes also gives a chance on the substitutes bench to 18-year-old Dutch forward Martin Sherif.
Everton line-up: Pickford, Young, Mykolenko, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Gueye, Mangala, Doucoure, Harrison, Ndiaye, Calvert-Lewin.
Substitutes: Virginia, Begovic, Patterson, Keane, Beto, O’Brien, Lindstrom, Armstrong, Sherif.
