Everton has been given a double injury strap with Dominic Calvert-Lewin who sidelined for a few weeks and midfielder Orel Mangala excluded for the rest of the season.
Calvert-Lewin sustained a hamstring injury in Saturday's victory on Brighton, while Mangala injured his front cruciate ligament (ACL) in the same fixture.
The setback of Calvert-Lewin comes in a difficult time, because Everton also has fellow attackers Youssef Chermiti and Armando Broja from the injured.
On-Loan Chelsea Forward Broja will be out for a few months, but will stay in the Toffees and does not return to his parent club. Chermiti is an absence in the long term with a thighing problem.
It only leaves Beto as their only recognized Center-Forward. Everton also has important creative player Dwight McNeil recovering from a knee injury, while Tim IroEbbunam is on the way back from a foot problem.
Calvert-Lewin confronted with a sad as a predictable end of Everton career
Sky Sports' Ben Grounds:
“The focus will inevitably be on the urgency for Everton to sign a striker in the last few days of the transfer window. In last Saturday's 1-0 win over Brighton, the Toffees gathered a expected goals in total only 0, 85, with 0.78 of them with 0.78 of them, thanks to the punishment of Iliman Ndiaye.
“The career of Dominic Calvert-Lewin in Goodison Park can be very well over as a result of his last injury.
“At the end of the season and his record in the treatment room, in combination with his modest goals that return, all parties places the contract of the striker and its record in a difficult position in which the 27-year-old his association extends at Bramley-Moore Dock.
“The reality is that the absence of Orel Mangala will be felt just as much in the coming months. The Belgian international had to be patient to become a normal starter under Sean Dyche, but the flowering relationship that is formed next to Idrissa Gueye is certain Not unnoticed by supporters.
“The key to the back-to-back victories to ignite the second spell of David Moyes is the understanding of the couple third in the middle and the loss of Mangala means the return of an earlier problem in the campaign where Gueye might be exposed.
“James Garner now has to hit the ground after his own spell on the sidelines, while Tim IroEbbunam – who showed a lot of promise but also understandable inexperience when they have been entrusted in the position – must show that he has grown in shape by looking at Mangalas composed Displays.
“Given his interest, it would be surprising if Everton would not want to look to make that loan agreement in the summer a permanent signature of Lyon, but for now he has a vital loan space that could offer the key to late transactions in this window.
“With Broja who apparently stays in the club, it seems even the most likely route that Everton has to attack the market without being committed to a player in the long term.
“For Calvert-Lewin the news comes as a huge blow. It was a summer day in August 2021 when he walked ahead and the penalty sent that Everton's first victory at the Amex Stadium.
“However, he did not know much that he would increase an injury that would influence his target score for the next three years of his career.
“The striker had scored that season in all three, but the quad injury that was picked up during the second half meant that he scored only two goals in a campaign with injuries that almost ended in the relegation.
“Calvert-Lewin scored 29 goals under Carlo Ancelotti, but since then it has not been able to replicate the same bravery among three managers.
“Last weekend he came brilliantly from the goal against Tottenham under Moyes and seemed to respond positively to the bullish instruction of his new manager to take responsibility.
“It ended a point of 16 Premier League matches without a goal, while he also had six shots against Spurs, as much as he had combined in his previous six league matches.
“But returning to the place where some Evertonians remember on the day his struggles of the past three and a half years started, it was a sad as a predictable face for this reporter to build on his comeback, an innocent Air challenge could possibly lead to his last act in an Everton shirt “
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