Leicester City v Everton: Premier League – live!

2 min: The free-kick was a waste, one of those where the angle is too shallow to test an opposing defence. Ben Chilwell is usually far better than that with the dead ball.

1 min: Everton begin with a spell of possession until Perez is brought down for a free-kick.

And away we go…with Fanfare For The Common Man closing out the pre-match prelims as Everton take the kick-off.

The King Power sounds loud; these are happy days in Leicester, almost as happy as four seasons ago when they were going for the title. Marco Silva looks pensive, morose almost.

Here’s Marco Silva, who is defiant though rather garbled as he tries to explain his plan for the game.

We have had a lot of problems in the last few weeks for our midfielders. Morgan [Schneiderlin] has had a problem this week and we decided to play three at the back. The formation is not the most important thing. What will make the difference in the attitude on the pitch. We have to change our performance from last week. We have to change the feeling we had last week. We have have to be strong, compact and we don’t leave space.

Here’s Brendan Rodgers, the calm, collected elder statesman of the Premier League, a man of perspective and poise. This is the fifth week in a row he has been able to select an unchanged team.

It’s good if you can keep that stability and rhythm the team but we have players waiting in the wings. We are only playing one game a week at the moment. It looks like they are going to play 5-4-1, which has happened a few times here lately. They are usually 4-2-3-1 so it’s a solution we have to find but these players have been brilliant. There’s always a lot of noise around players and teams and managers. We have to be at our best to get a result.

Tom Davies, the Everton midfielder who looks like a member of Scouse psych legends The Stairs, looks quite relaxed as he speaks to Sky.

It would a great to get a good start. It’s a chance to put things right from last week. They are on good form so we will have to be at out best.

Wolves and Sheffield United also drew 1-1, with Matt Doherty’s second-half goal levelling Lyss Mousset’s early opener. Reports to follow on both those games.

It’s all over between Norwich and Arsenal and it was quite some game.

A vote of confidence from the goalie is a variation on a theme.

Leicester are unchanged from the team that beat Brighton 2-0 last time out, and why not, considering their rich form. For his final (?) fling of the dice, Marco Silva has made three changes with Michael Keane, Alex Iwobi and Dominic Calvert-Lewin coming in. Morgan Schneiderlin, Theo Walcott and Cenk Tosun are the men to make way, and it looks like Silva has opted for three at the back to try and deal with those Leicester fliers.

Leicester: Schmeichel, Chilwell, Ricardo, Soyuncu, Evans, Ndidi, Tielemans, Maddison, Barnes, Perez, Vardy.
Subs: Ward, Justin, Morgan, Albrighton, Iheanacho, Choudhury, Praet.

Everton: Pickford, Digne, Sidibe, Holgate, Keane, Mina, Davies, Sigurdsson, Iwobi, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.
Subs: Lossl, Baines, Tosun, Schneiderlin, Bernard, Kean, Gordon.

Farewell, then, Marco Silva? That appears to the scenario that awaits if Brendan Rodgers’ flashing Leicester blades put the Ev to the sword. And Brendan has previous with Everton. Remember that time Thierry Henry squeezed Jamie Carragher’s thigh? That came after King Brenny was dismissed by Liverpool straight after a drab draw at Goodison and the news had reached the Sky studios.

We could be in for three sackings in a weekend after Arsenal binned Unai Emery and Watford axed poor Quique Sánchez Flores after just ten matches back in Herts. Slow on the attack, ponderous in defence, just about the last opposition that Silva would want to come up against is Leicester. Only Liverpool and Manchester City have scored more, and Leicester have won their last five matches. Everton have actually won two of their last five but it is the cumulative failure of Silva, a manager they entered legal dispute with Watford over appointing, that is likely to cost him. They are 17th, and that is not nearly good enough. Silva probably needs to repeat what Manuel Pellegrini did on Saturday, and beat one of the best teams in the league to offset the speculation. Well, until they play Liverpool this week, that is.

Kick-off 4pm UK time.