It's Everton vs Aston Villa this afternoon
It's Everton vs Aston Villa this afternoon
Welcome to our live coverage of Everton vs Aston Villa in the Premier League at Hill Dickinson Stadium. Kick-off is 3pm and the Blues will be looking to continue where they left off before the international break.
Back-to-back top-flight victories over Brighton & Hove Albion and Wolves, sandwiched between a Carabao Cup success over Mansfield Town, made it three weeks in a week for the buoyant Blues.
Villa, however, have started poorly, with their 3-0 home loss to Crystal Palace stretching their winless and goalless start to the league campaign to three games.
Unai Emery's side did bolster their squad on transfer deadline day, signing Jadon Sancho on loan, his former Manchester United team-mate Victor Lindelof on a free transfer, as well as Harvey Elliott on a deal from Liverpool that will see him sign permanently at the end of the season.
had already done the bulk of their business before the window shut and while manager David Moyes admitted he missed out at least one defender, he did bolster his midfield options with the arrival of Merlin Rohl.
The Germany Under-21 international captain is likely to be in the squad today named by Moyes, who is sweating on the fitness of key men and .
But one man certain to start for the Blues is on-loan Manchester City star Jack Grealish, who will face his boyhood club on the back of being named Premier League player of the month for the first time in his career.
Stick with us for team news when it drops at 1.45pm plus all the pre-match build-up followed by an in-game commentary stream and then the best post-match reaction and analysis.
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