Venue:Goodison Park
Date:23rd August
Time:16:00 GMT
Everton will be hosting Manchester City this weekend and will be looking to cause the big boys a problem in order to continue their success having already gotten off to a good start this season. Manchester City have gotten off to an impressive start this season and they know that it is not going to be an easy three points for them this Sunday. They will need to put up a good overall performance. Everton on the other hand will have to put up a monumental effort to claim the much needed three points.
WHAT THE MANAGERS SAY ?
Everton manager Roberto Martinez: "Every time we play Man City we usually have great games - I expect Sunday to be no different.
"They are a very good side. We have seen a team that is fully refreshed, who have added faces but kept their title-winning core.
"The Southampton game has given us a feel-good factor and shown what we can do. The performance showed a level needed to win games."
Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini: "No one in the squad is thinking about what will happen in May. We have only played two games, we played very well and it is important to continue doing that.
"It is important to have a gap between the big teams, but last year Chelsea had a gap of eight points to us and in January we were in the same position in the table.
"Football changes every week so we are not thinking about anything else but Everton. They have Lukaku in a good moment and we will have to play with a lot of intensity if we want to win there."
TEAM NEWS
Everton boss Roberto Martinez has made it clear that he has no issues picking John Stones despite the current speculation about his future at Goodison Park.Substitutes Kevin Mirallas and Muhamed Besic who've returned from injury could feature this weekend while Aiden McGeady who is also fit could start.Steven Pienaar (hamstring), Darron Gibson (foot), Tony Hibbert (knee) and Leighton Baines (ankle) will continue on the bench.
New entrant Nicolas Otamendi who has come to the Etihad for £32m is likely to be on the bench. Pablo Zabaleta could be out for a month with a knee injury but Delph and Fernando are fit and could feature but otherwise City are expected to continue with the same side that defeated the blues 3-0 last weekend.
Expected Line-up
Everton
Howard
Galloway
Jagielka
Stones
Coleman
MacCarthy
Barry
Cleverley
Barkley
Kone
Lukaku
Manchester City
Hart
Kolarov
Mangala
Kompany
Sagna
Fernandinho
Yaya Toure
Sterling
David Silva
Jesus Navas
Aguero
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