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.
Follow all the latest reaction from Goodison Park:
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
45+6 mins: Sterling looks to shift the ball away from Tarkowski and slips as he tries to spin around the defender. He goes down and the referee awards Chelsea a free kick in the middle of the pitch leaving Tarkowski with a bemused look on his face.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
45+3 mins: Another Chelsea corner is whipped in but this time from the right side. The initial ball is headed out to Reece James who toe pokes a shot back towards goal and wins another corner when the ball is blocked behind.
Can Everton get into the break on level terms?
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
45 mins: Eight minutes of added time still to play in the first half due to the injury to Ben Godfrey earlier on. Still nothing to separate the sides.
Everton are giving it a good go.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
43 mins: Disallowed goal! Raheem Sterling is denied a goal on his Chelsea debut by the offside flag. Reece James plays the ball inside from the right wing and finds N’Golo Kante who shoots.
Jordan Pickford fumbles his save and knocks it back into the box for Sterling to guide home.
It’s a clear offside though and the goal is chalked off.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
41 mins: Raheem Sterling runs at Yerry Mina before the ball comes loose to Mason Mount on the edge of the box. He boots one at goal but James Tarkowski is in the way and blocks it.
The deflection sends the ball up the pitch where Everton look to counter quickly down the inside left channel. Thiago Silva is switched on though and cuts across to recover the ball with an interception.
Great defending.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
38 mins: Close! Anthony Gordon dribbles his way to the byline on the right side of Chelsea’s box and cuts the ball back into the middle for Abdoulaye Doucoure. Koulibaly and Kante combine to shut him out before the ball reaches him and the Blues clear the danger.
Encouraging stuff from Everton though.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
35 mins: Sterling has been a bright spark for Chelsea. He’s not afraid to take players on and as such Everton are making sure they have at least two men on him whenever he gets close to the final third.
The Toffees have been pushed back but Chelsea who are operating primarily inside the hosts half.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
32 mins: Reece James curls another free kick into the box from the right side and tries to find Kalidu Koulibaly in the penalty area. The defender attacks the cross but can’t reach it first and Everton scramble it clear.
Yerry Mina blocks a pass into the box from Kai Havertz and Chelsea win another corner.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
29 mins: N’Golo Kante goes on a driving run down the left wing and combines with Kai Havertz to get to the side of the box before he’s dispossessed.
In reply Vitalii Mykolenko has loads of space to work with as he comes down the left wing. He swings the ball in and Anthony Gordon nods it wide.
Everton 0-0 Chelsea
26 mins: Save! Everton’s corner is whipped in from the right and flies through the box before Mykolenko recovers the ball. He floats a cross back into the middle from the opposite wing and picks out James Tarkowski who powers a header at goal and forces Edouard Mendy to tip the ball over the crossbar.
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