Everton manager David Moyes has no new injury concerns ahead of his side's trip to Blackpool on Saturday – but says he will not consider starting Jack Rodwell.

Rodwell was an unused substitute in the 1-0 win over Stoke City and played for just under an hour in the reserves on Wednesday.

But Moyes says Rodwell, who has been out since the end of August, has not fully recovered from the ankle injury he picked up in the 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa.

"I think he's close but I don't think he's quite ready yet, but we may need to continue to include him," said Moyes.

"We included him on the bench last week in case we needed his height against Stoke City but he's not fully confident on his ankle yet.

"He played 50 minutes in the reserves and will probably be included again tomorrow, but I don't think he's ready to start and I think he would probably agree with that.

Victor Anichebe also appeared for the reserves against Blackpool in midweek, but Moyes revealed he is not yet in line for a first-team return.

The striker's 20-minute cameo at Finch Farm came before he had returned to training and the Everton manager said it was Anichebe's decision to play in that game.

"We weren't planning to bring Victor back becuase he hadn't trained,” said Moyes. “But he felt he could use 20 minutes in the reserves so we took a risk and gave him that.

"Victor has only had 20 minutes of football so we'll try and up his training and he'll start training with us (the first team) from today."

Moyes also gave an update on Leon Osman, who has had an operation on the ankle injury that has kept him out since he was substituted at half-time in the 2-0 derby win over Liverpool.

"Leon Osman has had an operation to remove a piece of floating bone in his ankle. We thought he was going to be out for four to six weeks, now we think it will be six weeks."

Squad to face Blackpool: Howard, Mucha, Hibbert, Neville, Distin, Jagielka, Baines, Heitinga, Arteta, Pienaar, Cahill, Rodwell, Bilyaletdinov, Coleman, Yakubu, Saha, Gueye, Beckford