Welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s live coverage of the first Premier League clash of the day, and it's a good'un too - Tottenham Hotspur v Everton!

Everton break forward but Spurs regroup quickly. Yakubu is fouled as he tried to turn past Kaboul. Free-kick on the edge of the box for the Toffees...

Bale motors to the byline and hooks the ball back in. Modric strikes from the edge of the box... Howard gets down low to save!

It takes Coleman and Neville to stop Bale in his tracks at the expense of a throw. Sylvain Distin clears Assou-Ekotto's cross but Spurs retain the ball.

Van der Vaart's cross is headed away and Younes Kaboul fouls as he chases down the second ball.

Phil Neville brings down Bale as the Welshman heads for the left wing. Another decent set piece for Spurs...

Bilyaletdinov rolls the ball across to Tim Cahill, whose strike from distance was on target but never going to test Heurelho Gomes.

Van der Vaart's delivery is a decent on but it's cleared. Everton break and Wilson Palacios brings down Yakubu. The Honduran gets the game's first booking, which will hamper his defensive efforts for the rest of the match now.

Coleman is unfortunate to be penalised after sliding in and intercepting a well-weighted ball down the channel from Luka Modric, but he brongs down Benoit Assou-Eotto too.

Hutton sends a cross from deep to Crouch at the far post. Jagielka stays strong and he puts off the striker, who was slightly off balance.

Everton keeping possession well but Spurs hold their shape and eventually win the ball back.

Jagielka and Peter Crouch are under a high ball and the defender slips! Crouch then trips over the prone Jagielka as he triesd to take advantage.

Nice move forward from Everton initiated by Phil Jagielka. Seamus Coleman finds Leighton Baines via Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, but the left-back concedes the goal kick.

Tottenham have scored 10 goals this season compared to 19 at the same stage last season. (Opta)

Johnny Heitinga fouls Rafael van der Vaart. Let's see how the international colleagues fare against each other today.

Everotn have won this fixture in three of the last four seasons. A 2-1 Spurs win back in February has been the exception in recent times.

Everton kick off to get this show on the road! This game promises much...

Just before kick off, there will be a minute's applause for Spurs legend Mel Hopkins, who died earlier this week.

The teams are in the tunnel, ready to come out the theme from Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, as you do. With no King or Huddlestone in the squad, Luka Modric will wear the armband and lead the home side out.

Everton boss David Moyes is hoping his side have finally put their customary poor start behind them: "We think we're a side who are good enough to be at the top end of the league. We didn't show that in the opening games of the season. We were all a bit surprised by it after the way we'd finished the season before."

Spurs boss Harry Redknapp is adamant that the club won't sell Gareth Bale, despite his treble in Italy announcing his talents to the wider footballing world: "Really Tottenham is a club wanting to progress, if Tottenham sold Gareth Bale now it would send the wrong signals. There's no way the club should or would consider selling him in the near future. We should be looking to improve the team not sell one of our very best players."

Tottenham's run of three straight wins has seen them climb up to 17th in the Euro Club Index, which measures the performance of all European clubs over a three-year period, while Everton's win over Liverpool last Sunday lifted them three places to 26th.