It’s the first of two weekends during the midwinter English Premier League break, and if you’re wondering why you still have EPL football to watch, then we can help. The fixtures have been staggered, essentially, so that there are not too many days without live football, but players still get around a fortnight off each. We’ve put together a guide of exactly how it all works for you, but the fixtures we do have to look forward to this weekend are going to be good. Possibly really good. Let’s take a look at them in a bit more detail.

Everton vs. Crystal Palace (Saturday 8th February, 12.30pm GMT kick-off)

The first match to kick off this weekend is the Yannick Bolasie derby. Or the James Vaughan derby. Or the James McCarthy derby. Look, the point is, these two teams love to trade players, gossip, and rumour has it that the Crystal Palace eagle lives on toffees alone. From a failed summer bid for Wilfred Zaha by Everton to a successful loan bid by Crystal Palace for Turkish striker Cenk Tosun, these two sides have plenty of previous and will go into battle on Saturday lunchtime determined to come out on top.

The two sides are closer in the table that it might look at first glance, too. Everton are five places higher than their South London rivals in 9th place to The Eagles’ 14th-place situation. But the gap is actually only three points, and such is the goal difference that an away win would see Palace leapfrog Everton in the table.