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TEAM NEWS
Tottenham are optimistic that Harry Kane and Jan Vertonghen will both be available despite suffering minor problems against Stoke.
Toby Alderweireld, who injured his groin last weekend, faces a late fitness test, but Danny Rose and Erik Lamela are still ruled out.
Everton could name the same team which began their last two games.
Long-term absentee Muhamed Besic is back in training but is not yet ready for first-team action.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin could be in contention after two months out with an ankle injury.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
Everton are winless in eight games against Tottenham since December 2012, although the last three encounters have ended in draws (D5, L3).
The most recent 10 meetings have all ended either in a draw or a one-goal margin of victory.
Tottenham beat Everton 2-0 in January 2012, but that is the only time in the last 10 years that a Premier League game between these sides has featured a winning margin of two goals or more.
Tottenham Hotspur
Spurs have won their last eight top-flight games at White Hart Lane and are the only side yet to lose a Premier League home match this season (W11, D2).
Tottenham could win nine consecutive home games in the Premier League for the first time.
They last managed nine top-flight home victories in a row within the same season at the end of the 1986-87 campaign.
It is 14 months and 21 games since Spurs last failed to score in a Premier League home game – in a 1-0 defeat by Leicester on 13 January 2016.
Harry Kane has scored 12 goals in 11 league and cup games in 2017, including three hat-tricks.
Everton
The Toffees are unbeaten in nine league games (W6, D3) – their best run since a 10-match streak between October and December 2013.
An Everton win would give them 47 points – equalling their final points tally in both the previous two seasons.
Romelu Lukaku has scored the opening goal in seven Premier League games this season – more than any other player prior to the latest round of matches.
Lukaku has 60 Premier League goals for Everton, and needs one more to become the club’s record scorer in the division.
He has 17 league goals this season and is one short of equalling his career-best total of 18, set last year.
SAM’s verdict
