Roberto Martinez takes charge of Everton for the first time at Goodison Park when they play host to West Brom on Saturday.
The Spaniard saw his team take a well-earned point away to Norwich City in the opening game of the season, and were only denied by a superb header from Ricky van Wolfswinkel who levelled the game at 2-2.
Steve Clarke will have to revitalise his charges as they fell to a 1-0 defeat at home to Southampton on Saturday courtesy of a 90th-minute penalty from Rickie Lambert.
Everton lead the head-to-head meetings in the league between the two sides with 60 wins to West Brom s 54, but the sides took a win apiece in the Premier League last season.
West Brom have lost on their last two league visits to Goodison Park, but their last success at the ground was a 4-1 romp in November 2010.
Sylvain Distin is a doubt for the game after picking up a knock in the draw with Norwich, but full-back Tony Hibbert could feature after returning to training on Monday.
However, close-season signing Antolin Alcaraz is definitely ruled out with a hamstring injury picked up in pre-season.
Republic of Ireland international midfielder Darron Gibson could feature if he recovers from a knee problem that kept him out of the Norwich game, but he will have trouble displacing Ross Barkley who impressed against Chris Hughton s side.
Sylvain Distin is the one we re a little bit concerned about, Martinez told the club s official website. But knowing Sylvain, you can never say that he s not going to be available at the weekend.
Darron Gibson is progressing really, really well. It s one of those injuries where you need to be very, very careful you don t come back too early. He s still 50-50 for the weekend but I don t expect it to be much longer than that.
West Brom head into the fixture without close-season signing Nicolas Anelka, who has been excused from the squad on compassionate grounds.
Zoltan Gera and George Thorne (both knee) remain long-term absentees for West Brom.
Clarke s side will look for a quick response to their opening-day defeat, and midfielder James Morrison is keen to make amends.
For us, we need to get last Saturday out of the system, because it wasn t great, he told the club s official website. It s a new era for them (Everton), they have a new manager who will probably bring a new style to them.
It s always hard to go to Goodison Park, we haven t had a great record there in the last few years apart from the 4-1 win.
It s a hostile crowd, they re always on top of you, and if you don t start right, you find yourself in for a tough afternoon.
