Team news from Everton | Tarkowski to add to Dyche's injury concerns?

Everton are without a number of senior players for Saturday's Premier League clash at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (3pm UK) - with key defender James Tarkowski also a doubt.

Toffees' boss Sean Dyche labelled Tarkowski's fitness 'a maybe situation' in his pre-match press conference on Thursday afternoon with the centre-back battling to overcome a hamstring issue.

James Garner, Seamus Coleman, Youssef Chermiti, Nathan Patterson and Jarrad Branthwaite will all miss out due to injury. Ashley Young also serves a one-match suspension after a red card in last week's opener against Brighton, a 3-0 loss at Goodison.

Speaking to the media, Dyche reported: "Jarrad is still a bit away. He's not close at the moment. A few of the lads are getting a bit closer - Seamus is a bit closer, Jimmy Garner is a bit closer and is just coming back in training with the group. Tarky has got a maybe situation so we're going to have to look at that going into the next game.

"We obviously know the right-back situation with the suspension of Youngy as well, Youssef is a bit longer-term as well, Patterson is a bit longer-term as well. It's still a challenge that's ongoing and we haven't got much of a situation to correct it with financially, so we've just got to work with the players and hope they get back to being fully fit and staying fully fit."