Everton pair wary of Stoke City threat

And nobody is thriving more in his current role than Marko Arnautovic, who scored a brilliant goal to put the game beyond Man Utd, while not many players in the Premier League are better than him in making intelligent runs in behind defenses. For me though I am going to take both teams to score here in what should be one of the bets of the day. “He’s a fantastic asset to have in our team”.

Roberto Martinez believes Gareth Barry is among the Premier League’s greatest ever players.

Hughes told Stoke Player: “Xherdan will be okay and Geoff had a little bit of tightness, but we are hopeful that he will be okay in time for the game on Monday”. “We’ll see if that helps us but our focus is exclusively on recovering as well as we possibly can and being ready to go again on Monday which we will be”.

The 11th-placed Potters are level on 26 points with the Merseysiders, after they also arrested a run of two games without a win on Boxing Day when they beat Manchester United 2-0.

Were it not for Tom Cleverley’s first goal for the club with the last meaningful touch of the game, it would have been an immensely frustrating afternoon for Everton at Newcastle United. “It is becoming an opportunity to be really successful in this campaign“.

Everton in the meantime would take all three points with the final kick of the game against Newcastle, as the travelling Scousers saw Tom Cleverley smash home from range to hand them a late victory. Everton may have lost just one of their last 10 matches, but Stoke boss Mark Hughes feels his team will head to Merseyside full of confidence after claiming another big scalp against United.

Midfielder Stephen Ireland, striker Peter Crouch and defender Marc Muniesa are all out with hamstring problems.