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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FT Fulham 2-2 Liverpool
Liverpool twice came from behind to rescue a point against an exceptional Fulham side. They picked right up where they left off in the Championship last season and get their first points on the board in the Premier League.
Aleksandar Mitrovic scored twice for the home side and Liverpool’s new striker Darwin Nunez opened his account before the ever dependable Mo Salah earned the Reds a point.
Full-time: Fulham 2-2 Liverpool
90+5 mins: Off the bar!
Jordan Henderson almost seals the game for the Reds with a glorious strike from outside the box. He smokes it well and Rodak is beaten. Fulham are saved by the crossbar as the ball doesn’t dip enough.
The whistle goes for full-time and the points are shared at Craven Cottage.
Fulham 2-2 Liverpool
90+3 mins: Alexander-Arnold throws the ball into the box and tries to play in Mo Salah. Fulham clear the ball up to Aleksandar Mitrovic who holds it up brilliantly then goes down with cramp.
He’s fine but is going through the motions of time-wasting to get his team closer to the finish.
Fulham 2-2 Liverpool
90 mins: Five minutes of added time to play. That seems quite excessive.
Fulham 2-2 Liverpool
87 mins: Fulham look like they’re feeling it now though. They’re trying to slow the game down when in possession and Andreas Pereira takes his time to get off the pitch as Tom Cairney is brought on.
At the very least Fulham deserve a point from this game. They’ve been great.
Fulham 2-2 Liverpool
84 mins: Can one of these teams push for a winning goal now? Fulham don’t deserve to lose but Liverpool have turned these types of games into victories over the last couple of seasons.
Six minutes plus stoppage time to play.
GOAL! Fulham 2-2 Liverpool (81’, Salah)⚽️
81 mins: Mo Salah! He scores again on the opening match of the season.
Trent Alexander-Arnold swings a long cross into the box from the right side and the ball is flicked on by Tim Ream before bouncing up to Darwin Nunez. He chests it down and the ball rolls back to the Egyptian who taps it home to bring Liverpool back on level terms again.
Fulham 2-1 Liverpool
80 mins: Alexander-Arnold swings a corner into the box for Liverpool but Antonee Robinson is there to head it away. The ball drops to Carvalho who drills a first time shot at goal and punts it narrowly over the crossbar.
Fulham 2-1 Liverpool
78 mins: Fabio Carvalho - a key man for Fulham during their Championship game last season - is brought on to replace Luis Diaz for his Liverpool debut.
Elliott picks out Salah who lays the ball off to Alexander-Arnold. The right-back flicks the ball into the where Milner has made the run but Reed beats him to the ball and heads it clear.
Fulham 2-1 Liverpool
75 mins: Liverpool when the team who recovered the most points from losing positions last season and they’ll need to do so again today.
Fulham have been great, they deserve their lead and have just 15 minutes left to play to close out what will be an incredible victory.
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