Heavy Defeat For Jose Mourinho’s Men: Everton 3 Chelsea 1,

Chelsea suffered a humiliating defeat against Everton

Substitute Steven Naismith became the first player to score a Premier League hat-trick against any of Jose Mourinho’s Chelsea teams as the defending champions suffered their worst start to a campaign since 1988.

Naismith also became the first Everton player to achieve the feat against Chelsea since Dixie Dean in 1931. His was perfect too: a header, one with the left foot and a third with his right.

Yet John Stones was Everton’s stand-out player here. He made marking Diego Costa look easy. Everton’s margin of victory was narrower than it should have been but they were comfortable and Chelsea, worryingly lethargic ahead of an intensely scheduled set of fixtures.

Naismith headed Everton into an early lead

The result means Chelsea continue to loiter just above the relegation zone. By this evening, they could be in it.

In another world, of course, one where Bill Kenwright submitted to temptation, Stones would have been making his Chelsea debut.

Chelsea’s protracted public summer pursuit of the defender has created antipathy from all sides. Before the game had even started, the ill feeling was clear. When asked about Stones in an interview conducted in the Main Stand’s tunnel with BT Sport, Mourinho responded by terminating the conversation abruptly. The public address system played You Can’t Buy Me Love by the Beatles, a song Evertonians have adopted, where Stones stands for love. When the teams were read out, his name was cheered the loudest.

Who dominated at Goodison Park?

The recent past meant Everton were highly motivated. On a blustery afternoon, this was one of those occasions where the visiting team’s players are made to feel like prisoners and Goodison Park portrays the charm of a medieval dungeon.

Everton were 2-0 up inside 21 minutes and the lead could have been more considerable. Naismith was meant to be sitting on the substitutes’ bench through this period but Muhamed Bešić pulled up with a hamstring injury and an early introduction was necessary.

Matic scored Chelsea's only goal of the game

It did not seem to register with Chelsea’s defence and, indeed, midfield, that Naismith was capable of scoring winning goals against them even though he did so around this time of year two seasons ago. His opener was a classic; from a delicately guided Brendan Galloway cross, Naismith stampeded into the six-yard box unmarked and flung himself into its path, forcing a header into the top corner by sheer will.

Goodison’s ancient buttresses soon shuddered again. Asmir Begović had already saved spectacularly from Arouna Koné and James McCarthy by the time Naismith struck his second from distance.

It was difficult to tell whether there was any frustration in this Chelsea team. The only reaction initially was visible through Costa, who swatted his forearm across Seamus Coleman’s face and was fortunate not to get sent off.

Naismith celebrates with his team-mates

It was embarrassingly easy for Everton and Chelsea needed something extraordinary to happen for the flow to alter. Their response came out of nothing: Nemanja Matić rifling a glorious goal at the Gwladys Street end from 30-yards.

Curiously, considering what had gone before, Chelsea could have been ahead by half-time. There was an Eden Hazard shot that took a huge deflection and removed Tim Howard from the game that bobbled just wide and a John Terry header that lacked the direction for an equaliser at least.

That moment would never arrive. Chelsea were just as bad in the second half and Everton, just as committed and the result was made secure seven minutes before the end when Naismith seized on Ross Barkley’s pass to inflict the ultimate punishment.

Source: Telegraph

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