After being ineligible to play for Everton against parent club Manchester City on Saturday, loan star Jack Grealish looks set to return at home to Tottenham Hotspur next Sunday. The first £100m English footballer has made an impressive start to life on Merseyside.

And after picking up the first Premier League Player of the Month award in the week of his 30th birthday, after providing four assists in his first two starts for the Blues in the competition, he netted a first-ever stoppage-time winner at Hill Dickinson Stadium in the last game there, to break his scoring duck for the club and complete a 2-1 comeback victory to deny Crystal Palace from extending their record-breaking unbeaten run to 20 matches.

In Jack Grealish’s absence at the Etihad Stadium, Carlos Alcaraz, who also impressed against the Eagles after coming on as a half-time substitute, was deployed on the left wing.

But he endured a much quieter afternoon before being replaced...