(Reuters) - Everton will prioritise Sunday's Merseyside derby against Liverpool over their final Europa League game and will field a second-string weakened team against Apollon Limassol on Thursday, the Premier League club's manager Sam Allardyce has said. Everton, who are bottom of their Europa League group and cannot progress to the knockout stages, currently have several players out of action through injury and Allardyce was not willing to gamble on more players being sidelined. "It is a dead rubber," Allardyce told British media. "It would be foolish of me to consider getting a player injured in that game and not have him available. Everton have climbed to 10th in the league after winning their last two games and will be hoping to beat fourth-placed Liverpool for the first time since 2010.

Source: The Star December 05, 2017 09:11 UTC