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Kevin Mirallas' return to Everton action is ahead of schedule after the Belgium international came back to training earlier than required.

The 26-year-old has been having one-on-one sessions at the Blues Finch Farm training ground this week and will join up with the rest of the squad today ahead of the weekend’s friendly in Germany.

International team-mate Romelu Lukaku will also return to training this morning but the pair are not expected to feature in the game with SC Paderborn on Saturday.

Everton manager Roberto Martinez, who watched his side lose 3-1 to Celta Vigo last night at Prenton Park, is confident the majority of squad will hit the ground running on the opening day of the Premier League season at Leicester City.

But the Blues boss admits a group of the club’s World Cup stars – including Mirallas and Lukaku – will require further time on the training ground before they are ready to tart a game.

“You are going to get individual answers but 95% of the players will be peaking for the Leicester game and then you are you going to get a small group – the ones who arrived a little bit later from the World Cup and weren’t involved last night – who will need more time,” said Martinez.

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“Kevin Mirallas has been working well already and Romelu is joining us today and they are going to be a little bit behind the others.

“But everyone else, I was very pleased with. Mo Besic and Ross Barkley showed a pleasing level and overall the game was a really good exercise and I got a lot of really good information from certain partnerships and certain things we need to improve on.”

Martinez added: “Kevin wanted to join us a little bit earlier. His due date was today but he has arrived already and has been doing some work. He has done three sessions that is going to help him be fully fit earlier than we had planned.”

Aiden McGeady put the Blues ahead after just nine minutes last night but Celta striker Nolito bagged a first-half hat-trick to seal the win. The La Liga side were sharp and hassled Everton with a high pressing game.

Martinez said the Blues will feel the benefit of having faced such a well drilled side but that defeat has given him food for thought.

“We knew they were going to press high, they are well drilled and we want to try and play through it,” he said.

“In many ways, we were able to adapt to that pressure. Of course, we gave two goals away which is very significant because we need to get better out of that part of it.

“But it is as good an exercise as you are going to get. Celta is a team with a real dynamic look about them and they press with a real intensity. We needed that just before the game in Germany.” Right-back Seamus Coleman is likely to be sidelined for the rest of pre-season with a hamstring injury and Martinez admits the delay in his recovery is frustrating.

“Seamus is well but, as you can imagine, full of frustration because we only expected Seamus to miss a few days training but it has become a little bit harder to get him on the ball and back in games,” he said.

“We are frustrated but he is not too far away from being fully fit and being ready to have a strong season. Sometimes you don’t want to miss the first game but the picture is sometimes bigger than that.”