Game preview: Home fans have high hopes when Chelsea receive Everton

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Competition: England Premier League
Competition: Thu 16.December
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stamford Bridge (41798 seats)

There's seemingly a notable gulf in performance between these sides based on the matches played so far, with Chelsea leading Everton by 18 points.

Insights:
  • Chelsea have the most scored goals (21) at home in Premier League
  • Everton have the most points from losing position (10) in Premier League

The visiting Everton played their last game only four days ago, a Premier League match. That game was also an away game, at Crystal Palace. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Chelsea form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stamford Bridge as Chelsea have scored 21 goals to get 17 points from 8 games. The overall stats in the Premier League are 5-2-1 (wins-draws-losses).

The Chelsea supporters enjoyed the previous match, watching their team host Leeds United in Premier League and win 3-2. A late climax in the match against Leeds United as the winning goal came four minutes into overtime; scored by Jorginho. Jorginho (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.21/10. Jorginho scored two goals, hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 46 successful passes (of 54 total).

A 3-3 draw away in the Champions League before that, with Zenit the opponent.

Chelsea are traveling soon after this match as the Premier League match at Wolverhampton Wanderers awaits in three days.

Chelsea are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Stamford Bridge in their league games, having scored an impressive 21 goals in 8 matches. From these home matches, Chelsea have conceded only 6 goals. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Everton form and stats

There's been little loot from Everton's travels as they have only collected 5 points from 8 away games in the Premier League. Everton only have 1 win to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws. Bitter travels for Everton as they have lost four games in a row away from home. The last time they avoided an away-from-home loss was the Manchester United match.

Everton lost away at Crystal Palace (1-3) in their previous game and are perhaps starting to feel homesick. Defender Ben Godfrey was the best team player with a rating of 7.2. Godfrey hit one key pass and won 8 of 11 duels.

That result followed a home victory 2-1 versus Arsenal.

With the host team identified as having a victory chance of approximately 80% by the bookmakers, any useful result for the away team would be unexpected. Checking earlier games with similar odds and Everton as the away side, we found one results. The numbers from these were zero away wins, zero draws and one defeat. The outsiders lost one of these fixtures by at least two goals.

The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Leicester City in just three days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Everton as they have only managed to score 7 times from 8 away games in the league. As for defending, Everton rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: five - two - three (Chelsea wins - draws - Everton wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), six had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

ChelseaM. Mount
M. Mount
6 goals
EvertonD. Gray
D. Gray
5 goals
ChelseaR. James
R. James
4 goals

Chelsea missing players

Everton missing players

Chelsea Everton
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 8 4 Played P 2 8 16
11 5 3 Won W 0 1 5
3 2 1 Drew D 1 2 3
2 1 0 Lost L 1 5 8
38 21 14 Scored S 1 7 20
11 6 4 Conceded C 4 15 28
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
88% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 81%
62% 62% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 62% 62%
25% 38% 75% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 25% 38%
19% 25% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 12%
44% 50% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 50% 56%
50% 38% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 12% 19%
6% 12% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 38% 31%
 
6.4 7.4 7.8 Corners for (avg) C F 1 3 3.8
4.7 4.2 1.5 Corners against (avg) C A 8.5 6.1 6.1
1.4 1.2 1 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.9 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
16.1 17.5 21.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 12.2 12.2
6 6.4 8.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 4.2 3.9
40% 41% 40% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 21% 32%
 
9.6 8 6.2 Shots against (avg) S A 15 13.6 12.6
3.6 2.9 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6.5 4.4 4.3
Key stats in Premier League this season:
  • Chelsea have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Chelsea have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Everton have scored away.
  • Chelsea have the most scored goals (21) at home in Premier League
  • Chelsea haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Everton have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Everton have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Everton have the most points from losing position (10) in Premier League
  • Everton have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Everton haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Manchester City 16 12 2 2 33 9 8 6 1 1 18 3 8 6 1 1 15 6 24 38
2 Liverpool 16 11 4 1 45 12 8 5 3 0 19 5 8 6 1 1 26 7 33 37
3 Chelsea 16 11 3 2 38 11 8 5 2 1 21 6 8 6 1 1 17 5 27 36
4 West Ham United 16 8 4 4 28 19 8 4 2 2 16 12 8 4 2 2 12 7 9 28
5 Manchester United 16 8 3 5 26 24 8 4 1 3 14 13 8 4 2 2 12 11 2 27
6 Arsenal 16 8 2 6 21 22 8 6 1 1 15 6 8 2 1 5 6 16 -1 26
7 Tottenham Hotspur 14 8 1 5 16 17 8 6 0 2 11 8 6 2 1 3 5 9 -1 25
8 Leicester City 16 6 4 6 27 27 8 4 1 3 15 12 8 2 3 3 12 15 0 22
9 Wolverhampton Wanderers 16 6 3 7 12 14 8 3 1 4 5 7 8 3 2 3 7 7 -2 21
10 Brentford 16 5 5 6 21 22 8 3 1 4 10 10 8 2 4 2 11 12 -1 20
11 Brighton & Hove Albion 15 4 8 3 14 16 7 2 3 2 6 8 8 2 5 1 8 8 -2 20
12 Crystal Palace 16 4 7 5 22 22 8 3 4 1 13 7 8 1 3 4 9 15 0 19
13 Aston Villa 16 6 1 9 21 25 8 4 1 3 14 11 8 2 0 6 7 14 -4 19
14 Everton 16 5 3 8 20 28 8 4 1 3 13 13 8 1 2 5 7 15 -8 18
15 Leeds United 16 3 7 6 17 25 8 2 4 2 9 11 8 1 3 4 8 14 -8 16
16 Southampton 16 3 7 6 14 24 8 2 5 1 8 7 8 1 2 5 6 17 -10 16
17 Watford 16 4 1 11 21 31 8 2 1 5 10 17 8 2 0 6 11 14 -10 13
18 Burnley 15 1 8 6 14 21 7 1 4 2 8 8 8 0 4 4 6 13 -7 11
19 Newcastle United 16 1 7 8 17 34 8 1 4 3 12 17 8 0 3 5 5 17 -17 10
20 Norwich City 16 2 4 10 8 32 8 1 2 5 5 12 8 1 2 5 3 20 -24 10

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