Everton faces Chelsea on Sunday the 3rd November at Goodison Park with a 6:45 kick off. Everton who haven’t won a league match yet this season are playing the unbeaten (after 4 fixtures) Chelsea.
At the start of this season, Everton have struggled with an injury crisis. With Elise Stenevik out until Christmas with a tendon hamstring injury, and both Aurora Galli, a crucial player in Everton’s play for the last 3 seasons, and Inma Gabaroo, who just signed for Everton this season, have sustained an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injury. This has left them in a unstable place, resulting in them being 11th in the table and only on 2 points.
Chelsea are fighting strong in both the Women’s Super League and also the Women’s Champions League. How good this seems, there also are the negatives. Before the International break, Chelsea’s clash against Manchester United had to be moved due to player welfare worries, with players having to play matches 2 days apart if this went ahead. This has been continually brought up as a concern by players and staff of all clubs and countries with matches becoming more often and close together. This may result in seeing players who don’t always play perform this weekend.
In the last match before the international break, Everton played Leicester resulting in a 1-0 defeat. From Everton’s view, this would have been a game they would have hoped for at least a draw in. This may make the team morale low, however they could use this as motivation going into this fixture. Chelsea faced Tottenham in a thrilling 5-2 win, with Johanna Rytting-Kaneryd getting player of the match and one of her two goals won goal of the month. She is most definitely a player that Everton need to contain during this match. Chelsea have conceded 6 goals so far this season throughout all competitions, they will be cautious of this. However, this will also make Everton switched on throughout the whole match as one mistake gives a very clinical Chelsea a opportunity to score.
The clear favourites are Chelsea, the last time this fixture was played in league the match ended as a 3-0 win to Chelsea. The last 5 times these teams met Chelsea won all five, with Everton only scoring 1 goal and Chelsea scoring 17. This is a great opportunity for Chelsea to get their goal difference up, as last season before the final game Chelsea were in fear of the season finishing on goal difference, showing how close the top teams really are.
This fixture is able to be watched on Sky Sports Football and Sky Sports Premier League with coverage from 6:30. Tickets are still available for this fixture from the Everton FC website starting from £2.
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