Football: Weekend guide to the Premiership: Everton v Chelsea
Last season: 3-1
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Your support makes all the difference.EVERTON will be looking for their third successive Premiership win following their week of boardroom turmoil. Defender David Unsworth is suspended for the visit of fifth-placed Chelsea, while striker Danny Cadamarteri plays his last game before a one-match ban. The youngster got both goals in last week's 2-1 win at Charlton in the wake of Duncan Ferguson's departure. Olivier Dacourt is back in training after an ankle problem, while experienced internationals Nicky Barmby and Slaven Bilic came through a midweek reserve match unscathed.
Gianluca Vialli has a virtually full-strength squad to choose from as Chelsea aim to bounce back from only their second defeat of the season against Wimbledon in the Worthington Cup quarter-final. Only Eddie Newton, close to a return after injury, and long-term absentee Pierluigi Casiraghi are out of the running so the only change from the line-up which drew 1-1 at home to Sheffield Wednesday last weekend could be the return of Dennis Wise from a four-match suspension, although Michael Duberry and Dan Petrescu will again be pushing for places.
EVERTON (from): Myhre, Ball, Watson, Short, Dunne, Materazzi, Cleland, Collins, Hutchison, Grant, Bakayoko, Cadamarteri, Oster, Simonsen, Jeffers, Milligan, Barmby, Bilic.
CHELSEA (from): De Goey, Kharine, Hitchcock, Leboeuf, Babayaro, Desailly, Le Saux, Ferrer, Duberry, Lambourde, Petrescu, Di Matteo, Poyet, Wise, Goldbaek, Nicholls, Morris, Zola, Flo, Vialli.
Suspensions: Everton: Unsworth.
Referee: G Willard.
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