Mikel Arteta is Everton’s only major doubt for the Carling Cup trip to Blackburn tomorrow night.

Frustrated Everton boss David Moyes has no additions to the squad that lost 3-2 at home to Blackburn last weekend.

Everton defender Nuno Valente has signed a contract extension to keep him at Goodison Park for a further 12 months.

With Mikel Arteta now recovering back home in Spain following a stomach operation, Everton may well be unchanged for Sunday’s final league game of the season against Newcastle at Goodison Park.

Midfielder Mikel Arteta is set to return to the starting line-up for Everton’s Barclays Premier League trip to the Emirates Stadium.

Everton boss David Moyes has admitted there is only a slim chance midfielders Mikel Arteta and Leon Osman will be fit to face Chelsea at Goodison Park tomorrow.

Mikel Arteta is a major doubt for Everton’s difficult trip to relegation-haunted Birmingham while Leon Osman has picked up a hip injury in training and is also a concern.

HAVE Everton run out of steam as the race for the fourth and final Champions League spot enters the finishing straight?

Everton are expected to have striker Andrew Johnson available for Sunday’s home Barclays Premier League game with Derby.

Andrew Johnson is the main doubt ahead of Everton’s trip to Anfield for the Merseyside derby on Sunday.

Andrew Johnson is almost certainly out of Everton’s Barclays Premier League clash with West Ham with the groin injury which forced him off at Fulham last weekend.

WHERE would Fulham be had Brian McBride not missed six months of the season through injury? Or more importantly, where would their hopes of survival be without him back in their ranks right now?

Everton flew to Italy today for their UEFA Cup showdown against Fiorentina without any further injury worries.

Everton are likely to be without Spanish playmaker Mikel Arteta for Sunday’s Premier League match against Portsmouth.

Joseph Yobo will return to Everton’s squad for the Monday clash with Manchester City at Eastlands having been left out of the UEFA Cup triumph over Brann Bergen.

Everton boss David Moyes has virtually a fully-fit squad for only the second time this season as he prepares for the UEFA Cup last-32 second leg against Norwegian champions Brann Bergen at Goodison Park tomorrow.

Everton boss David Moyes has recalled Ayegbeni Yakubu to his squad for the UEFA Cup tie away to Brann after his fine and banishment from the side that beat Reading on Saturday.

MORTEN Gamst Pedersen couldn’t help himself. Why shouldn’t he have a go at Alan Wiley? Everyone else seemed to be rounding on the referee.

ROBBIE KEANE wasted a golden opportunity to extend his impressive goalscoring burst at Goodison Park last night, but the Republic of Ireland striker will not have been too downhearted as he helped Tottenham to a heard-earned point against a team which increasingly looks as though it could be competing in the Champions League next season.

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Everton have only the long-term injury to Leighton Baines to contend with ahead of their home clash with Tottenham tomorrow.

TITUS BRAMBLE added another horrific defensive error to his lengthy CV as Everton clinically ground out a third straight Premiership win to add even more weight to David Moyes’ claims that his team can last the course in the race for fourth place.

Striker Andrew Johnson is set to return to Everton’s squad for Sunday’s Barclays Premier League match against Wigan having recovered from the knock he received in training which forced him to miss last week’s victory over Manchester City.

Everton will welcome back key midfielder Mikel Arteta from suspension for tomorrow’s Premier League clash against Manchester City.

Manuel Fernandes will undergo his Everton medical today and is therefore highly unlikely to be involved in the Barclays Premier League home clash with Manchester City tomorrow.

Everton will have all their big guns back for tomorrow’s Carling Cup semi-final first leg at Chelsea.

Tim Cahill has handed Everton a fitness boost ahead of tomorrow’s FA Cup third round tie with Oldham.

GARETH SOUTHGATE really ought to have known better. After his programme notes provided chapter and verse on how Middlesbrough’s home form will be the key to their Premier League survival, the manager watched his anaemic side comprehensively dismantled by an Everton team with far more lofty ambitions.

Mikel Arteta starts his three-match ban tomorrow as Everton play at Middlesbrough for being sent off on Saturday against Arsenal.

Everton manager David Moyes will make a late decision on Phil Neville’s fitness for the Premier League visit of Arsenal tomorrow.

Everton are hopeful that midfielder Mikel Arteta will have recovered from a bout of sickness in time to face Bolton at Goodison Park on St Stephen's Day.

Everton manager David Moyes looks certain to reshuffle his side for the Barclays Premier League match against Manchester United on Sunday at Old Trafford.

Everton manager David Moyes left five senior players at home as his side prepared to face AZ Alkmaar in the UEFA Cup in Holland.

Forwards James McFadden and James Vaughan, who both missed Everton’s 2-1 Carling Cup victory over West Ham on Wednesday through injury, are back in contention for tomorrow’s return to Upton Park for their Barclays Premier League meeting.

Everton are fighting to get defender Joseph Yobo fit for the home game with Fulham.

Portsmouth 0 Everton 0

Veteran Everton defender Alan Stubbs is expected to be out of action for a month after a scan on a training-ground injury revealed a calf problem.

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Midfielder Mikel Arteta is hoping to have recovered sufficiently from a groin injury to be involved for Everton against Sunderland.

CHELSEA have been struck with an uncomfortable dose of deja-vu.

Everton manager David Moyes has a long list of injury problems ahead of Sunday’s trip to Chelsea following the Toffees’ excellent UEFA Cup success in Nurnberg yesterday.

Everton have James Vaughan and Thomas Gravesen challenging for places to face Birmingham at Goodison Park tomorrow.

Everton are likely to again be without full-back Leighton Baines for tomorrow’s Barclays Premier League clash with Birmingham at Goodison Park.

Everton are without Leighton Baines for their Carling Cup clash at Luton after the England under-21 full-back was forced off against Derby with an ankle injury.