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Half-time: Everton 0-0 FulhamDominic Calvert-Lewin had the ball in the net for Everton, only to have his tap-in ruled out for offside after Idrissa Gana Gueye had smashed a wonderful shot off the underside of the bar from 25 yards out. Dwight McNeil will also feel he should have scored for Everton, after Mykolenko teed him up with an excellent cross.
Fulham have gone close too, with Emile Smith Rowe, Adama Traore, Andreas Pereira and Alex Iwobi all passing up chances ranging from the half-decent to the excellent. This game is there for the taking.
44 min: A Traore cross from the right is chested down by Jimenez into the path of Iwobi, who’d shouted at him to leave it for him, at the far post. Leaning back as he shoots, the Fulham midfielder fires over the bar from about five yards. Yet another excellent chance goes to waste but at least Traore is starting to get some decent crosses in. It’s half-time.
42 min: An Adama Traore cross from the right is too high for Raul Jiminez but drops kindly for Smith-Rowe at the far post. Perhaps caught unawares, his first touch is woeful and he runs the ball out of play.
Smith Rowe in action with Everton’s Jordan Pickford. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters38 min: Mykolenko sends an inch-perfect whipped cross from the left into the path of Dwight McNeil, who sends a thumping header straight at Bernd Leno. He should have scored!
36 min: The game drags itself up the Match of the Day pecking order as Tete fires over for Fulham, then Calvert-Lewin is denied again, this time by some good defending from Sander Berge. This is much better from both sides.
34 min: That looked close. I thought Calvert-Lewin was just about being played onside by Kenny Tete but the curtain-twitchers in Stockley Park got their rulers and set-squares out before agreeing with the onfield decision.
30 min: Ndiaye takes on Tete down the left flank and plays the ball inside to McNeil. It finds its way to Idrissa Gueye, who smashes the ball against the bar from distance. It breaks to Calvert-Lewin, who spanks it home on the follow-up, only for his effort to be ruled out for a very tight offside.
Calvert-Lewin scores a goal that was later disallowed. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/ReutersEverton manager Sean Dyche addresses a linesman. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA28 min: Adama Traore tries his luck, smashing a shot towards the near post only to be denied by Pickford. Everton fail to clear the ball and a cross towards the far post is headed back across the face of goal towards Smith-Rowe by Jiminez. The Fulham midfielder has to stretch and is unable to keep his volley down and fires over the bar.
26 min: Adama Traore gets the better of Myolenko by the right touchline but his cross into the Everton penalty area is dismal. The ball bounces in front of Michael Keane, who hacks clear.
23 min: Iliman Ndiaye wins a cheap free-kick for Everton wide on the left a long way out, going to ground under minimal contact from Tete. Dwight McNeil sends the ball into the penalty area, where Alex Iwobi is able to steer a header towards Leno.
20 min: Tete tries to play Traore in behind the Everton defence with a pass to the byline but overhits his delivery and sends the ball out for a goal-kick. It’s that kind of game.
18 min: Sander Berge slips while trying to control a dropping ball in a central area and inadvertently touches it with his hand. The referee waves play on.
16 min: While it’s far too early to call it definitively, this match already looks to be a prime candidate for “Last on the Match of the Day running order”. Truth be told, it was almost certainly among the favourites before a ball had been kicked this weekend. Brentford 4-3 Ipswich Town is currently the one to beat for top billing.
14 min: Another curled Mykolenko ball from deep into the Fulham penalty area is headed clear by Antonee Robinson. The American really put his back – and his head, obviously – into that one.
12 min: Jiminez and Pereira link up just outside the Everton box and for reasons best known to himself, the Brazilian eschews a shooting opportunity with the ball sitting up nicely for him, the goal at his mercy and Tarkowski off balance in front of him. A good chance goes to waste for Fulham.
11 min: Pereira plays the ball out wide to Adama Traore but overhits his pass, fails to find the Fulham winger and sends it out for a throw-in.
9 min: Everton fans appeal for a penalty after Calvert-Lewin goes to ground claiming he’d been fouled by Bassey. There was contact, but gravity had got the better of the Everton striker before Bassey arrived on the scene.
Everton’s Calvert-Lewin in action with Fulham’s Bassey. Photograph: Peter Powell/Reuters7 min: Kenny Tete swings a cross into the Everton boss from the right. Raul Jimenez gives Tarkowski a nudge to make room for himself but shoots weakly into the gloves of Jordan Pickford.
On current form you’d expect the Mexican international to do better, although VAR might have intervened if he’d scored because he did seem to shove Tarkowski.
5 min: Mykolenko tries to curl a pass from deep into the path of Dominic Calvert-Lewin but slightly overhits his delivery. Calvin Bassey cleans up at the back for Fulham.
4 min: It’s eerily quiet inside Goodison Park in these very early stages, as both teams try to suss each other out.
Fulham’s Traore and Everton’s Mykolenko battle for the ball. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA3 min: Iliman Ndiaye puts the ball out of play for a Fulham throw-in while trying to link up with Mykolenko down the left touchline. He was operating in a very tight space, so we won’t be too critical.
