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Four days after they met in the Carabao Cup, there’s a switch rematch between Newcastle United and Everton.

The Toffees prevailed 3-1 at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Thursday but we’re on Tyneside this evening, where the action gets underway at 20:00 GMT.

TEAM NEWS

Both sides make two changes from their midweek cup clash.

The fit-again Anthony Elanga returns to the Newcastle line-up for the first time in nearly two months.

Joelinton is also back in Matthias Jaissle’s starting XI as Jacob Ramsey and Jacob Murphy drop to the bench.

William Osula is fit enough to start for the Magpies, having shaken off a twisted ankle.

That means that Yoane Wissa has to content himself with a place among the substitutes once more.

Lewis Miley and Mathias Fernandez-Pardo miss out yet again.

As for the Toffees, no surprise that Jack Grealish is not involved following last week’s breach of club discipline.

But Jarrad Branthwaite is back in the side after missing two league and cup games due to the concussion protocol.

Harrison Armstrong also returns to the line-up, with Tyler Dibling and Hayden Hackney making way.

LINE-UPS

Everton XI: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Armstrong, Garner, Rohl, Dewsbury-Hall, George, Barry.

Subs: Travers, Maitland-Niles, Keane, Dibling, Johnson, Norgaard, Alcaraz, Hackney, Graham.

Newcastle United XI: Hornicek, Dedic, Schar, Burn, Hall, Gonzalez, Joelinton, Elanga, Willock, Barnes, Osula.

Subs: Pope, Botman, Bamba, Wissa, Thiaw, Steur, Toure, Murphy, Ramsey.


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  1. keefy59
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 29 mins ago

    Everton team news
    Grealish in the sports bar watching the game

  2. Geriatric Unathletic
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 29 mins ago

    Score draw please. No dogs in this fight..

    1. Freshy
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 20 mins ago

      1-1 with inconsequential scorrers

      1. Pompel
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 hour, 1 min ago

        2-2 rather

  3. Vasshin
    1 hour, 27 mins ago

    What can I do to make this team better?

    4ft and 0.0 in bank

    Kinksky
    Konsa calafiori Decuyper
    Odegard Mbuemo Rogers Palmer Tavernier
    Jackson Haaland
    Steele Pedro Mitchell Ajayi

    Thanks

    1. Ode needs to go and maybe Mbuemo

  4. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 23 mins ago

    Has Grealish ate all the pies? Is he doing a Kalvin Phillips?

  5. gooberman
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 23 mins ago

    I wonder how many big chances Barry will miss tonight.

    1. FPL Virgin
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      36 mins ago

      3.

      1. gooberman
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        26 mins ago

        There you go, there is 1. He's the worst premier league striker I think I've ever seen. Absolutely hopeless.

        1. x.jim.x
          24 mins ago

          I’d swap Zirkzee for him in a heartbeat

        2. Nomar
          24 mins ago

          He’s litter! Selling for Isaak this week.

          1. Gross Misconduct
            21 mins ago

            What a wicked game you play.

        3. Dthinger
          • Fantasy Football Scout Member
          19 mins ago

          Have you forgotten Soldado?

    2. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      33 mins ago

      18 minutes in and he hasn't even touched the ball once

  6. F4L
    1 hour, 22 mins ago

    will it be lewis haul today?

    1. RICICLE
      1 hour, 15 mins ago

      Hope so bud! He’s looking a bit slow down his side though

    2. Sun Jihai
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 9 mins ago

      Just 0.04 xG for Everton so far, so the CS looks pretty nailed!

  7. FPL Virgin
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 21 mins ago

    What's a "switch rematch"?

    1. Gross Misconduct
      41 mins ago

      Read the next sentence.

      1. FPL Virgin
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        36 mins ago

        Shouldn't it be a "swift rematch"?

        1. Gross Misconduct
          29 mins ago

          Depends how fast the players are running.

  8. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 11 mins ago

    GW10 Benching headache. Currently it's Muharemović, Davis and Gibbs-White.

    1. RICICLE
      1 hour, 9 mins ago

      I feel like Muha is gonna score against Spurs, he’s nailed to start in my 11

      1. Revival
        • Fantasy Football Scout Member
        1 hour, 1 min ago

        Currently starting Mykolenko over him. Don't get better than Coventry at home.

  9. Brosstan
    1 hour, 9 mins ago

    This game screams 0-0. Should have started Hall

    1. RICICLE
      34 mins ago

      I can only hope so, I don’t trust either side to keep cleanies

      1. Nomar
        9 mins ago

        This. But it’s MNF, which usually throws up 0-0 drek!

    2. Haalander
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      34 mins ago

      It does as long as Newcastle keep sending in long high balls into a defence that heads them for fun and are about a foot taller than any of Newcastle forward line.

    3. Moon Dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      25 mins ago

      Nah, it's St James Park under the lights. The crowd will lift the intensity.

  10. Brosstan
    1 hour, 6 mins ago

    Really wastes Barry A

    1. Brosstan
      1 hour, 6 mins ago

      Röhl *

  11. Salalalalah
    1 hour, 5 mins ago

    Leeds or Bou defender for next few weeks?

