Everton travel to the Greek capital to play AEK Athens in the Europa League on Wednesday evening desperate to return to winning ways after a miserable run of form in the Premier League.

The Toffees currently occupy the second automatic qualifying spot in Group I and are three points behind leaders Benfica.

The Portuguese giants gave David Moyes' men much food for thought when they twice outclassed them recentyl, recording a resounding 5-0 victory at the Estadio da Luz beofre securing a 2-0 win at Goodison Park.

Having suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of city neighbours Liverpool in Sunday’s Merseyside derby, David Moyes will be desperate to get back to winning ways after a poor run of form.

Last season's FA Cup runners-up have lost their last three league games to Manchester United (3-0), Hull (3-2) and Liverpool (2-0) respectively, and are struggling for confidence as well as being decimated by injuries to key players.

Goals by Joseph Yobo, Sylvain Disitn, Jo and Stephen Pienaar secured a comprehensive 4-0 win for Everton when the two teams met on Mathcday 1, although the Greek giants have since improved and only find themselves two points behind Everton in the race for automatic qualification.

AEK striker Ismael Blanco is gunning for revenge and is ready to heap more misery on the Merseyside outfit:"We still have a thorn in our side over the way they stuck so many goals past us," he told UEFA.com.

"It'll be a tough match - a final for us because we cannot lose – but the fact that it's an all-or-nothing game is because we lost a good opportunity to beat BATE at home.

"Our season hasn't gone well and sadly we are probably too far behind to win the league so going far in the Europa League is crucial to the fans and players," he added.

A win for the Enosis will see them leapfrog the Toffees into second whereas elsewhere a win for Benfica at BATE Borisov will seal their passage into the knockout stages.