Everton return to Premier League action this evening when they welcome Leicester City to Goodison Park.
The Blues, who drew with Fulham last time out, are unbeaten in their past five Premier League games, winning three of them. Frank Lampard’s side have also kept a clean sheet in three of their four most recent home league matches.
But Leicester, who have scored in each of their last 12 league games at Goodison, head to Merseyside looking to return to winning ways following last weekend's home defeat to Manchester City. And ahead of the game, below is how three pundits see the game panning out.
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Mark Lawrenson - Paddy Power - Everton 2-1 Leicester
Leicester put up a good showing against Manchester City while Everton got a good draw away from home. I think this is a real test for Leicester but if they don’t get anything against Everton it’s almost back to square one.
Chris Sutton - BBC Sport - 2-1 Everton
Leicester are still in the bottom three but it feels like they have turned a corner. They lost to Manchester City last week, but they gave the defending champions a good game and their confidence is up at the moment.
Even so, I think Everton are going to win this one. As we saw when they beat Crystal Palace a couple of weeks ago, if it is going to happen for Frank Lampard's side, it is going to happen at Goodison Park.
Paul Merson - Sportskeeda - Everton 2-0 Leicester City
What version of Leicester are we going to get? This is the problem with the teams at the bottom - they're there for one reason only. You don't know what you're going to get with them. Leicester scored four goals against Wolves, but they weren't able to trouble Manchester City.
I think James Maddison can still make it to the World Cup. I would take him - one hundred percent. The other nations haven't played against him much and won't know much about him. He has an X-factor about him and deserves to be in the squad.
Everton are playing like you'd expect an Everton team to play - they're working hard, and they're closing teams down very well. They're decent at home and they were really good against Palace the other week. I'm backing Everton to win this game.
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