Everton line-ups as Abdoulaye Doucoure and Dominic Calvert-Lewin decisions made for Wolves

Joe Thomas: Sean Dyche said the availability of Abdoulaye Doucoure for today’s trip to Wolves was a “judgement call”. If he’s fit, he starts for me - this is the last league game for more than a fortnight and recent results across the league make this match quite important.

The table looks far worse than it should for the reasons we all know about but Dyche knows he has to deal with the reality of the situation and that is that Everton could end the year in the relegation zone with a bad set of scores today. Now that Beto has shown he can provide cover for Calvert-Lewin, Doucoure is - with the exception of Pickford - Everton’s most important player.

The side works far better with him in it. It is also a side that picks itself if he is fit, with Calvert-Lewin moving back in up top and Patterson keeping his place on the right of defence. If Doucoure is unavailable, with Gueye also out, Gomes starts as he did against Man City.

My team (4-5-1) Pickford; Mykolenko, Branthwaite, Tarkowski, Patterson; McNeil, Onana, Gomes/Doucoure, Garner, Harrison; Calvert-Lewin

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Chris Beesley: “Super-fit” Abdoulaye Doucoure is “desperate to play” for Everton at Wolverhampton Wanderers claims Sean Dyche but while the Blues boss will make a late judgement call on his top scorer who also describes as “touch and go”, surely if he can start he should do at Molineux.

Andre Gomes has done well in midfield for Dyche in Everton’s last two matches after coming in from the cold following 19 months out of the first team picture and a loan spell at Lille but after back-to-back defeats and teams below them picking up points, the gap between the Blues and the drop zone has narrowed again and they could