Summary

  • Everton will move above Man Utd into sixth with a win

  • Hull City one point from safety with 10 to play

  • Everton's Mirallas in Belgium for birth of child

Live Reporting

Neil Johnston

  1. Everton 0-0 Hull

    Everton have yet to get going which is strange considering they can go level on points with fifth spot. 

    Too many poor passes by the men in blue.

  2. Everton 0-0 Hull

    Hull are quickly out of the blocks and Sam Clucas pounces on some sloppy passing. It sets up a move which ends with Ashley Williams blocking Abel Hernandez's shot from inside the area.

    Wakey-wakey Everton.

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  3. KICK-OFF

    Everton 0-0 Hull

    Everton can go level on points with fifth-placed Arsenal if they win.

    We're under way.

  4. 'Roar for Lukaku'

    Everton v Hull (15:00 GMT)

    A huge roar from the home fans as Romelu Lukaku's name is read out over the Goodison speakers.

  5. 'Lukaku can play in Champions League...for Everton'

    Phil Neville
    Former Everton captain on Radio 5 live

    Romelu Lukaku wants to be playing at the top level and the top level is the Champions League. I think he can do it with Everton in the next 12-18 months if Ronald Koeman stays. 

    He's not the finished article, I still think Harry Kane has got the edge over him. He is someone who is getting better and better and is someone Everton cannot afford to lose. 

  6. Everton v Hull (15:00 GMT)

    The only plane above Goodison Park as the teams gather in the tunnel is one taking holidaymakers off to the sunshine. Lucky them. It's a damp and dreary day on Merseyside.

  7. 2017 form team

    Everton

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    Everton in the Premier League in 2017:

    Played: 9

    Won: 6

    Drawn: 2

    Lost:  1

    For: 22

    Against: 7

  8. Lukaku 'trying to stir the pot'

    BBC Radio 5 live

    Former Everton midfielder Leon Osman on Romelu Lukaku's criticism of the club.

    Romelu Lukaku is “trying to stir the pot” to force a move away, says former Everton midfielder Leon Osman.

    Osman also questioned whether Everton shared his ambition to play Champions League football.

    "His thoughts should have been done in-house", he told BBC Radio 5 live. "It makes it feel like he's looking for a move away, like he's trying to stir the pot".

  9. Still fighting

    Hull City

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    Played: 8

    Won: 3

    Drawn: 2

    Lost: 3

  10. Goals, goals, goals

    Everton

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    Gary Lineker scored 30 league goals as Everton finished runners-up to Liverpool in 1985-86.

    No Evertonian has scored 20 in a single league season since.

    Romelu Lukaku is on 19 with 10 matches remaining.

  11. Tigers roaring gain

    Hull City

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    Hull City were bottom of the Premier League table - four points from safety with a -25 goal difference - when they lost 3-0 at home to Manchester City on Boxing Day.

    Mike Phelan did not last much longer after that yet the Tigers have found their bite since the arrival of his replacement Marco Silva in early January.

    A first win at Goodison Park since 1952 could lift them out of the relegation zone depending on how Crystal Palace (home to Watford) and, in the late kick-off, Swansea City (away at Bournemouth) do.

    Their remaining nine games after this include matches against fellow strugglers Middlesbrough (home), Sunderland (home) and Palace (away).

  12. 'Lukaku must stay'

    Phil Neville
    Former Everton captain on Radio 5 live

    If Ronald Koeman is building a team to challenge for a Champions League place then he has to keep hold of Romelu Lukaku. 

    A club would have to spend between £50m-£60m for Lukaku. For Everton to replace him...they'd have to spend £40m-£50m because his goalscoring record is as good as anything for three or four seasons.

    I don't see a replacement out there who could come in and have the type of impact that Lukaku has made since he came to Everton. 

  13. Mirallas in Belgium

    Everton v Hull (15:00 GMT)

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    His future might be uncertain but Romelu Lukaku starts for Everton - no surprise considering his form.

    The Toffees make two changes to the side that beat West Brom last week. 

    Midfielder Kevin Mirallas is in Belgium for the birth of his second child while Gareth Barry drops to the bench. In come Idrissa Gueye and 20-year-old Dominic Calvert-Lewin.

    Everton XI: Robles, Coleman, Ashley Williams, Jagielka, Baines, Schneiderlin, Barkley, Davies, Gana, Calvert-Lewin, Lukaku.

    Subs: Lennon, Barry, Valencia, Stekelenburg, Funes Mori, Holgate, Lookman.

    ..

    Hull City make one change from the side that beat Swansea last weekend - defender Curtis Davies is in for forward Kamil Grosicki. 

    Hull City XI: Jakupovic, Elabdellaoui, Davies, Ranocchia, Maguire, Robertson, Markovic, Huddlestone, N'Diaye, Clucas, Hernandez.

    Subs: Meyler, Maloney, Grosicki, Diomande, Marshall, Elmohamady, Tymon.

  14. 'Everton in shock'

    Phil McNulty
    BBC Sport chief football writer

    Romelu Lukaku has shocked Everton by turning down the most lucrative contract offer in the club's history.

    Everton were confident that the 23-year-old Belgian striker would sign a new five-year deal believed to be worth around £140,000-a-week.

    Lukaku's agent, Mino Raiola, even went public on negotiations claiming his client was "99.9%" certain to extend his stay at Goodison Park.

    It has now emerged, however, that Lukaku has informed Everton he currently has no desire to extend a contract which still has two years to run.

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  15. Is Lukaku on his way out?

    He's a hero to tens of thousands.

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    And a pain in the neck to others.

    .Rex Features

    But is Romelu Lukaku's goal-den stay at Everton coming to an end? 

    The big striker wants to win big trophies - and the Toffees haven't won one since the days of Neville Southall and 'Big Dunc'.

    .Rex Features