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Chelsea v Everton: Premier League – live!
Updates from the 2.15pm kick off Stamford Bridge Live scores: all the goals as they go in across EuropeEmail Daniel here. Tweet @DanielHarris 1.54pm GMT Jamie Carragher is talking about Ngolo Kante, and I wonder how long he’s got in this team. He’s a good player, but there are just better players than him who play in the position that Sarri sticks him in, and Sarri prefers a passer over a destroyer in front of the back four. So do I, he’ll be relieved to know. 1.50pm GMT “I fell off the motorbike last night so I feel like Tony Bellew in more senses than one right now,” tweets Gary Naylor. “But today is good. Turned up on the wrong Sunday for the Potter movie, so saw the Coen one instead. Very good it was too!”Richie Woodall said that Bellew had literally died on his shield. I hope you’re ok. 1.45pm GMT These tops are extremely rude.Warm-up time at the Bridge! #CHEEVE pic.twitter.com/HeL0Z6vuEy 1.44pm GMT Yeah, but who were better: Menswear or Bis? | Bainesy doing a Bainesy at Stamford Bridge! #EFC pic.twitter.com/ZxnAdC38cl 1.43pm GMT Back to Barkley, I wonder if he’s been left out of this one to avoid him trying too hard. Things didn’t go well in his last months at Everton, he’ll get stick off the away fans, and there’s more to lose from a bad performance than gain from a good one. He’s playing well at the moment, but it hasn’t been for that long - his confidence won’t yet be cemented. 1.41pm GMT Looking at these teams, there’s a lot of work for Richarlison to do. The presence of Jorginho and Kante makes it hard to see how Bernard and Walcott to affect the game, so he’ll have to hope he can find space between the centre-backs. More likely, the set-piece delivery of Sigurdsson offers Everton their most likely route to a goal, and in Mina and Keane, they have two men who can attack the ball properly. 1.32pm GMT So, Chelsea make two changes to the side which beat Palace last Supersunday: Eden Hazard forces his way back in, replacing Pedro, and Kovacic is in for Barkley who, Mauricio Sarri says, played a full game in midweek. Everton, meanwhile, have one alteration forced upon them: Kurt Zouma is ineligible, on loan as he is from Chelsea Talent Ltd, so Yerry Mina gets his spot. 1.28pm GMT Chelsea (quatro-tre-tre, stupido): Kepa; Azpilicueta, Rudiger, David Luiz, Alonso; Jorginaho, Kante, Kovacic; Willian, Morata, Hazard. Subs: Caballero, Christensen, Zappacosta, Fabregas, Barkley, Pedro, Giroud.Everton (quatro-dois-três-um, estúpido): Pickford; Coleman, Keane, Mina, Digne; Gueye, Gomes; Walcott, Sigurdsson, Bernard; Richarlison. Subs: Stekelenburg, Baines, Jagielka, Davies, Lookman, Calvert-Lewin, Tosun. 12.08pm GMT In our lives, we all have the imperative to be “good”. The problem with that – other than being “good” – is how tricky it can be to discern quite what “good” looks like. Deep, yeah.By amazing coincidence, this is a question currently taxing both of our teams this afternoon. Chelsea are close enough to the leaders to think about a title challenge, but are less enough good than Manchester City for any such thought to seem fatuous; Everton have spent loads of money to crack the fabled “top six”, but remain nowhere near the standard of any of them. Continue reading......read full article
