Leicester City face their biggest game of the season so far as they welcome Everton to the King Power on Saturday.
Steve Cooper is yet to secure his first Premier League win as Leicester City manager and he knows that has to change at home to Everton this weekend.
Leicester have two points from their four league matches, drawing with Tottenham Hotspur and Crystal Palace, but Everton are bottom of the table with zero points.
Cooper needs to kick-start Leicester’s season with a win in front of the Foxes’ faithful and will know anything else could see the club’s support start to turn despite it still being so early in the season.
There Leicester boss has some big decisions to make in terms of the starting XI but should be fortunate enough to have almost a full squad to choose from.
Leicester City without Patson Daka against Everton
Patson Daka is yet to feature this season after picking up an ankle injury in the final game of pre-season against RC Lens.
That injury required surgery and the Zambian striker is expected to be out for a while yet, but Leicester should be boosted by Odsonne Edouard being in the squad for the first time since the centre-forward’s Deadline Day arrival.
Edouard arrived on loan from Crystal Palace too late on the final day of the transfer window to play against Aston Villa and could not face his parent club as Leicester squandered a 2-0 lead to draw 2-2 with Palace last weekend.
The only other absentee Cooper has is fourth choice goalkeeper Jakub Stolarczyk who would not have made the squad regardless.
Everton injury round-up ahead of Leicester
Sean Dyche has far more to worry about on the injury front as his Everton side’s woes continue.
The good news for the Toffees is that they should see the trio of Dominic Calvert-Lewin, James Garner and Vitalii Mykolenko return from the illness that kept them out of their midweek Carabao Cup exit against Southampton.
James Tarkowski also missed the Southampton game due to an ongoing back issue but will likely play through the pain in such a crucial match, but Jarrad Braithwaite will miss out after groin surgery in the summer.
Everton have problems at right-back, with Nathan Paterson and Seamus Coleman both major doubts so it could be that 39-year-old Ashley Young starts which should have Stephy Mavididi licking his lips.
It is unclear whether Idrissa Gueye will be involved after a personal issue saw him miss the Southampton game, but Armando Broja and Youssef Chermiti are both definitely out of this one.