Everton vs Chelsea

This is a huge game at both ends of the Premier League table, with Everton needing the points in their fight for survival and Chelsea look to secure third ...

“This team has the mentality of Azpi, over years now. “To play now against him and Everton is also big. •2h ago •1h ago •1h ago •2h ago •1h ago Antonio Rudiger is already on his way out, and close to agreeing terms with Real Madrid, but could other players follow the German and depart for pastures new? Does Lampard have what it takes to drag the Toffees away from danger and guide them towards retaining their top-flight status? Now it is up to us to give them something back." His shot grazes the top of the net as it goes out for a goal-kick. He told the club's channels: "It is amazing, it is incredible support.

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In the aftermath Mount shoved someone and has picked up a yellow card and most of the players are in the middle of the pitch. It wasn’t the fight that let them down, it was the quality. That’s what did for them at Anfield in the end. Mount, Havertz and Rudiger all playing on the edge here. Crowd back up as Everton break. Then Rudiger finds himself at the back post and Pickford throws himself across the goal and somehow blocks the goalbound shot. Rudiger loses the ball to Richarlison in the corner and there is a clear vulnerability for Everton to exploit here. Stay with us as we build up to today's 2pm kick-off and instant reaction to Everton's team news. But Pickford scrambles back to somehow paw it clear. Lukaku goes out to warm up and claps the crowd, he's met with a mix of applause and boos in response. Similarly to his midfield partner he's putting in a lot of work in the centre, and perhaps that's justified his inclusion in the side today. Delph now in the book for a late tackle on Mount. There is a bit of bite in this game and with five yellows already I wouldn’t be surprised to see a red.

GOAL! Everton 1 Chelsea 0 (Richarlison 46). A shocking moment from Chelsea's Azpilicueta! He dithers on the ball, Richarlison pinches it, and wallops it past ...

“There was also pressure in my final period at Chelsea, when you are wanting to get results in a short period of time. “In my first year in management at Derby the play-offs were pretty stressful. “You need to have real support at home and I’m fortunate that I have that with my wife and children,” he added. “Those things are easy to bounce off him and you might get some nuggets from there. “For me, speaking to people like Harry, you find the best things they say are really simple. Ball is pumped into the box. But Chelsea keep the move alive and Alonso gets the shot away. He's penalised for use of hands in the ruck. Havertz falls on the ball and won't release it. Good move from Chelsea on the break there, Coleman with some excellent defending. Take out the fouls and there would have been nothing to tell you. The follow up strike comes in and Pickford does superbly well to react and block.

Everton vs Chelsea: Frank Lampard and the Toffees find themselves with six must-win games remaining, beginning when the Blues visit Goodison Park on Sunday.

Everton team news, injuries, lineup ( INJURY REPORT) There is also the looming sale of the club, which could result in significant turnover of the first-team squad in the summer — or, worse, very little movement at all — leaving plenty of individuals with uncertain futures as at least a few play out the final days of their Chelsea careers. The 1-1 draw with Manchester United on Thursday showcased both the best and worst of Chelsea, as they dominated the Red Devils at Old Trafford but failed to convert their chances.

Frank Lampard brought through Mason Mount and Reece James at Chelsea but ahead of the Londoners' visit to Goodison Park he praises the "huge" talent of Everton's rising star Anthony Gordon. Take a read as Sky Sports' Peter Smith sat down with the Everton ...

Chelsea travels to Goodison Park to take on Everton in a crucial Premier League showdown at the top and bottom of the league.

Chelsea now have a comfortable six-point lead over top-four rivals Arsenal but will be hoping for the win to secure Champions League qualification as early as possible. The talk going into the match will be around Frank Lampard and if he can save them from relegation as his side fight desperately for points. Everton go into the match off the back of a 2-0 defeat to local rivals Liverpool.

Thomas Tuchel has made one change from the side that drew at Manchester United on Thursday.

The referee is Kevin Friend. That is in midfield where Ruben Loftus-Cheek replaces N’Golo Kante who is not involved today having suffered an injury in the last match. Thomas Tuchel has made one change from the side that drew at Manchester United on Thursday.

Chelsea will be looking to take a big step towards securing Champions League football for next season with a win over relegation-battlers Everton at ...

The Spaniard will have a point to prove to Lampard this afternoon after being frozen out by the Chelsea legend during his time in charge at Stamford Bridge. Christian Pulisic and Hakim Ziyech join Lukaku on the bench. Contrastingly, for Tuchel and his players, today's contest at Goodison Park represents an opportunity to close in on Champions League football for next season.

