Everton have a mammoth task to get something from this game but they cannot afford to accept defeat before a ball has even been kicked.
They can’t be naive but they need to offer some threat - we have seen some teams causing City problems this season when they have been brave enough to try and test them. There is an argument to go five at the back but I would stick with four, keeping to Lampard ’s preferred style and bringing Conor Coady in for Yerry Mina.
Where I would change things is that I would have both Amadou Onana and Idrissa Gueye sitting deeper and protecting the back four. I was pleased to see Onana deeper last week and would play Gueye less advanced than he was against Wolves and alongside him.
