Pre-Match Thread: Everton - Chelsea - Premier League
EvertonvsChelsea FC
Matchday 19
23 December 2017
Kick Off: 12:30 GMT / 7:30 EST / 04:30 PST
Head-to-head
- Everton have beaten Chelsea just once in the last eight Premier League meetings (D1, L6).
- The Blues have won their last three league meetings with Everton by an aggregate score of 10-0.
- Chelsea have already beaten the Toffees three times in 2017 - the only side they've beaten four times in a calendar year was Crystal Palace in 1990.
- However, the Toffees have won five of their last eight home league fixtures against Chelsea, losing three.
Chelsea
- The Blues have lost just one of their last 10 Premier League games (W8, D1).
- However, they are eight points worse off than at this stage last season, when they led the league with 46 points.
- They are the only club not to have conceded a Premier League goal from a corner this season.
- Cesc Fabregas has three goals and four assists in his last five Premier League appearances at Goodison Park.
- Fabregas is one goal short of becoming the third Spaniard to score 50 times in the Premier League.
Everton
- Everton have won four of their last five league games, drawing the other, after just three wins from their previous 13 matches (D3, L7).
- They have kept three clean sheets in those unbeaten five league matches.
- The Toffees have scored a club record 47 Premier League goals at Goodison Park in 2017. Only Manchester City, with 52, have more home goals this year.
- Sam Allardyce - who has won his last two encounters with Chelsea - could become the first Premier League manager to beat Chelsea in charge of five different clubs.
- Wayne Rooney has 10 goals in 16 league games this season. It's the quickest he has reached double figures since 2011-12.
- Gylfi Sigurdsson could make his 200th Premier League appearance this weekend.
Chelsea
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Chelsea's Alvaro Morata is banned as he received a fifth booking of the season when celebrating his late winner in the League Cup against Bournemouth.
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Belgian Michy Batshuayi could deputise up front, while defender David Luiz is still out with a knee injury.
Everton
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Everton manager Sam Allardyce could name the same side that beat Swansea 3-1 on Monday night.
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Winger Yannick Bolasie may return to the squad after over a year out, while Leighton Baines remains sidelined.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^2 | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^2 |
|---|---|
| Everton | W W D W W |
| Chelsea | W D L W W |
| POS | CLUB | P | GD | PTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man City | 18 | 44 | 52 |
| 2 | Man Utd | 18 | 27 | 41 |
| 3 | Chelsea | 18 | 18 | 38 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 18 | 18 | 34 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 18 | 11 | 33 |
Posted Dec 22, 2017, 2:37 AM UTC
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