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Start your Independent Premium subscription today. 6 mins: After several misplaced passes, it’s Arsenal who bed down into a sustained period of possession. Elneny is stamped on by Zouma and that’s a painful one for the Arsenal midfielder. Mike Dean then blows for a foul on the keeper. Lampard needed to wait through seven minutes of additional time but the Toffees held on to claim a vital victory to boost their survival hopes. The England goalkeeper somehow kept the ball out as he scrambled across his goalline to reach Antonio Rudiger’s shot from close range.

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Everton starting lineup (3-4-3): Hopefully he is back in the next match, but not today." Thomas Tuchel on N'Golo Kante's absence from today's squad: "He went off at Old Trafford after 80 minutes and still has pain.

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The Blues then have home games against Leicester and Watford to end the season. That needs to keep coming in and if it doesn't, we have to sort it out. Everton's next clash is a trip to Leicester City, before their crucial game in hand away at Watford on May 11. I am pleased the players could see on the way in what it means to the fans. From the drive in to the support, which we need. If we try to get away with OK, we lose games. Chelsea boss Thomas Tuchel: "We hate to lose, we are responsible for it. I really enjoyed it but that is what I am there to do, help the team. Sky Sports' Jamie Redknapp: "The one to deny Azpilicueta is the save of the season. "They [the players] have to show they care. However, they failed to really click going forward and didn't muster a single shot on target in the first half. Jordan is such a great lad, he is England's number one and that is the reason why.

Frank Lampard defied his former club to get three huge points, boosting 18th-place Everton to 32 points with a match-in-hand on Burnley and Leeds.

Everton only had 22 percent of the ball and the figure was 17 percent in the second half as Chelsea fought to get back into it. Pickford was off the charts with many of his five saves coming late and in fine fashion. The Blues play Wolves, Leeds, Leicester City, and Watford and Tottenham and Arsenal can’t take three points off each other — so it’s unlikely — but the FA Cup finalists have made a foregone conclusion a somewhat rational question. The goal that put Everton ahead sent the place into delirium and even late offside calls against Chelsea drew loud cheers from the crowd, which celebrated with vigor at the final whistle. 1. A whole club wins, celebrates: From the moment Everton’s bus pulled into the stadium to plumes of blue smoke, there was no question the players would show up to play Chelsea… but putting in a shift against Chelsea can still end in a loss on any day. The stadium was electric and rose and fell with each passage of play.

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It shows working hard as a team and individuals and you'll get rewards." "I really enjoyed it but that is what I am there to do, help the team. Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford produced several incredible saves to deny Chelsea a second-half equaliser after Richarlison put the home team ahead in the 46th minute.

Chelsea struggled to get going in the first half of their Premier League clash with Everton on Sunday. The Blues controlled possession in the opening period ...

He will, however, hope he can get a message to his team across at the half-time break. Moments later, Tuchel was again visibly agitated with what he was seeing as Kevin Friend blew for a free-kick for Everton after what looked like very minimal contact. Everton, who saw their relegation rivals Burnley pick up a crucial three points on Saturday afternoon, knew they had to pick up a win against Chelsea, who are still looking to cement a place in the top four.

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Then Rudiger finds himself at the back post and Pickford throws himself across the goal and somehow blocks the goalbound shot. He finds Allan who feeds Gray who, on the edge of the area, creates spaces and curls JUST over. His powerful effort crashed off the inside the near post, flashed across the goalline, and deflected off the opposite upright to come back into play. Havertz could easily have been booked already in this game. But Pickford scrambles back to somehow paw it clear. No-one associated with the club will forget it. Stay with us as we build up to today's 2pm kick-off and instant reaction to Everton's team news. For the first time Everton have someone in the middle of the pitch who can compete physically with Loftus-Cheek and Rondon starts and Everton move that ends with him just unable to connect with a ball flashed across the box. And it wasn't Richarlison putting the ball in the back of the net just after the interval. If the worst comes to pass and the Blues get relegated it will go down as one of the most catastrophic in the club's history. The passion and intensity was continued inside the ground and then replicated on the pitch by the players as they battled through to a 1-0 over Chelsea. Welcome to our Everton live blog as the Blues take on Chelsea at Goodison Park.

Richarlison's 46th-minute goal brought Everton a fourth successive Premier League win over Chelsea at Goodison Park in what was a must-win fixture given ...

The intent was there from Gordon, Richarlison and Demarai Gray but not the support of defensive-minded teammates to unsettle Thiago Silva or Antonio Rüdiger. Something had to give for Everton to claim the goal they desperately needed. A Chelsea response was inevitable and Pickford performed heroics to keep them at bay when it came. Everton’s crucial moment stemmed from a throw-in by Alex Iwobi a minute after the restart. Jorginho and Ruben Loftus-Cheek regularly passed through midfield and yet, for all the space and promising positions that Mason Mount found, Pickford was rarely troubled in the first half. The question was how those with the greatest influence on the club’s Premier League status would respond. But Frank Lampard’s team could take it and Everton’s refusal to go quietly ensured they remain in charge of their precious, precarious Premier League destiny.

