Aiming to extend their winning streak across all tournaments to three matches, an in-form Everton host Brighton & Hove Albion at Goodison Park in Saturday's Premier League fixture.
The Toffees put three unanswered goals past Burnley in midweek to progress to the EFL Cup quarter-finals, while Roberto De Zerbi's team failed to hang onto a slender lead in a 1-1 draw with Fulham last weekend.
The Clarets may have undergone a significant transformation since Sean Dyche handed the reins over to Vincent Kompany, but the ex-Clarets boss taught his old employers a footballing lesson at Goodison, as Amadou Onana and Ashley Young made the victory more emphatic in the second period.
An intriguing last-eight tie with Fulham has now been added to Everton's Christmas calendar, and Goodison will be brimming with festive joy should Dyche's side continue along the same road, having now come up trumps in five of their last seven fixtures across all competitions.
Three days before knocking Burnley out of the cup, Everton became the first team in 2023 to prevent West Ham United from scoring in a Premier League home game, as a solitary Dominic Calvert-Lewin effort saw the Toffees rise to 15th in the table with a five-point chasm separating them from the drop zone.
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