Ahead of the Premier League’s weekend action, Sportsmail will be providing you with team news, betting odds and Opta stats. Here is all you need to know as Everton take on Leicester at Goodison Park on Wednesday night.
Wednesday’s match will be Sam Allardyce’s 1000th game in charge of an English league club
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Everton vs Leicester (Goodison Park)
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Everton
Defender Seamus Coleman returns to Everton’s squad for the first time in 11 months for the visit of Leicester.
The Republic of Ireland international played an hour of the Under-23’s win over Portsmouth last week after recovering from a double fracture of his leg last March.
Fellow defender Ramiro Funes Mori is back in training after knee surgery but is some way off a comeback, while midfielder James McCarthy has begun his rehabilitation after a double fracture of his leg last time out against West Brom.
Provisional squad: Pickford, Kenny, Holgate, Jagielka, Martina, Schneiderlin, Gueye, Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bolasie, Tosun, Robles, Coleman, https://ww88vi.com Williams, Keane, Garbutt, Davies, Besic, Vlasic, Rooney, Niasse.
Seamus Coleman has returned to Everton’s squad for the first time in 11 months for Wednesday
Leicester
Leicester boss Claude Puel is likely to revert to his big guns as he looks to extend the Foxes’ unbeaten run to seven games at Everton.
Puel made 10 changes for Saturday’s 5-1 FA Cup fourth-round victory at Peterborough, with only central defender Harry Maguire retained from the 2-0 Premier League win over Watford a week earlier.
Strikers Fousseni Diabate and Kelechi Iheanacho will hope two goals apiece will keep them in the manager’s thoughts, but the game comes too soon for skipper Wes Morgan as he continues his recovery from a hamstring injury while strikers Leonardo Ulloa and Ahmed Musa have gone out on loan.
Provisional squad: Schmeichel, Hamer, Jakupovic, Maguire, Huth, Fuchs, Simpson, Chilwell, Benalouane, Dragovic, James, King, Albrighton, Amartey, Gray, Silva, Ndidi, Mahrez, Iborra, Choudhury, Vardy, Slimani, Okazaki, Iheanacho, Diabate.
Leicester boss Claude Puel is likely to revert to his big guns after the FA Cup fourth-round win
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Everton have only failed to score in two of their last 15 Premier League games against Leicester City, although one of those blanks came this season (also 0-0 in November 2001).
The Toffees have won two of their last three Premier League meetings with the Foxes, as many as in their previous 15 combined.
Everton are winless in their last six Premier League matches (D3 L3), after winning four of the five prior to that (D1).
The Foxes have kept clean sheets in all three of their Premier League games in 2018 so far – there have only been eight previous occasions of a club keeping a clean sheet in their first four games of a calendar year in the competition, most recently by Manchester City in 2013.
Leicester won their previous Premier League match on a Wednesday 4-1 vs Southampton in December – they had only netted four goals across their previous 11 Wednesday top-flight matches.
This will be Sam Allardyce’s 1000th game in charge of an English league club in all competitions; his current record is P999 W388 D263 L348.
Jamie Vardy has scored three goals in his last three league appearances against Everton
In 10 Premier League games under Sam Allardyce, Everton have averaged an xG total of 0.88 per game. Before he came in, the Toffees were averaging chances worth 1.10 per game.
Indeed, under Allardyce Everton have had fewer attempts on target than any other Premier League side (25).
Jamie Vardy has scored three goals in his last three Premier League appearances against Everton. The England forward has scored three and assisted two more in his five league games against the Toffees overall.
Wayne Rooney failed to score in his five Premier League games against Leicester for Man Utd but has netted in two of his three for Everton.