The Chelsea head coach watched his side suffer a disappointing 1-0 defeat to Everton at Goodison Park this afternoon.

"I would like you to ask me the question at the next press conference. "We have to take care of ourselves. If you run behind against an opponent like this, in this atmosphere and install emotion and belief in a stadium like this and the opponent's team, you struggle." "For me, this is more like the game against West Ham. The opponent defends deep, we struggled to find space in the first half, but against West Ham, we had a clean sheet and played without any big mistakes. "If there is something I can do, I will try it, but if I knew about it, I would have done it before. That's why we struggle to have results."

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We’ve had a while to get used to the idea, yet it’s still hard to believe that Everton might be relegated. If Everton do drop into the Championship it will be the most shocking relegation in English football since Spurs in 1976-77. There’s an atmosphere of bristling defiance at Goodison Park, and you’d expect a ferocious start from the home side. “Hello from Pittsburgh!” writes Eric Peterson. “I’m a former sports radio announcer, so I’m a fan of not just the games but its many elite announcers. They can’t think like that today, even though Chelsea is literally the third toughest fixture they could face. For people of my age it’s not unusual to see Leeds, Newcastle or even Chelsea and Manchester City playing in the second tier. A week ago they went to Liverpool knowing that, all things being equal, they would lose. Most of us instinctively felt they belonged to a small group of clubs who were if not too good to go down then certainly too big to go down. Quality $hithousery from the Toffees’ fans.” Chelsea are unhappy because Havertz was fouled by Delph on the edge of the area just before that, but the referee Kevin Friend didn’t give the free-kik. 4 min Actually, Gordon and Gray are switching wings all the time. 8 min Mount whips a long-range shot just over the bar.

Frank Lampard gets the crucial three points against former side Chelsea as Thomas Tuchel's side struggle to beat Jordan Pickford.

The German's impact on the game was very little. He hit both posts, in a really unfortunate fashion, in the second-half. Rudiger couldn't be his typical aggressive self after that, but equally, he did nothing wrong on the right side of the back three. His distribution was tidy enough, but overall, it was a relatively quiet game for the Senegalese shot-stopper. Chelsea applied pressure to the Everton goal not long after that, with Mason Mount seeing his strike hit both posts, while Antonio Rudiger and Azpilicueta were both denied by Jordan Pickford. When Everton and Chelsea went head-to-head on Sunday afternoon at a wet Goodison Park, there was a sense of tension around the stadium.

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Mason Mount’s shot came back off the inside of one post onto another before Pickford sprinted across his line to repel Azpilcueta’s follow-up effort. But Everton’s far greater need for the points shone through. Son scored a third in the 79th minute to kill the game, curling an unstoppable effort into the top corner for his 19th Premier League goal of the season before a late consolation for Kelechi Iheanacho. West Ham had one eye on the second leg of their Europa League semi-final against Eintracht Frankfurt in midweek, but David Moyes named a strong side and was rewarded with an equaliser before half-time from Jarrod Bowen. But they needed Jordan Pickford to show why he is England number one with a series of stunning saves to get over the line. Frank Lampard’s men remain in the bottom three, but narrow the gap on both Burnley and Leeds to two points with a game in hand to come.

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It shows working hard as a team and individuals and you'll get rewards." "I really enjoyed it but that is what I am there to do, help the team. Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford produced several incredible saves to deny Chelsea a second-half equaliser after Richarlison put the home team ahead in the 46th minute.

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Tuchel, though, will have known the type of team his players were going to face and surely would have addressed this in their pre-match chat. Cesar Azpilicueta was the latest Blues man to gift the opposition a goal. There were rumours of discontent between Lampard and Rudiger, and if that was true or not, the two shook hands at the end of the game. The former Blues boss, who left the club in January 2021, was quick to go up to his old players and embrace them. It was fair to say Chelsea supporters were not the most confident as they saw their team walk out of the Goodison Park tunnel to a deafening reception. This was a special day for Everton as well, to make things even more difficult for the visitors.

Thomas Tuchel has been speaking to the media after Chelsea lost 1-0 at Everton with Romelu Lukaku not coming on.

This was more like the game against West Ham, and against West Ham, we had a clean sheet and played without any big mistakes. It's a different game against Man United, the game was more open, and there were more chances. Mason Mount saw one of his strikes hit both posts, with Azpilicueta being denied by Jordan Pickford on the rebound.

Premier League: Richarlison, after celebrating his winner against Chelsea, threw a smoke flare back into the stands after it was hurled onto the pitch.

They don't have to go over the line but have to show they care, the fans want to see that. After his goal, which came one minute into the second half, fans went into a frenzy, with some throwing smoke flares on to the ground. Richarlison went on to pick up a smoke flare and throw it back into the stands.