    1. Haalander
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      1 hour, 3 mins ago

      Either or think Bournemouth fixtures a bit more favourable tho

    2. RICICLE
      1 hour, 3 mins ago

      Ideally both but has to be a BOU defender with slightly better fixtures

  12. Brosstan
    1 hour, 3 mins ago

    Lol Barry is such a massive donkey. Misses the ball and kicks the air 8 feet out...

  13. lilmessipran
    1 hour, 3 mins ago

    T Barry masterclass this..i started this dude over De Cuyper

  14. Haalander
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    1 hour, 2 mins ago

    Newcastle showing nothing going forward

    1. Feanor
      just now

      Dead since Gordon left

  15. RICICLE
    59 mins ago

    Who is better donkey?

    Barry or Nunez?

    1. Nomar
      58 mins ago

      That’s a tough one

    2. Moon Dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      54 mins ago

      Barry has scored 7 goals in 12 games this season. He's not Nunez bad surely.

      1. RICICLE
        52 mins ago

        Fair point, they were just the main two names that stood out to me haha

        1. Brosstan
          48 mins ago

          Jozy Altidore enters the competition

          1. RICICLE
            1 min ago

            Oh yeah! He completely evaded my thinking, also Timo Werner has just entered my thoughts haha!

      2. TheBiffas
        39 mins ago

        I'm sure Darwin had just as good of a purple patch at some point

  16. Dr Funk
    57 mins ago

    Can anyone beat 152 points benched so far?

    1. Dr Funk
      56 mins ago

      Oh, and I've played my bench boost so that week I obviously had 0 points benched.

    2. fantasyfog
      54 mins ago

      Overall I take it, will have a look out of interest

    3. fantasyfog
      53 mins ago

      No, 33 here

    4. Revival
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      49 mins ago

      I had one bad season before where I benched a lot of points but it was like 350 points in total for the season. 152 in just a quarter of the season is insane.

    5. Brosstan
      47 mins ago

      Stop benching Gross and De Cuyper

    6. keefy59
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      45 mins ago

      Lasts season if I played my strongest 11 each week
      But kept the same captain I'd have won FPL by 38 points
      Obviously I had a strong rotational squad
      I had all the ingredient's but couldn't bake the cake .

      1. Gross Misconduct
        3 mins ago

        To paraphrase Eric Morecambe, you played all the right players, but not necessarily in the right order!

  17. fantasyfog
    56 mins ago

    I've got £7.4 mil to spend on a midfielder to add to these 4

    Groß Palmer Rogers Cherki

    A Tavenier
    B Schade
    C Another Brighton mid
    D anyone else I'm missing

    1. Warby84
      just now

      A or Manzambi

  18. Da Kril
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    53 mins ago

    Clip of Barry missing that ball and kicking Osula will live a long, long time on the internet as a meme. Just sayin'

  19. Ajax Hamsterdam
    52 mins ago

    I could BB this :

    Kinsky Davis muha Jackson

    1. Ajax Hamsterdam
      16 mins ago

      Good idea ?

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        1 min ago

        I could sell Davis for any Defender apart from Gab

    2. Bobby Digital
      15 mins ago

      It's alright, nothing massive...

      1. Ajax Hamsterdam
        2 mins ago

        What about it I replace Davis with hilll/tark?

        1. Bobby Digital
          1 min ago

          Tark out of those, but not looked into Everton long term fixtures

          1. Ajax Hamsterdam
            just now

            Cheers.

    3. Gizzachance
      1 min ago

      Yep

  20. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    47 mins ago

    Is Hall on corners from both sides? I thought he had the other side only...

  21. Warby84
    41 mins ago

    Trafford (Leno)
    De Cuyper Gabriel Calafiori Konsa (Muha)
    Tavernier Gros Barcola (Manzambi Schade)
    Jackson Haaland Isak

    Gtg?

  22. FPL Blow-In
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    40 mins ago

    Come on Barnes, get something second half

  23. RICICLE
    39 mins ago

    If Hall somehow miraculously gets a cleanie here I’m taking it and running and immediately selling him, in fact he can be sold anyway, Newcastle defence is atrocious!

    1. Baps Hunter
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      3 mins ago

      Calafiori down to 6 pts, just noticed, makes me feel better anyway.

    2. Feanor
      2 mins ago

      I'm keeping for a bit since he's in no danger of dropping price

      Already did Egan to Silva, and MGW is next to go.

  24. Sun Jihai
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    39 mins ago

    This is painful to watch with KDH as my differential tonight

    1. Moon Dog
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      3 mins ago

      KDH & MGW must be so frustrated with their teammates this season. They would cook at a top half team.

  25. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    39 mins ago

    Armstrong has been practising shooting with Barry

    1. All Hail K
      • Fantasy Football Scout Member
      just now

      Even Barry cringed watching that one.

  26. Emiliano Sala
    39 mins ago

    Barcola or tzolis?

    1. Gizzachance
      just now

      Barcola

  27. Baps Hunter
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    38 mins ago

    Giving 1 minute "penalty" to Hall because of that wasn't justice.

  28. EffPeeEll
    24 mins ago

    There's been a goal since the half time whistle ended

    1. EffPeeEll
      5 mins ago

      a punter from the crowd nailed it.

  29. Moon Dog
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    23 mins ago

    15 shots, 0 goals.

    Remember when these teams had Isak & Lukaku...

  30. Revival
    • Fantasy Football Scout Member
    22 mins ago

    Everton 0.92 xG from first half