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.
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