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Monday December 18

Everton v Swansea

• Kick-off time & date: Monday December 18, 2000 GMT
• Venue: Goodison Park
• TV coverage: Sky Sports
• Sky Bet odds: Everton 8/11, Draw 5/2, Swansea 17/4

Team news

Yannick Bolasie could make his return to Everton's matchday squad for Monday's Premier League clash with Swansea at Goodison Park.

The winger has been out of action for just over a year due to a knee injury, but boss Sam Allardyce indicated at his pre-match press conference that he could be involved against the Swans after appearing for the under-23s this week.

James McCarthy (hamstring) and Leighton Baines (calf) remain unavailable, along with the likes of Ross Barkley (hamstring), Ramiro Funes Mori (knee) and Seamus Coleman (broken leg).

Swansea striker Wilfried Bony will be fit for Monday night. Bony came off in the closing stages of Wednesday's 4-0 home defeat to Manchester City after feeling some muscle tightness.

But he has shown no after-effects of that since the City game and, with Wayne Routledge fit again, Swansea are at full-strength apart from the continued absence of Kyle Bartley (knee ligaments).

Everton (from): Pickford, Kenny, Williams, Holgate, Martina, Gueye, Schneiderlin, Lennon, Rooney, Sigurdsson, Calvert-Lewin, Robles, Jagielka, Keane, Baningime, Besic, Vlasic, Mirallas, Bolasie, Klaassen, Davies, Niasse, Sandro, Lookman.

Swansea (from): Fabianski, Naughton, Fernandez, Van der Hoorn, Mawson, Olsson, Mesa, Ki, Carroll, Dyer, Ayew, Bony, Abraham, Nordfeldt, Rangel, Clucas, Britton, Sanches, Fer, Narsingh, Fulton, Routledge, McBurnie.

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• Everton won five of their first six Premier League meetings with Swansea (D1), but have since failed to win any of their six matches against them (D4 L2).
• Swansea City have won once in 14 previous visits to Goodison Park in all competitions (D6 L7), a 2-1 win in January 2016.
• The day of this game will be the 52nd day that Swansea City have spent as the bottom club in the Premier League table and 37 of those days have been since the start of last season (71%).
• Everton have collected 10 points in their last four Premier League games – one more than they managed in their previous 12 combined (9).
• Swansea City have attempted just 33 shots on target in their 17 Premier League games this season; 13 fewer than any other side in the competition.
• Paul Clement averaged 1.53 points per game in the Premier League last season as Swansea manager (29 points in 19 games) – this season, that average is less than half (0.71 per game).
• Swansea have lost 18 Premier League away games since the start of last season; more than any other club.
• Swansea City have scored the same number of Premier League goals this season as Wayne Rooney on his own (9).
• Wayne Rooney has scored five Premier League goals in eight games at Goodison Park this season; the same tally he scored in 27 home games for Manchester United in 2016-17 and 2015-16 combined.
• Wayne Rooney has had a hand in seven goals in his last seven Premier League appearances against Swansea City (three goals, four assists).

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