Everton vs Chelsea LIVE: Premier League latest score and goal updates after Jorginho penalty
Follow live updates as the Blues face off against their former manager Frank Lampard at Goodison Park
There are statement results to kickstart a new era and this was only one in the sense that, after four consecutive defeats at Goodison Park, Chelsea won at what has seemed their bogey ground. For Clearlake Capital, their £4.25 billion investment should secure something more exciting and more emphatic than a stodgy, if hard-fought, triumph in a low-calibre game. For Todd Boehly, the co-owner who has doubled up as his own director of football and whose summer transfer deliberations have encompassed everyone from Cristiano Ronaldo to Carney Chukwuemeka, victory was secured by two throwbacks to past regimes.
Jorginho, once seen as Maurizio Sarri’s pet project, scored a penalty won by Ben Chilwell, the signing Frank Lampard championed more than any other. That it condemned Lampard to defeat felt the least of the cruelties for Chelsea’s record scorer. His past is not his greatest concern in a week when Everton have stumbled into the season defined by costly injuries.
Dominic Calvert-Lewin was ruled out in training, leaving Everton without a striker – even the departed Duncan Ferguson was in the Sky Sports studios, rather than offering an intimidating presence on the touchline - and the luckless Ben Godfrey was taken to hospital long before the final whistle, stretchered off with a seemingly serious injury.
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Fulham vs Liverpool
Liverpool have won their last three Premier League matches, despite conceding the opening goal within the first 15 minutes each time - only Arsenal in March 2012 have ever won four consecutive Premier League games after coming from behind.
The Reds have won their first Premier League match in each of the last four seasons, scoring at least three goals on each occasion.
Is the Premier League too big to fail or could it fall?
A few months ago, some senior European football figures were in England for a meeting, and talk naturally turned to the “product” the Premier League is. There was admiration, but also aggravation.
A sentiment shared that evening, which is increasingly echoed across the continent, is that England’s elite competition is now “so arrogant” it “would be great if it fell”.
Fulham vs Liverpool
Fulham scored 106 league goals on their way to winning the Championship title in 2021-22. Each of their last three Premier League campaigns have ended in relegation - 2013-14, 2018-19 and 2020-21.
Marco Silva will be hoping for a different result this year.
Fulham vs Liverpool
Liverpool finished second in the last season’s top flight, scoring 94 goals, their second-highest total in the Premier League. They are unbeaten in their last 19 Premier League games - 16 wins, three draws - a run stretching back to last December.
Fulham vs Liverpool line-ups
Fulham XI: Rodak, Tete, Tosin, Ream, Robinson, Paulhinha, Reed, Pereira, Kebano, Mitrovic, Decordova-Reid
Liverpool XI: Alisson, Alexander-Arnold, Matip, Van Dijk, Robertson, Fabinho, Thiago, Henderson, Salah, Díaz, Firmino
Martin Tyler criticised after appearing to link Hillsborough disaster to football ‘hooligan’ incidents
Sky Sports commentator Martin Tyler has been widely criticised after appearing to link the Hillsborough disaster with “other hooligan-related issues” while speaking on BBC Radio .
A total of 97 supporters died as a result of the crush which occured at the Sheffield Wednesday stadium after attending an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on 15 April, 1989.
The 1990 Taylor Report investigating the tragedy ruled that a failure of crowd control by South Yorkshire Police (SYP) was the primary reason for the deaths, while a coroner inquest between 2014 and 2016 ruled those supporters were unlawfully killed and that fans’ behaviour had no contribution to the disaster.
Martin Tyler criticised for appearing to link Hillsborough to ‘hooligan’ incidents
BBC radio failed to challenge the commentator’s words during a radio interview
How will Fulham fare in their first match back in the Prem?
Fulham have returned to the top-flight, this is the last goal they scored in the Premier League:
Jurgen Klopp puts Mohamed Salah drop in form down to Afcon disappointment
Jurgen Klopp believes Mohamed Salah’s goals dried up at the end of last season because he was drained by Egypt’s defeat in the African Cup of Nations final.
Salah scored 31 goals in a season when he was named PFA Player of the Year and Footballer of the Year, but only three came in his final 16 appearances.
Klopp thinks the forward had an incredibly intense campaign, including 51 appearances for his club, two legs of a World Cup play-off and all seven games in the African Cup of Nations, four of which went to extra time.
Jurgen Klopp puts Mohamed Salah drop in form down to Afcon disappointment
Only three of Salah’s 31 goals came in his final 16 appearances of last season
Fulham vs Liverpool
Fulham were unbeaten in both Premier League games against Liverpool in 2020-21, drawing 1-1 at home and winning 1-0 at Anfield.
But, the Cottagers have won just one of their last six Premier League home games against Liverpool - with one draw and four defeats - that victory was a 1-0 win in December 2011.
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