Everton have nine of their ten points back already. Sean Dyche’s defiant team made it a hat-trick of Premier League victories, Everton’s first since the days of Carlo Ancelotti in March 2021, with another impressive display to deepen Mauricio Pochettino’s problems at Chelsea.
The expensively-assembled visitors were again found wanting in front of goal, and in terms of character, as they succumbed to a seventh league defeat of the season courtesy of Abdoulaye Doucouré’s latest goal and substitute Lewis Dobbin’s first for the club.