Moyes restricted by injuries

Everton boss David Moyes will have little scope for changes to his side at Sunderland on Saturday due to the club’s on-going injury problems.

Moyes reports that Phil Neville, Sylvain Distin and Joseph Yobo are all close to comebacks after long-term problems, but not until the new year.

Jack Rodwell is out for a month with a hamstring injury, while there are no dates for comebacks for Mikel Arteta and Phil Jagielka.

Provisional squad: Howard, Hibbert, Neill, Heitinga, Baines, Pienaar, Osman, Cahill, Bilyaletdinov, Fellaini, Saha, Vaughan, Yakubu, Nash, Baxter, Coleman, Duffy, Agard.