Everton 0-2 Chelsea: Report, result, goals from Premier League

Pedro Neto struck twice during the second half as Chelsea moved fourth in the Premier League and ended Everton’s unbeaten start to the top-flight season with victory at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

Portugal winger Neto pounced within seconds of the restart to put the Blues ahead following Morgan Rogers’ backheel to allow Jorrel Hato to cross from the left, then repeated the trick after Cole Palmer’s free-kick hit Everton’s defensive wall and dropped kindly in the 90th minute.

Moises Caicedo hammered a shot against the woodwork from distance during the first half and visiting goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was stretchered off after Neto’s first goal following a collision with Toffees Jarrad Branthwaite, leading to 11 minutes of added time being played.

Everton vs Chelsea: Blues’ ‘cutting edge’ pays

Everton had drawn four and won two of their first six matches and pushed Chelsea hard for much of a combative contest, including five bookings during the first 34 minutes.

Jack Grealish had a first-half shot tipped over the bar by Martinez, who reportedly went to hospital after being replaced by Mike Penders.

Former England defender Stuart Pearce called the game “even-ish”. “Chelsea just had that little bit more cutting edge in general play,” Pearce told TalkSport.

Everton team vs Chelsea

Everton made two changes from their draw at Hull, bringing in defender Vitalii Mykolenko and midfielder Merlin Rohl for Michael Keane and Brennan Johnson.

Branthwaite was fit to start after suffering an issue at the MKM Stadium. Mykolenko returned after missing that game through injury.

Everton: Jordan Pickford, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitaliy Mykolenko, James Garner, Harrison Armstrong, Merlin Rohl, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Jack Grealish, Thierno Barry

Substitutes: Mark Travers, Jake O’Brien, Tyrique George, Tyler Dibling, Christian Norgaard, Brennan Johnson, Charly Alcaraz, Hayden Hackney, Braiden Graham

Chelsea team vs Everton

Jorrel Hato replaced Pep Chavarria in defence in Chelsea’s one change from their win over Bournemouth. Midfielder Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli, 16, made his debut in a 3-0 defeat at Brentford in their last away game on September 18 and was on the bench this time.

Emanuel Emegha (hamstring) and Jamie Gittens (ankle) remained out. Reece James requires knee surgery.

Chelsea: Emiliano Martínez, Josh Acheampong, Maxence Lacroix, Levi Colwill, Jorrel Hato, Moises Caicedo, Jordan Henderson, Pedro Neto, Cole Palmer, Morgan Rogers, Joao Pedro

Substitutes: Mike Penders, Wesley Fofana, Marco Palestra, Valentin Barco, Romeo Lavia, Mahdi Nicoll-Jazuli, Willian Estevao, Geovany Quenda, Danny Welbeck

Everton vs Chelsea Premier League stats, form

• Everton failed to claim consecutive Premier League wins over Chelsea for the first time since beating them in March and December 2019 under Marco Silva and Duncan Ferguson respectively
• Only in 2006/07 had Everton had a longer unbeaten run from the start of a campaign in the competition (first 7)
• Although Everton boss David Moyes has never prevailed in 21 attempts in the Premier League at Stamford Bridge against Chelsea, he has won eight of his last 14 home games against the Blues (D2 L4), with those split between four wins with Everton and four with West Ham
• Chelsea had won one of their preceding nine away Premier League games at Everton (D2 L6), a 1-0 win in August 2022
• They had failed to score in seven of those games, including the previous three, and lost 3-0 on their first visit to the Hill Dickinson Stadium in March
• The last time Chelsea suffered defeat in their first two Premier League matches in a stadium was at Sunderland’s Stadium of Light in 1999/00 (4-1) and 2000/01 (1-0)
• Despite being the third-highest scorers in the Premier League this season, no side had conceded more so far this term than Chelsea (13) before the start of Saturday’s action
• Chelsea ended a 22-game run without a league clean sheet that had been their second-longest such sequence ever, following 31 games between November 1960 and August 1961

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