Everton will be missing several key players for Saturday’s match against Leicester City, but Sean Dyche is optimistic Dominic Calvert-Lewin, James Tarkowski and Vitalii Mykolenko will return after missing from Tuesday’s Carabao Cup penalty shootout defeat to Southampton.
Speaking in his pre-match press conference, Dyche said: “Jarrad is making progress and hopefully gets involved in a game with the Under-21s this weekend – it’s looking likely he is. Nathan Patterson is the same.
“James Tarkowski – we’re hopeful. He trained today and we’ll see if there’s no reaction.
“Dominic Calvert-Lewin looks okay today. He was back in on the grass so we’re hopeful his illness is gone. Jimmy Garner is still not in with illness. Myko is here and he’s through the illness, so we’re hopeful that’s him done [with it].
“Idrissa, unfortunately, has had a family bereavement so he won’t be here.
“Seamus is still injured and, unfortunately, is going to be longer than we hoped. That’s not going to be a quick situation but we’re not sure on the timescales yet.
“Youssef [Chermiti] is making good progress but is obviously quite a longer-term injury and Armando [Broja] is the same.
“Keano is getting checked out today, just getting checked out and having a precautionary scan to make sure he is okay.”