Vitalii Mykolenko has not recovered in time to make the Everton squad for the crucial game with Bournemouth.
His absence, through a thigh injury that has kept him out for several weeks, means Sean Dyche does not have a fit recognised first team full back available. It means he will have to diverge from his favoured 4-5-1 formation and his solution appears to be to deploy wing-backs.
Demarai Gray does make it into the starting XI with Dominic Calvert-Lewin’s absence having been confirmed earlier in the week. Calvert-Lewin, Seamus Coleman, Nathan Patterson and Ruben Vinagre are all unavailable through injury, as is homegrown midfielder Tom Davies. Davies is out of contract in the summer and may, therefore, have played his final game for the club.
