An exhausting league season for all Portsmouth enthusiasts will be over by 6pm on Sunday after Avram Grant’s team meet an Everton side who can finish no higher or lower than eighth. That will be a place outside next season’s European berths for David Moyes’ men, which can count both as a disappointment and an achievement given their injury problems. Grant’s feat, meanwhile, in taking stricken Portsmouth to next weekend’s FA Cup final is almost miraculous. Injury avoidance may be the visitors’ priority. Jamie Jackson

Venue Goodison Park, tomorrow 4pm Tickets Sold out Last season Everton 0 Portsmouth 3 Referee P Walton

This season’s matches 26 Y67, R4, 2,73 cards per game

Odds Everton 3-10 Portsmouth 10-1 Draw 3-1

Everton

Subs from Nash, Rodwell, Yobo, Senderos, Yakubu, Osman, Wallace, Bilyaletdinov, Duffy, Agard, Baxter

Doubtful Pienaar (ankle)

Injured Neville (knee, Jun), Fellaini (ankle, Aug), Gosling (knee, Jan)

Suspended None

Form guide DWWDDD

Disciplinary record Y58 R2

Leading scorer Saha 13

Portsmouth

Subs from Ashdown, Finnan, Mullins, O’Hara, Diop, Basinas, Belhadj, Ritchie, Kanu, Yebda, Hughes, Smith, Pack, Ward

Doubtful Yebda (knee), Diop (knee), O’Hara (back), Belhadj (hamstring)

Injured Ben Haim (groin, Jun), Hughes (hamstring, Jun), Hreidarsson (achilles, Oct), Webber (knee, Oct)

Suspended None

Form guide WDLDDL

Disciplinary record Y71 R5

Leading scorer Dindane 8

Match pointers

• Everton are unbeaten in 10 games and have not been beaten by more than one goal in their last 23 outings

• Portsmouth have failed to score in four of their last five final-day games

• It is 10 years since Everton last failed to score in their final game of the season

• Steven Pienaar is the most fouled (94) player in the league this season, while Everton are the most fouled team (531)

• 47% of Portsmouth’s Premier League goals this season have been scored by loan players

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There was a theory that there were no easy games against Stoke. Chelsea, 7-0 victors last Sunday, destroyed that. Besides bidding to restore his side’s reputation, Tony Pulis is attempting to locate the mole in his camp, spreading stories of dressing-room rows. There appear plenty to choose from: having branded Dave Kitson and Tuncay “petulant” and “precious”, Pulis may recall Mamady Sidibe while Asmir Begovic will replace the injured Thomas Sorensen in goal. Everton, almost certain to finish eighth, can decide between Louis Saha and Yakubu in attack. Richard Jolly

Venue Britannia Stadium, tomorrow 3pm Tickets £30-£40 (0871 663 2007) Last season Stoke 2 Everton 3 Referee H Webb

This season’s matches 26 Y99, R3, 3.92 cards per game

Odds Stoke 11-4 Everton 12-5 Draw 6-5

Stoke City

Subs from Parton, Pugh, Shawcross, Lawrence, Tuncay, Wilkinson, Moult, Beattie, Kitson, Amdy Faye, Lund

Doubtful None

Injured Sorensen (elbow, Jun)

Suspended None

Form guide LLDWWL

Disciplinary record Y63 R5

Leading scorer Kitson, Tuncay 6

Everton

Subs from Nash, Rodwell, Yobo, Senderos, Yakubu, Osman, Bilyaletdinov, Duffy, Agard, Baxter, Wallace Doubtful None

Injured Heitinga (ankle, 9 May), Fellaini (ankle, Aug), Gosling (knee, Jan)

Suspended None

Form guide WWDDDW

Disciplinary record Y58 R2

Leading scorer Saha 13

Match pointers

• Everton have won eight and lost none of their last 10 matches in all competitions against Stoke

• Stoke have conceded as many goals in their last two league games (9) as in the previous 12

• Tim Cahill has scored seven headed goals, a league high

• Matthew Etherington has provided 25% of Stoke’s assists in the Premier League, only Aston Villa’s James Milner has been as vital

• Everton would be a point behind Manchester United and level with Chelsea if the season started on 1 January

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