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Everton v West Ham Match Preview and Tips

We’re back to Premier League action this weekend as the International scene now takes a welcome four month break, with the next Euro 2016 qualifiers resuming in late March 2015.

Every managers fear is to lose players to injury while away on International duty, and Everton’s Roberto Martinez will now be without the ever reliable left-back, Leighton Baines (9 assists from 15 games this season), and possibly his Captain, Phil Jagielka, who picked up a knock in the game with Slovenia.

Everton’s midfield powerhouse, James McCarthy, is a serious doubt for The Toffee’s home game against West Ham on Saturday, meaning Martinez will now be without his trusted partnership of Gareth Barry and McCarthy in the centre of the park. Darren Gibson and Mohammed Besic will now deputise in midfield while the youngster, Luke Garbutt, may have to fill in for Baines due to the continued recovery of Bryan Oviedo.

Sam Allardyce’s high-flying West Ham are the third highest goalscorers on their travels this season behind Chelsea and Manchester City, winning two and drawing two of their five matches.

The Hammers’ two previous trips to Goodison have ended in defeat but there is a new attacking purpose and vibrancy to their play in 2014/15, with Sakho (6 goals from 7 starting appearances and 3.4 shots on target per game) and Valencia (3 goals and 2 assists from 8 starts and also an impressively low 1.1 instances of bad control on average per game) providing pace and energy up front and the resurgent Stewart Downing (2 goals and 4 assists from 11 PL matches, with 3.1 key passes per game) pulling the strings creatively from the tip of the diamond formation.

With Everton’s depleted first team, they’ll be relying on the goal threat of full-back Seamus Coleman and possibly the trickery and power of England star, Ross Barkley.

Steven Naismith and Samuel Eto’o have looked more lively up front for Everton than the £28m Romelu Lukaku (2.6 Unskilled Touches per game on average), who has still yet to get his form (and his general close control of the ball) going so far in this campaign.

West Ham have no serious injury concerns going into this fixture and I think they are an excellent price for a Double Chance bet at 2.15 Euro odds or 23/20 UK.

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