The challenge of playing away at the home of current Premier League Champions Arsenal, under the continued tutelage of former Evertonian Mikel Arteta, is not something to be taken lightly after Everton were so easily stripped of their unbeaten record last weekend against Chelsea.
But we know the approach David Moyes will take to this challenge only to well. Something about taking a knife to a gunfight? So how dioes he set up to confront the enormous wealth of talent his former pupil can call upon?
Youngsters Tyrique George and Jake O’Brien get a starting chance to make a difference but Johnson somehow gets a starting role, with Branthwaite and Grealish absent, Maitland-Niles dropped to the bench.
**Everton:** Pickford; Rohl, Tarkowski, Mykolenko, O’Brien; Garner, Armstrong; Johnson, Dewsbury-Hall, George; Barry.
_Subs:_ Travers, King, Maitland-Niles, Keane, Norgaard, Hackney, Dibling, Alcaraz, Graham.