The Everton family will help injured defender Seamus Coleman recover from his horrific double leg break, according to Blues boss Ronald Koeman.

The popular Irishman suffered the injury in his side’s World Cup qualifier with Wales on Friday night, and has since undergone surgery to aid the healing process after a tackle from Neil Taylor left him with a broken right tibia and fibula.

And while Koeman knows he will be without one of his most experienced players for a considerable length of time, he has backed those at the club, and its supporters, to help Coleman through the trauma.

“He will be aware that the thoughts of his teammates, the coaching staff, everyone at the club and all Evertonians are with him at this time,” said Koeman.

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“No-one ever wishes to see something like this happen to any player, much less one of our own.

“The medical staff here at Everton are in contact with the medical staff of the Republic of Ireland and we will continue to liaise closely.

“Seamus will face a lengthy recovery period and we will support him throughout this.

“He is a really strong character and he has a great family around him and we, his extended family at Everton, will be here for him to help him get through this over the coming days, weeks and months.”

West Ham playmaker Manuel Lanzini is determined to help the Hammers end their five-game winless run when they travel to the KCOM Stadium to take on Hull City on Saturday.

The Hammers, who have not picked up a win since early February – a 3-1 victory over Southampton – have slipped to 12th in the Premier League.

The Argentine playmaker has found some form after the early part of his season was disrupted by a knee injury sustained while preparing for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

And while Lanzini believes he still has a lot to offer the Hammers as they approach the final part of the season, he insists he does not feel the pressure of performing on the big stage.

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“The start of the season was particularly tough for me, with the Olympics I went to Argentina and picked up an injury and missed out on pre-season,” he recalled.

“Halfway through the season things started picking up for me within the team. I’m now fit and confident and the coach has shown faith in me, as have my teammates.

“I feel like I’m an important player here and that’s just what I needed in order to be able to show what I am capable of on the pitch.

“I’m not feeling the pressure. I’m very comfortable with how things are going at the moment and feel like a very important part of the team, which is just what I wanted.”

Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma admits he is not looking beyond the end of this season in terms of his future.

But while that fact may be cause for concern for Blues fans, with the 22-year-old a hot prospect in European football and a number of clubs interested in his signature, Zouma insists he is happy in south-west London.

The French international has endured a frustrating season at Stamford Bridge, having to overcome a serious knee injury before finding his first-team opportunities limited – with Gary Cahill, David Luiz and Cesar Azpilicueta thriving in Antonio Conte’s back three.

And while he believes talks about his future will be necessary with the Chelsea hierarchy at the end of the season, Zouma is adamant he wants to stay with the club.

“Of course that’s my aim. I arrived here two-and-a-half years ago. I want to continue here, I’m very happy here,” said Zouma, whose contract runs to 2019.

“It’s true that I don’t really focus on the future. I concentrate on the present with the squad. We have a quality squad, we get on very well, and we want to do great things.

“We’ll see [about my future] at the end of the season. But I’m really focused on Chelsea. I’m confident, I know I’m going to play. I know that.

“No, we haven’t talked about it. We’re really focused on our season, which has been very good.

“Everything else we’ll perhaps look at at the end of the season, but it’s not on the agenda for the moment.”

Crystal Palace have got a tough season run-in on paper – but captain Scott Dann insists his side fear no-one.

Dann has found himself out of the starting XI of late as Sam Allardyce’s side have strung together three wins in a row to climb out of the relegation zone.

But they will face all of the top six in their remaining ten games of the top flight season in what could prove a very tough run-in.

Allardyce has never before managed a team to relegation, and Dann insists that record is going to continue this year.

“People say we have a tough run-in, and yes on paper it is, but every game in this league is tough, with different pressures in different games,” he said.

“Having the last three results we have had in the last three games gives us confidence to go and play against those so-called bigger teams and get a result.

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“And I think if we keep performing as we have been doing, there is no reason why we can’t beat one of those teams.

“For the last few games I haven’t played too many minutes and I need to be ready for when you back in.

“I want to keep myself fit – I missed the game at Stoke and since then we have been doing well and won three games on the bounce, and kept three clean sheets as well.

“When the team is doing well, you don’t have to change so, I am a team player and I want us to keep winning – if we keep winning I will be happy.”

Philippe Coutinho insists Liverpool must focus on their own game and not get distracted by the form of local rivals Everton.

The Reds meet Ronald Koeman’s resurgent Blues in the Merseyside derby on Saturday with Liverpool hoping to consolidate their place in the top four and dent the Toffees’ late push for a Champions League place.

Jurgen Klopp’s side are fourth in the Premier League with 56 points, six ahead of Everton in sixth.

