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Everton's Argentinian newboy, Ramiro Funes Mori, could be stepping off a 13-hour Transatlantic flight and straight into his second successive high intensity derby clash, if John Stones fails to recover from a knee injury during the current international break.

Stones has been ruled out of England’s final two Euro 2016 qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania and been sent back to Merseyside to continue his rehab.

New signing Mori has stepped impressively into the breach during Stones’ absence in the last two matches, but with Everton’s next Premier League fixture a Lancashire derby against Manchester United, scheduled for an unusual 3pm Saturday kick-off time, the Argentinian will have precious little recovery time from World Cup qualifying duties with his country.

Mori is in the Argentina squad which kicks off its qualifying campaign for Russia 2018 against Ecuador in the early hours of Thursday morning then flies north to Paraguay for a match which kicks off at 1am Wednesday morning UK time.

With the 6,000 mile transatlantic journey taking 13 hours, Mori would effectively be able to take part in just one final training session at Finch Farm, barring flight delays, before the visit of United to Goodison.

The likelihood of Mori playing in both fixtures has increased with Manchester United defender Marcos Rojo withdrawing from the Argentina squad in a bid to be fit for the Everton clash after missing the last four United fixtures with a hamstring injury.

Argentina boss Gerardo Martino could turn to Mori, who told Argentinian newspaper Olé “I’m happy to have adapted so quickly at Everton. I’ve already played five games of very intense and highly technical football, and I feel happy with the amount of trust put in me by Martino.”

The Everton defender already has two caps for Argentina, winning his first in March in a 2-0 friendly win over El Salvador.