Everton manager Roberto Martinez made a significant tactical change at half-time by bringing on hold on Chelsea striker Romelu Lukaku in the match against West Ham. The Belgian international made a significant contribution as he created one and scored the other, as Everton managed a 3-2 win.

This is the second consecutive win for Everton after they won 1-0 against Chelsea last weekend. Lukaku, though, appeared to have suffered an injury in the process of scoring his goal. Martinez has now confirmed that the injury is nothing serious and that the player will be available for the forthcoming matches.

Everton are undefeated in the season after drawing the first three matches and winning the last two. This has propelled him into the fifth position after having taken 9 points. They will be playing against Premier league opposition Fulham in the League cup. After missing out on a starting spot against West Ham, Lukaku has sufficiently impressed to the manager to earn himself a starting place in this match. It is also highly likely that the 20-year-old will play against Newcastle on Monday. Leighton Baines scored the two goals for Everton with stunning freekicks, which once again demonstrated his importance in the team.

Baines was subjected to transfer interest from Manchester United.

“Romelu is fine. He was in yesterday and the reaction has been great. Our medical department are very, very happy with him and they have no concerns over Romelu. He wants to play tomorrow. He made an immediate impact on Saturday and when you start a new chapter at a football team, scoring is one of those good feelings. He wants to carry on in the same frame of mind,” said the Blues boss. Martinez, though, will be without midfielder Leon Osman for the League cup match against Fulham.

Everton are with the fear that two of their main players – Leighton Baines and Marouane Fellaini – maybe prized away by other clubs before the end of the transfer window. Both players have been subjected to threats from clubs like Manchester United and Chelsea in the last few months.

United were the first club to make an official approach for Baines a few weeks ago. They made a £ 12 million offer for the 28-year-old England international, which was rejected by Everton immediately. It was hoped that United will be successful with the bid if they offered £ 18 million for the player.

However, Everton manager Roberto Martinez has confirmed that the club is yet to receive any improved offer from United for the left back. He has also said that Belgian star Marouane Fellaini has also not been subjected to any bids in the last few weeks as well. Martinez will be hoping to strengthen the squad before the end of the transfer window partly in the knowledge that he could lose both these players in the final few days. This would be catastrophic for the club, which has one of the thinnest squads in the Premier league.

Martinez, though, has said that he wants his star players to remain at the club.

“I know that’s not what you might want to hear, but everyone here is focused on fighting for spots in the starting line-up and the competitive level in this group is impressive. The last concern I have is what other clubs do. I can say I have been really impressed with the togetherness of this group. I can see that in training every day and it makes me proud. We are in a great position financially and we want to start the season with the best squad we can,” said Martinez.

Everton manager David Moyes, who was recently revealed as the next Manchester United manager, has said that he wants to sign off in style by getting Everton to their highest ever points total in the Premier league.

Everton will be taking on Chelsea in the final game of the season. The best ever points tally achieved by Everton was back in 2007-08 when they managed 65 points. They can overtake that achievement by a single point with a win over Chelsea. Despite the announcement that he would leave the club, Everton managed to put a good show against West Ham last weekend.

They will be coming on the back of the moral boasting 2-0 win over West Ham, but their away from has been extremely poor. The last away victory for the club was back in the month of January. Moyes was given a huge sent off by the Everton fans in their last home match. He is hoping to reward their appreciation by helping the club stay close to the likes of Tottenham and Arsenal. For long periods of the season, Everton were in with a shout of finishing in the top four. However, they have left themselves with too much to do towards the end of the season.

“We want to try to get a record points total if we can. We finished the game off very well last week. That has put us in a league position where we can’t go any further up or any further down. In the year we qualified for the Champions League (2005), the points we have (this season) would have been enough to get us there. But we don’t even make Europa League football this year, which is really tough on us. It was something we really wanted to drive for, to get back to European football,” said Moyes.

The Everton defender Leighton Baines has been one of the best left backs in the world according to the manager David Moyes. The 28-year-old has been in stunning form for both club and country, which has even led to the talk of him replacing Ashley Cole as the main defender for the England national team.

He has been linked with several clubs like Manchester United over the years, while Everton have been holding out for a fee in the region of £ 20 million. The defender was once again at this imperious best in the match against West Brom during the midweek action.

