Abdoulaye Doucoure\u2019s Renaissance: Why He Is Everton\u2019s Most Important Player<\/a><\/p>\nManager Sean Dyche\u2019s favoured formation is a 4-2-3-1 when in possession but will often switch to a 4-4-2 when defending. A system that has allowed the fifth fewest goals in the league but has been unable to produce going forward, only scoring 29 goals this term.<\/p>\n
Everton leads the league in long ball attempts, they will look to continue this trend and fire balls into the striker, be it Beto or DCL. This is often to the benefit of Doucoure, the Malian excelling this season in the second striker position. The long ball will look to circumvent one of United\u2019s best abilities, the team ranking fifth in tackles in their attacking third.<\/p>\n
Everton\u2019s Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n
Everton are without the services of Arnaut Danjuma, the Dutch winger recovering from an ankle injury he suffered against Fulham on January 30 but may be available for the following match. Gueye is doubtful to return to the squad but may feature from the bench.<\/p>\n
Everton Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n
GK: Jordan Pickford<\/p>\n
RB: Seamus Coleman<\/p>\n
CB: James Tarkowski<\/p>\n
CB: Jarrad Branthwaite<\/p>\n
LB: Vitaliy Mykolenko<\/p>\n
CM: James Garner<\/p>\n
CM: Amadou Onana<\/p>\n
CAM: Abdoulaye Doucoure<\/p>\n
LM: Dwight McNeil<\/p>\n
RM: Jack Harrison<\/p>\n
ST: Beto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Everton make the short trip to Old Trafford to face Manchester United, a venue that the Toffees have not won at in the Premier League in over ten years. They will aim to buck that trend against a side leading the race for a Europa League spot. Last Word on Football brings you our predicted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5033,"featured_media":635573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,1831],"tags":[31726],"class_list":["post-637110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-everton","category-starting-line-up","tag-everton-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}