Rafa Benitez offers optimistic Everton January switch window replace & confirms Calvert-Lewin enhance

Everton vs Brighton

Everton are again in Premier League motion on Sunday the two^nd of January.

The Toffees are set to play host to Brighton in a 2 pm UK time kick-off.

Everton head into the sport on an terrible run of type which noticed them started gameweek 21 of the Premier League season down in 15^th place within the desk.

Granted, Everton do have at the least one recreation in hand on many of the sides above them, so they may nonetheless climb as much as round 13^th in the event that they win stated video games. Nevertheless, this could not take away from the truth that the Merseysiders want to significantly enhance their current type.

They’ll doubtless battle to take action this weekend, nevertheless, as Graham Potter’s Brighton are at the moment proving one of many tougher sides within the league to beat.

Solely the present prime three of Manchester Metropolis, Chelsea and Liverpool, have fallen to defeat on much less events within the Premier League than Brighton this time period.

Rafa Benitez on January & Calvert-Lewin

Forward of what’s anticipated to be a tricky check for Everton, Rafa Benitez spoke to the press on Friday.

When doing so, the Spaniard offered a Covid-19 replace on his squad:

“Have you learnt any household in England Covid-free? We’re getting higher. Clearly we’ve had points, gamers with issues are coming again and coaching. We can not give names, when it comes to Covid we’ve got much less issues.”

Rafa additionally spoke out on Everton’s makes an attempt to signal somebody in January:

“We’re working laborious. We’re looking for some targets to enhance the crew. All people is aware of how troublesome January is. All people is a little bit bit fearful about Covid, no-one desires to spend an excessive amount of cash. That’s difficult.”

He added on the identical topic:

“I’m fairly assured we are going to do two or three issues.”

Lastly, Benitez offered an replace on Dominic Calvert-Lewin, who seems to be on his means again from damage:

“Dominic is coaching with the crew. One factor is match health, which you’ll enhance enjoying video games. Match health, we are going to see. Perhaps he scores three targets within the first half and we don’t want to fret about his match health.”

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Premier League desk

#	Staff	MP	D	P
1	Manchester Metropolis	20	39	50
2	Chelsea FC	20	29	42
3	Liverpool FC	19	34	41
4	Arsenal FC	19	9	35
5	West Ham United	19	9	31
6	Tottenham Hotspur	17	2	30
7	Manchester United	17	2	28
8	Wolverhampton Wanderers	18	-1	25
9	Leicester Metropolis	18	-2	25
10	Brighton & Hove Albion	18	-1	24
11	Crystal Palace	19	0	23
12	Aston Villa	18	-4	22
13	Southampton FC	19	-9	21
14	Brentford FC	18	-4	20
15	Everton FC	17	-8	19
16	Leeds United	18	-18	16
17	Watford FC	17	-13	13
18	Burnley FC	15	-7	11
19	Newcastle United	19	-23	11
20	Norwich Metropolis	19	-34	10

Participant	Staff	Targets
Salah, Mohamed	Liverpool FC	15
Jota, Diogo	Liverpool FC	10
Vardy, Jamie	Leicester Metropolis	9
Dennis, Emmanuel	Watford FC	8
Ronaldo, Cristiano	Manchester United	8
Son, Heung Min	Tottenham Hotspur	8
Smith-Rowe, Emile	Arsenal FC	8
Raphinha	Leeds United	8
Mount, Mason	Chelsea FC	7
Antonio, Michail	West Ham United	7
Sterling, Raheem	Manchester Metropolis	7
Mane, Sadio	Liverpool FC	7
Silva, Bernardo	Manchester Metropolis	7
Maupay, Neal	Brighton & Hove Albion	7
Gallagher, Conor	Crystal Palace	6
Jorginho	Chelsea FC	6
Wilson, Callum	Newcastle United	6
Mahrez, Riyad	Manchester Metropolis	5
Saka, Bukayo	Arsenal FC	5
King, Joshua	Watford FC	5

Participant	Staff	Pink Playing cards	Yellow Playing cards
Salisu, Mohammed	Southampton FC	0	6
Dennis, Emmanuel	Watford FC	0	6
Laporte, Aymeric	Manchester Metropolis	1	5
Neves, Ruben	Wolverhampton Wanderers	0	6
Bissouma, Yves	Brighton & Hove Albion	0	6
James, Reece	Chelsea FC	1	4
Fernandes, Bruno	Manchester United	0	5
Pogba, Paul	Manchester United	1	4
Cancelo, Joao	Manchester Metropolis	0	5
Robertson, Andy	Liverpool FC	1	4
Canos, Sergi	Brentford FC	0	5
Richarlison	Everton FC	0	5
Rice, Declan	West Ham United	0	5
Ritchie, Matt	Newcastle United	0	5
Westwood, Ashley	Burnley FC	0	5
Tarkowski, James	Burnley FC	0	5
Manquillo, Javi	Newcastle United	0	5
Norgaard, Christian	Brentford FC	0	5
Mings, Tyrone	Aston Villa	0	5
Duffy, Shane	Brighton & Hove Albion	0	5

Participant	Staff	Assists
Salah, Mohamed	Liverpool FC	8
Alexander-Arnold, Trent	Liverpool FC	8
Bowen, Jarrod	West Ham United	7
Jesus, Gabriel	Manchester Metropolis	7
Pogba, Paul	Manchester United	7
Dennis, Emmanuel	Watford FC	5
Mount, Mason	Chelsea FC	5
James, Reece	Chelsea FC	5
Kovacic, Mateo	Chelsea FC	5
Cancelo, Joao	Manchester Metropolis	5
Robertson, Andy	Liverpool FC	5
Antonio, Michail	West Ham United	4
Mahrez, Riyad	Manchester Metropolis	4
Saka, Bukayo	Arsenal FC	4
Doucoure, Abdoulaye	Everton FC	4
Redmond, Nathan	Southampton FC	4
Ronaldo, Cristiano	Manchester United	3
Gallagher, Conor	Crystal Palace	3
King, Joshua	Watford FC	3
Fernandes, Bruno	Manchester United	3