Baines scored both goals for Everton in the 2-1 win over Steve Clarke’s men to help sustain a challenge for the top four positions by Everton. The last time Everton finished in the top four was in 2005. Since then, they have not been at the best in the first half of the season and it has subsequently resulted in them finishing closer to the mid-table positions.

This season, though, they have come out of the blocks faster than expected and, as a result, they are just a few places below the top four. Moyes is looking to bring in a striker from Spain during the January transfer window in order to strengthen the squad and push for a top four finish.

“He is not our player. The boy is a very good player but on this occasion we could not conclude the deal. There are lot of things connected with signing a player. All those things play a part. All those things combined,” said the Everton manager regarding speculation that they will be signing the 27-year-old Spanish international Alvaro Negredo. Everton recently pulled out of a deal to sign the Dutch striker Fer. The club had agreed an £ 8.5 million fee.

The Everton manager David Moyes has revealed that he will not be making any buys on a permanent basis in the January transfer window because he does not have enough money. Hence, he will have to rely on loan deals in order to strengthen his squad.

David Moyes has always been content with the fact that he does not have a lot of money to spend. This situation has worsened recent years with the club has had a lot of financial difficulties, which have even restricted the ability to bring in replacements for players like Jack Rodwell who have left in the summer.
Everton are currently chasing for fourth spot in the Premier league, which will provide them with the opportunity to play in the Champions League next season.

The club has finished in fourth position only once in the last seven years. Hence, Moyes is extremely keen on grabbing this opportunity with both hands. Finishing in the Champions League group stages will be extremely beneficial for a club like Everton because of the revenues of a close to £ 30 million. Yet, for this season, the manager will not have any money to spend and will rely almost exclusively on loan deals.

“The chief executive has said there is a very small amount available. Maybe a couple of loans, if we could come up with them. Everton could be a platform for us — a difficult one but no more difficult than Manchester United last year (when Newcastle won 3-0). I feel that we can beat them. If you take November and December out, it was a great year. Unfortunately you can’t, so next year we have to put 12 good months together,” said the Everton manager. Moyes recently saw his team managed a 2-1 win over Newcastle, as they returned to winning ways.

The Everton manager David Moyes has expressed his displeasure at the way the referee Michael Oliver turned down a number of good shouts for a penalty in the recent 1-1 draw with Arsenal.

Everton were playing against Arsenal in a fixture that has been extremely tough for them in recent years. However, they managed to get a credible draw from the match after a late goal from Marouane Fellaini equalised the match after Arsenal had taken the lead through Theo Walcott early in the match. Despite this point from a difficult fixture, Moyes was extremely unhappy with the performance of the referee.

Everton could have been easily given a second-half penalty after the midfielder Steven Pienaar was found by the former Everton midfielder Mikel Arteta in the box. However, the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger decided to disagree because he felt that it was not a penalty. Theo Walcott managed to open the lead for Arsenal after just 52 seconds. However, Arsenal were unable to hold on to the lead much longer after Marouane Fellaini, who scored his fifth goal of the season, scored with a great shot after just 28 min. The draw leaves Everton just one point above Arsenal in the table.

“We should have had a penalty. The players had to earn everything because we weren’t getting a jot. I thought we played really well against a good Arsenal team and a lot of games are decided by decisions referees make or don’t make. We got nothing tonight. I wasn’t going to play Jelavic yesterday but he said he felt better and could play. I thought he was much better in this game as well. I was a lot happier with him,” said Moyes. Everton will face the Premier league champions Manchester City at the Etihad stadium this weekend.

The Barclays Premier League match between Everton and West Ham is scheduled for the 22nd December at West Ham’s stadium.

Currently Everton are enjoying a reasonably successful season and are sitting just below fourth in the Premier League and looking to cement a place in the Champions League. This will be no easy ride though with the race looking to be as exciting as the title race itself – at time of writing Arsenal, Everton and WBA are all on 27 points just behind Tottenham in 4th, equal on Chelsea with 29.

Looking at the kinds of betting odds that are being offered by the bookmakers, a win for West Ham is priced around 11/4, while an Everton win is priced at 11/8 with a draw at 19/4; so a bet on either club could be worthwhile.

Delving back into previous matches between the two sides is quite revealing. In the 2010/2011 season both of their Premier League matches resulted in draws and in the 2009/2010 season, at Everton the game was drawn 2-2 and at West Ham the game was won by Everton 2-1.