2 min: Andreas Pereira throws himself to the ground just outside the Everton penalty area after a very minor coming-together with Vitaliy Mykolenko. He’s chancing his arm and the referee is having none of it.
Everton v Fulham is go …1 min: Fulham get the ball rolling and it doesn’t take long to find its way back to the feet of their goalkeeper, Bernd Leno.
Goodison Park remembers: In an otherwise silent stadium, Sergeant Andy Manning plays The Last Post after members of assorted British military forces march out on to the pitch to lay commemorative wreaths.
Not long now: The players make their way out on to the pitch and with this being Everton’s final home game ahead of Remembrance Sunday, team captains Bernd Leno and James Tarkowski will lay poppy wreaths in the centre-circle ahead of the usual pre-match formalities.
The Premier League table: Today’s results, not least Brentford’s whiteknuckle win against Ipswich Town, means that Fulham go into this match in 12th place, while Everton remain in 16th.
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Dominic Calvert-Lewin: With his contract due to expire at the end of the season, the Everton striker is showing no great inclination to sign a new one and looks set to leave the club on a free transfer at the end of the season unless the club decide to sell him in January to recoup some money.
However, Sean Dyche has ruled out the possibility, saying survival in the Premiership is worth more than any funds that might be generated by the sale of the striker.
“The bigger prize in this case is Premier League football for Everton Football Club,” said the manager. “You know when I came in it was like you need to safeguard what we’re doing, so that’s the No 1 priority. Along that journey and timeline we’ve had to obviously bring money in. That’s been quite apparent and spend less and bring more in, lower the wages of course.
“But to be giving players away at any cost because you need some money, fortunately we’ve never been pushed that far and that’s still the same now. We can still make decisions on situations and I can’t see anything other than him being here certainly until the end of his contract and then hopefully beyond. We’ll see.”
Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin could leave the club as a free agent when his contract expires at the end of the season. Photograph: Alan Walter/REX/ShutterstockMarco Silva: Having spent a little over 18 months in charge of Everton from June 2018 and taken to them to an eighth place finish in the Premier League, Marco Silva is likely to get a warm welcome on what is likely to be his final visit to Goodison Park this afternoon ahead of the club’s move to their new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock.
The Fulham manager remembered his time at Goodison Park fondly when the subject was raised at his press conference yesterday. “It was an honour to manage a club like Everton,” he said. “I’m not the first or last, for sure, to say that because when you are there, you can feel how it’s a big club, how they have a massive fan base.
“It’s a historic [stadium], an old school one as well and there’s something special around the place. You can feel it. As a home manager, you can feel it more because it’s week-in, week-out. Even when you go there playing away you can feel it as well. It’s a special place to play.”
Today’s match officials Referee: John Brooks.
Assistants: Simon Bennett and Darren Cann.
Fourth official: Leigh Doughty.
VAR: Stuart Attwell.
Assistant VAR: Constantine Hatzidakis.
John Brooks leads today’s team of match officials at Goodison Park. Photograph: Paul Greenwood/REX/ShutterstockThose teams: Jarrod Brantwaithe returns from a thigh injury to take his place on the bench for Everton, who are unchanged from the side that beat Ipswich last weekend.
Marco Silva makes one change to the side that lost against Villa and it’s enforced: Issa Diop comes in for Joachim Anderson, who is suspended.
Everton v Fulham line-upsEverton (4-2-3-1): Pickford; Young, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko; Gueye, Doucoure; Harrison, Ndiaye, McNeil; Calvert-Lewin
Subs: Virginia, Patterson, Mangala, Beto, O’Brien, Coleman, Lindstrom, Branthwaite, Armstrong
Fulham (4-2-3-1): Leno; Tete, Diop, Bassey, Robinson; Berge, Pereira; Traore, Smith Rowe, Iwobi; Jimenez
Subs: Benda, Cuenca, Sessegnon, Reed, Cairney, King, Wilson, Nelson, Muniz
Early team newsFulham central defender Joachim Anderson sits this one out on the Naughty Step after being sent off against Aston Villa last time out, while defensive midfielder Sasa Lukic and right-back Timothy Castagne both remain sidelined. Carlos Vniicius and Jorge Cuenca are both due to be assessed ahead of kick-off but neither player is likely to start.
Everton are without James Garner, who is suffering from a back injury, while Armando Broja, Tim Iroegbunam and Youssef Chermiti remain sidelined. Central defender Jarrad Brantwaithe and midfielder Jesper Lindstrom will both be included in today’s matchday squad after recovering from injury and illness respectively.
Jarrad Branthwaite has made just one appearance for Everton this season but is expected to be in today’s matchday squad. Photograph: Molly Darlington/ReutersPremier League: Everton v FulhamGoodison Park is the venue for this evening’s set-to between Everton and Fulham, where the hosts will attempt to make it five top flight games without defeat following a dreadful start to the season that saw them lose their opening four games.
They entertain a Fulham side that arrive on the back of consecutive defeats at the hands of Manchester City and Aston Villa, although it could legitimately be argued they deserved to take a point from at least one, if not both of those matches. Kick-off on Merseyside is at 5.30pm but stay tuned in the meantime for team news and build-up.