Source: Liverpool_Echo
Sylvain Distin major doubt for Everton FC's key Europa league match in Athens tonight
SYLVAIN Distin has emerged as a major injury doubt for Everton's key Europa league match in Athens tonight.[LNB]The French centre-back is suffering from a hamstring strain and becomes the latest name on a long injury list, leaving manager David Moyes with a selection headache ahead of the Group I game with AEK.[LNB]If he does not recover enough to take part at the Olympic stadium, it could mean Moyes having to ask rookie defender Shane Duffy or fellow youngster Shkodran Mustafi to form a makeshift and completely untried centre-back partnership with Tony Hibbert.[LNB]Lucas Neill and John Heitinga are ineligible for the game, and Joseph Yobo is also ruled out with a hamstring injury suffered in Sunday's derby.[LNB]Despite travelling to the Greek capital with the squad, Jack Rodwell is also unlikely to return.[LNB]Moyes said: 'We have had to do with the likes of Tony Hibbert and Phil Neville playing at centre-half already this season and it makes the game more difficult.[LNB]'We have got to look at it for what it is. We will be going into the game with possibly a really young centre half depending on how Sylvain is.'
