Chelsea defeated the visiting Everton side at home as hostility ensued at the weekend. It was one of the most inspiring games of the week along with the Manchester Derby match between the Manchester United and Manchester City side.
The Blues triumph would be accounted to the whole team performance while acknowledging the quartet of Mason Mount, Pedro Rodriguez, William and forward Olivier Giroud for providing the four goals in the entire game.
This left the Toffees well beaten as they look forward to next week fixture for redemption.
With all said and done as regards to Chelsea 4-0 win, we evaluate the interesting match features and statistical analysis as is observed from the game.
Shots on target:
Chelsea – 10
Everton – 1
The match statistics shows clearly where the attacking strength lies as Chelsea dominated proceeding on this regard.
With 11 shots on target recorded in the game, Frank Lampard’s guns had 10 shots on goal leaving Everton with only 1 shot and themselves to blame in the defeat.
Shots off target:
Chelsea – 2
Everton – 1
The match culminated into only about 3 shots on goal in the contest. This got Chelsea record 2 shots off target compared to Everton’s one shot off target. This is due to Chelsea’s increase attacking threat down the Everton area.
Possession:
Chelsea – 61%
Everton – 39%
The match was an intriguing contest irrespective of the fact that Chelsea dominate the match in essence.
Everton did their best but it wasn’t good enough as they struggled to cope with Chelsea’s quality in the central areas.
This saw the Blues a mess 61% of the ball to Everton’s 39% of the ball.
Corners:
Chelsea – 6
Everton – 1
Following an interesting match between Chelsea and Everton, a lot was
triggered in the 90 minutes duration. Chelsea’s dominance saw them culminate about 6 corner-kicks while Everton had only 1 corner in the game.
This was due to the Chelsea overall superiority as it was indicated
from the match stats above.
Offsides:
Chelsea – 0
Everton – 1
In the entire 90 minutes only one offside was recorded as Chelsea and Everton faced each other.
It was the visitors that was flagged offside once as they sought to find their way back into the game. The Blues kept their cool thus
scoring goals as they won 4-0.
Fouls:
Chelsea – 8
Everton – 10
The match produced a total of about 18 fouls in the entire contest. This saw Everton record 10 fouls as compared to Chelsea’s 8 fouls.
This was due to the increased physical challenge Everton committed due to their lack of ball possession in the game.
Chelsea were guilty as well despite their dominance in the game as a whole.
Goal Kick:
Chelsea – 7
Everton – 2
Chelsea and Everton produced attacking threat at both ends of the pitch. This saw about 11 goal-kick in the contest.
This got Everton record 4 goal-kick as compared to Chelsea 7
goal-kicks in the entire game.
