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Everton boss Marco Silva admits Ademola Lookman has maybe already deserved a starting place as the manager ponders potential changes against Newcastle.

The winger has had to settle for a place on the Blues bench over the last few weeks, but has been pushing hard to take one of the starting places in the squad.

The 21-year-old was again brought off the bench at Anfield this weekend and put in an impressive display as Everton lost 1-0 to Liverpool on Sunday.

And, speaking about the winger's potential chance of starting against Newcastle on Wednesday, Silva admitted Lookman could have already deserved a place in previous games.

However, the boss also revealed that a slight injury problem kept that from happening in the Merseyside derby.

"100%, he's pushing really hard," Silva told his pre-Newcastle press conference.

"Maybe he already deserved a place in the starting XI, but it's football and I'm here to make decisions.

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"I can tell you, because the game has already passed, he had a different week last week. He worked with our team just on Saturday, he had a small issue on Tuesday before the Liverpool game.

"It was good for me that nobody talked about this situation, it was a good signal to me!

"He did very well in 30 minutes against Liverpool and he's more than ready to start and is a possibility for tomorrow.

"It's not just with him. We don't have much time to recover from the last match, having 72 hours until we play again after the Liverpool match.

"Our opponent will have one more day to prepare and recover their players. It's possible I make some changes or not to our starting XI."