Everton line-ups for Chelsea as Andre Gomes benched and midfield revamped

Joe Thomas - Onana, Harrison and Gueye all to return

Everton have to go into tonight believing a good result is possible. Chelsea are full of individual talent but remain lesser than the sum of their parts and failed to beat Sheffield United last time out at Stamford Bridge.

Sean Dyche and Co, who earned a draw at Chelsea last season, must take encouragement from that. Mauricio Pochettino's men do have the ability to punish teams so while I want Everton to be assertive and aggressive tonight, I don’t want them to be naive. They don’t have the firepower to blow teams away and the best tactic might be to be stubborn, frustrate the hosts and take advantage as the patience wanes.

More than anything, I would like to see the players who are most likely to cause problems on the pitch from the start. That means the return of Amadou Onana and Jack Harrison and the continuation of Dominic Calvert-Lewin in the starting line-up. Harrison has struggled recently but has the guile to cause problems and, with Seamus Coleman offering a safe pair of hands behind him, starting Ashley Young would be too defensive for me. I think Onana has the ability to be a difference in defence and attack and while tactics limit his ability to control a game, I think the Blues need someone in the middle who will disrupt Chelsea’s expensively assembled midfield.

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Calvert-Lewin has two in two and, while both came in intriguing circumstances, he is the player in the squad who I would want the big chance to fall too.

Idrissa Gueye also comes in for me - meaning James Garner and