Yerry Mina starts for Everton for today's crucial game with West Ham United.
The centre back is the only change from the side that began last week's defeat to Southampton and the match represents his first start since the Boxing Day loss to Wolverhampton Wanderers, when Conor Coady was ineligible to face his parent club.
Mina starts alongside Coady and James Tarkowski as he comes in for Ben Godfrey, who is absent from the matchday squad. Frank Lampard appears to be lining up with two up top, continuing the Dominic Calvert-Lewin and Demarai Gray partnership.
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Anthony Gordon remains on the bench, where Under-21 starlet Isaac Price and academy graduate Ellis Simms also have a place. Seamus Coleman captains the side. For West Ham, Danny Ings makes the squad after the club completed his signing before Friday's noon deadline for eligibility for today's fixture. The striker was fancied this month by Lampard but instead makes the bench to face the Blues, who he has a prolific record against - including scoring for Aston Villa in Everton's 2-1 defeat at Villa Park in August.
Starting XI: Pickford; Mykolenko, Coady, Tarkowski, Mina, Coleman; Iwobi, Onana, Gueye, Calvert-Lewin, Gray.
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