Hello and welcome to Eurosport's live text coverage of Everton's trip to St James' Park to visit Newcastle United. Follow every goal, kick, thrill and spill right here with minute-by-minute insight and commentary.

All eyes are on Everton's number nine - can he overtake Heung-Min Son in the top goalscorer charts by notching a couple today? The hotshot has seven goals to his name this term, and could well fancy his chances today, and will surely be raring to go after drawing a blank at St Mary's last time out.

Jonjo Shelvey could well be a big miss for the home side here, and his vision and deep-lying creativity seems to have been replaced by workaholics Sean Longstaff and Jeff Hendrick; so the onus again will be on Almiron and Saint-Maximin to provde the spark.

A big talking point here, though, will be the inclusion of Robin Olsen for his full Everton debut - in place of the under-fire Jordan Pickford, wjho drops to the bench as a result of his poor start to the campaign.

If Carlo Ancelotti were to mastermind a win today, Everton would leapfrog their city rivals Liverpool and reassert themselves as league leaders, if only on goal difference, whilst if Newcastle won, they could climb as high as 10th, realistically, but if they were to rack up a cricket score, then they could well replace Manchester City in 9th.

How will the Toffees fare without two of their talismanic front three - Richarlison and James Rodriguez are both sidelined, the Brazilian is suspended again and the Colombian injured, with perhaps Andre Gomes and Gylfi Sigurdsson operating a bit further forward as roaming 10's behind Dominic Calvert-Lewin. We shall wait and see.

It'll certainly be an interesting tactical prospect here - will Steve Bruce throw men behind the ball again and try and grind out a result on the break with the pace of Saint-Maximin, Almiron and Wilson? Or will the inclusion of Jacob Murphy on the right add more guile and attacking impetus to the Magpies?

Everton are in their 4-3-2-1: Olsen, Kenny, Mina, Keane, Nkounkou, Doucoure, Allan, Delph, Gomes, Sigurdsson, Calvert-Lewin.

The teams are in, and the hosts are looking like this: Darlow, Murphy, Schar, Lascelles, Fernandez, Lewis. Longstaff, Hendrick, Almiron, Wilson, Saint-Maximin.