In all the games that they have ever played at West Ham (63 in total) 40% were won by the home club, 36% by Everton, and 24% were drawn. However such long term statistical data is about as meaningless as using past roulette numbers to predict future spins at an online casino (have a look here River Belle’s new football themed games and many sports themed games reviews on the best Canadian casino game – a safe place to be hedging your bets if the super tight race for fourth is not where you feel comfortable investing your money.

Any football match result is to some extent influenced by the fans, and one of the more influential bunches of fans are the Everton ones. If you think that this will have a significant effect on the result of the oncoming match, then a bet on Everton could be a winning one.

The Everton manager David Moyes has said that he will be extremely pleased with Everton finished in the top four at the end of the season, but has said that it will be extremely difficult with the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham competing for the same positions.

Everton finished in the top four once in the last decade. The 2005-06 season so Everton finish in this position, but they could not make the most out of it by qualifying for the group stages of the Champions league. Instead, they were knocked out in the play-off round itself.

Since then, the Everton manager has seen the likes of Manchester city and Tottenham gain a strong foothold in the race to finish in the fourth position due to the investment from new owners. Everton have struggled against this competition and have consequently been relegated to the Europa league hold the last few seasons. However, the club are once again back challenging for a spot near the Champions league this time around after they have made a great start to the season. So far, they have already secured 14 points from seven matches played so far, which has put them in the fourth position ahead of both Tottenham and Arsenal.

“With the quality of the Premier League it is really hard to qualify for the Champions League but I wouldn’t say we can’t do it. It is possible and you have to aim for that. If we fall short and end up in the Europa League then so be it, but in recent years we have been pretty close, finishing sixth, seventh or eighth, so we want to do that at the very least,” said the Everton manager David Moyes after winning the Premier league manager of the month award for a spectacular four weeks.

The Everton manager David Moyes was full of praise for the Everton defender Leighton Baines, who scored the penalty in the 2-2 draw with Wigan during the weekend. Everton were going into the final few minutes of the match starring at another defeat in the season.

David Moyes and his team certainly started the new season in great fashion, but the defeats against West Brom have taken the shine off things slightly. It would have been yet another poor result if they have lost to Wigan, who are struggling down at the bottom of the table. However, a penalty scored comprehensively by the defender Leighton Baines in the final few minutes of the match helped them get a point from this match.

The Everton manager reckons that the England international Leighton Baines is currently one of the best left back in the world. However, it is extremely difficult for him to get the recognition that he deserves. The 28-year-old Leighton Baines is undoubtedly one of the best players at Everton. He was recently linked with a £ 20 million move to Manchester United over the summer. However, Everton raised the transfer money rather by selling the 21-year-old midfielder Jack Rodwell instead of Leighton Baines.

“Leighton has been a big asset for us for a long time and we are hoping to have the same [impact] down the right and in other areas as well. We had it with Jelavic getting forward and getting us another goal. Leighton was extraordinary for us. At times he was unstoppable – he was that good. I think we were disappointed we were trailing and it was a great effort to stick at it and get a hard-earned point,” said David Moyes after the match. Everton will be facing QPR next weekend before taking on Liverpool.

Everton manager David Moyes is likely to increase his efforts to sign the Inter Milan player Luc Castaignos after he has secured new transfer funds following the exit of defender Joseph Yobo.

The Nigerian international has been part of the Everton setup in the last few seasons and will be a major miss after he recently completed his move to Turkish club Fenerbache. The two clubs have agreed an undisclosed fee for the defender, who has not been getting regular first team action in the last couple of seasons. Prior to the arrival of players like Distin, Joseph Yobo was a regular for the bulk of Everton fixtures.

Due to the fact that Everton struggled to score goals last season, it is understood that the manager has made it a priority to sign a young and fresh talent before the end of the transfer window. With only a few weeks of the transfer window remaining, Everton have been linked with the Inter Milan striker Luc Castaignos. The 19-year-old has drawn attention from some of the biggest clubs in the world, but it is thought that he will be favouring a move to Everton in order to get regular first-team football.

“I would love to thank Everton and the management of Fenerbahce for reaching a deal. My family have settled well in Turkey and enjoy the life there, so I’m glad they will be re-uniting with friends here. The permanent switch is done and I am also switching to help the team do well on the pitch. It’s been a long journey into achieving this dream and now is the time to pay the club and fans back with a great performance,” said the former Everton defender Joseph Yobo after announcing his departure from the club. Everton will be facing Manchester United on the opening day of the season.