Coutinho acknowledges Everton’s good run puts extra emphasis on the clash at Anfield, and believes the only way to come out on top is to not get too distracted by events at Goodison Park.

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“The derby is a very special match for everyone, the fans and the players,” he said.

“We know what it means. The people of Liverpool live this match with so much emotion and this time it is even more because Everton have improved so much in recent weeks.

“We know it won’t be easy, but we know we have to win, for our fans, for our morale and for everybody.

“I just concentrate on my own club. Liverpool is my only focus and my only interest.

“I don’t even think about any of our rivals – including Everton. All I want to do is to help this club get into the Champions League and finish as high in the table as we can.”

Christian Eriksen has no plans to leave White Hart Lane after establishing himself as a key figure in Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham side.

The Danish international signed a new contract earlier this season, with Spurs getting long-term commitments from the vast majority of first choice players including Dele Alli, Harry Kane and skipper Hugo Lloris.

This season Eriksen has been one of the key men in helping Spurs to second in the Premier League table, with ten goals and 16 assists in all competitions.

And having arrived at Spurs following the departure of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, Eriksen believes Tottenham have changed status as a club in that time.

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He said: “I have honestly not thought about (leaving).

“I live in the present. Right now, there are still more than three years left on my contract.

“I feel great here and I really like being at Tottenham.

“The starting point was different when Bale was sold. At that time Tottenham used to battle for sixth and seventh.

“Now our plan is to be at the top every season. Today there is much less chance that those sorts of profiles will be sold.

“Many players have extended their contracts and want to be part of the future project.”

Marcus Rashford believes his continual drive to improve himself is already paying off, saying he is a much better player than when he burst onto the scene spectacularly a year ago.

The Manchester United striker turned heads with four goals in his first two starts last season, in a remarkable debut campaign which culminated in him going to the European Championships with England.

This season, Rashford has found gametime hard to come by – often playing second fiddle to Zlatan Ibrahimovic at Old Trafford.

But the 19-year-old is adamant that he has added to his game under Jose Mourinho and is keen to push on and show United fans he can become the player many tipped him to be.

“I’m a completely different player now compared to where I was this time last season,” Rashford said.

“All my focus is just on trying to improve for the future and to make history for my club and the country.

“I am quite hard on myself, but people around me are always pushing me. I think it is needed if you want to be the best.

“People don’t always look at that. They look at the results but they don’t look at what you do to get the results.

“When it all comes together people will start to realise.”

Michail Antonio is a West Ham regular who has earned call-ups to the England squad but claims he wouldn’t be where he is today’s without his mum’s advice to focus on education.

Antonio was in non-league Tooting & Mitcham United’s junior teams when, as a 14-year-old, he was scouted by Spurs.

But his mother refused to let him link up with the club as she believed the travelling involved would have an adverse effect on her son’s schoolwork.

Having progressed to Tooting & Mitcham’s first-team, Antonio was all set to study Sports Science at Southampton University en route to being a PE teacher when he got signed by Reading in 2008.

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The midfielder went from there, to Sheffield Wednesday, to Nottingham Forest, then West Ham and admits he is delighted to now have an education and a professional football career.

“At 14, the manager of my school also coached at Tottenham and he got a scout to come down,” explained Antonio.

“Me and my friend both got scouted and he scored an unbelievable overhead kick from outside the box!

“So he went and my mum said ‘no’ because, to be honest, I lived in south London and would have had to travel to north London every day.

“I also had to do college, so I’d have got home at eleven o’clock at night and then had to get up to go to school.

“My mum said ‘football isn’t a guarantee, but education is’ and ‘education comes first’ and I think it’s one of the best things she could have ever done for me because I’ve now got my education and I’ve also got my football.”

Scott Dann admits he has played at times this season when he shouldn’t have, but the Crystal Palace skipper claims he is now fully fit.

It has been a frustrating season for Dann, with him first picking up a hamstring injury in the EFL Cup game against Southampton in September.

That kept him out for over a month and while he hasn’t missed any other extended periods of action, niggles have limited him to substitute appearances in recent weeks.

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The Eagles could really do with their captain back in the saddle as they fight relegation over the next couple of months and the defender is confident he is now past the worst of his knocks.

“I have had a couple of niggly injuries over the season and played at times when I probably shouldn’t have played, but I always want to be out there,” said Dann.

“It has been going on since early in the season, I think six or seven games in I picked up an injury [at Southampton in the League Cup] that I shouldn’t have really picked up, and shouldn’t have really played that game, and I have been trying to get myself fit.

“But I probably have played a few games I shouldn’t have played, but I finally feel now that I am back to full fitness and ready to play.”