Fabian Delph has been forced to miss training with a muscle strain as Everton’s injury problems are added to.
Delph is hopeful of returning to training next week but there is, at this stage, a question mark over his availability for the game with Liverpool a week on Sunday.
News of Delph’s issue comes just a day after it emerged that Theo Walcott will be out for four weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery.
Andre Gomes has been forced to sit out training as he recovers from a minor problem and though he remains positive about being fit for the visit of Liverpool, it remains too soon to know if he’ll be passed fit.
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Defender Yerry Mina will also miss the game after suffering a partial tear of his left thigh muscle but he has set is eyes on a return to training by the end of the month.
Hopes that Jean-Philippe Gbamin would feature in the restart were ended when he damaged his Achilles in the second week of the players’ return to training after the lockdown.
