Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, March 9.
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Everton manager Frank Lampard has already named the Manchester City star he dreads facing ahead of this weekend's clash.
City will travel to Lampard's Everton on Saturday evening hoping to get back on track following defeat to Tottenham last time out.
The Toffees will be aiming for a similarly surprising result at the weekend having been defeated by Southampton in their previous fixture.
Lampard, though, will hoping Raheem Sterling is absent from the teamsheet come the weekend.
Speaking back in 2019 to The Guardian via Bleacher Report, the former Chelsea and City midfielder was full of praise for the England international.
He explained: "I don't like to talk about other club's players but Raheem Sterling is an incredible example of a player with great talent, whose work ethic added to that talent and improvement in a short period of time through absolute dedication, has seen him become a complete player, who we are all wowed by.
"He is a great model for Callum [Hudson-Odoi] because Callum has those talents.
"I want him to be the absolute best because he has the potential to do that and some of it is about hard truths and I saw some hard truths in the game the other day - ways that he can improve."
Lampard took over on Merseyside in January after Rafa Benitez was sacked by Everton.
On his first day, which happened to be the January deadline day, he brought in Donny van de Beek and Dele Alli.
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Here are your morning headlines for Wednesday, March 9.
Michael Carrick has admitted Donny van de Beek wasn't given enough first-team opportunities at Manchester United before heading out on loan.
Everton fans have reacted angrily whilst Manchester City fans have breathed a sigh of relief as VAR denied the hosts a late penalty.
Rodri avoided conceding a penalty against Everton after VAR determined that the referee had not made a clear and obvious error in failing to give a handball.
Aleks Zinchenko and Vitaliy Mykolenko shared a quiet moment on the pitch ahead of Manchester City's Premier League meeting with Everton.
Manchester City return to Premier League action this evening hoping to respond to last weekend's defeat to Tottenham.
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Everton boss Frank Lampard says he will do "everything he can" to get a reaction from his players against Manchester City after their defeat to Southampton last weekend.
Manchester United midfielder Donny van de Beek has admitted that he prefers to play as a box-to-box-type midfielder after making his first start for Everton on Saturday.