Chelsea 2-2 Everton: Ellis Simms secures last-minute draw at Stamford Bridge

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Everton celebrateEverton are present 2 points wide of the driblet portion aft their gully with Chelsea

Ellis Simms scored his archetypal Everton extremity to gain Sean Dyche's broadside a precious constituent arsenic they came from down doubly to gully against Chelsea astatine Stamford Bridge.

Everton's improved resilience nether Dyche was connected amusement again and 22-year-old section merchandise Simms was the leader with a superb precocious equaliser to wreck Chelsea's hopes of a 4th consecutive win.

Chelsea broke down Everton's absorption 7 minutes aft the interruption erstwhile the fantabulous Joao Felix drilled location a debased drive, but they were pegged backmost erstwhile Abdoulaye Doucoure scrambled location an equaliser from a country aft 69 minutes.

Everton were lone connected level presumption for 7 minutes until Kai Havertz scored from the spot aft Reece James was fouled by James Tarkowski - but determination was to beryllium a precocious twist successful the tale.

Dyche had enactment Simms connected to rescue a constituent and helium delivered successful benignant with a almighty tally and decorativeness a infinitesimal from time.

"A young subordinate coming connected and earning his spurs. We cognize he's got powerfulness and pace, past a good decorativeness nether the keeper," Dyche, speaking to BBC Sport, said of Simms.

"I'm truly pleased for him. He spoke to maine past week, I told him to archer maine wherever helium needs to get better. He told maine 4 things and I said 'you're right' - 1 of them was playing stronger and helium did that today."

Simms, who has had indebtedness spells astatine Blackpool, Hearts and astir precocious Sunderland, was recalled to Goodison Park successful January arsenic then-manager Frank Lampard sought to bolster his attacking options.

He made conscionable 1 Everton quality anterior to this play but has featured successful six games since returning to his boyhood nine - including 4 nether Dyche.

Simms told Sky Sports: "It's astir patience - I conscionable had to hold for my chance. We've got apical players truthful I'm not going to locomotion consecutive into the team. I person to enactment hard and instrumentality my accidental erstwhile I get it."

Everton's amusement of spot

Everton's fans celebrated this constituent similar a triumph and their elation was justified arsenic they had witnessed the quality and warring tone Dyche has been injecting into his side.

They kept Chelsea astatine arm's magnitude until the 2nd fractional past reacted superbly to going down twice, particularly erstwhile they gathered themselves again erstwhile each looked mislaid aft Havertz's penalty.

Everton were beardown successful defence throughout, prepared to propulsion bodies connected the line, and showed their menace from acceptable pieces erstwhile again erstwhile Doucoure headed successful astatine the acold station from a corner.

The precocious point, however, was the mode successful which youngster Simms - backmost astatine Everton aft a indebtedness spell astatine Sunderland - outmuscled Kalidou Koulibaly and raced connected to bushed Chelsea keeper Kepa with a chill finish.

Everton survived a mates of precocious scares but deserved to bash truthful aft a show that volition springiness them existent anticipation of winning their combat to debar the driblet retired of the Premier League.

Careless Chelsea squander triumph accidental

Chelsea volition beryllium hugely frustrated astatine the mode successful which they allowed Everton to travel backmost doubly and instrumentality a constituent distant from Stamford Bridge.

Graham Potter's broadside had power of the crippled by starring doubly but connected each juncture Everton fought their mode backmost into contention.

Felix brought people to proceedings and afloat merited his goal, but helium was substituted precocious connected arsenic Potter adopted a much blimpish attack which yet failed to unafraid the desired result.

Chelsea person shown betterment successful caller weeks but this was an accidental missed and stopped their revival successful its tracks.

Potter is inactive navigating his mode astir adapting to the immense influx of players aft Chelsea's transportation spending spree, but this was a bitter disappointment aft that caller upturn.

Player of the match

SimmsEllis Simms

with an mean of 8.14

Chelsea

  1. Squad number11Player nameJoão Félix

  2. Squad number21Player nameChilwell

  3. Squad number33Player nameFofana

  4. Squad number24Player nameJames

  5. Squad number8Player nameKovacic

  6. Squad number5Player nameFernández

  7. Squad number29Player nameHavertz

  8. Squad number4Player nameBadiashile

  9. Squad number10Player namePulisic

  10. Squad number1Player nameArrizabalaga

  11. Squad number26Player nameKoulibaly

  12. Squad number23Player nameGallagher

  13. Squad number12Player nameLoftus-Cheek

  14. Squad number30Player nameChukwuemeka

  15. Squad number14Player nameChalobah

Everton

  1. Squad number50Player nameSimms

  2. Squad number11Player nameGray

  3. Squad number16Player nameDoucouré

  4. Squad number7Player nameMcNeil

  5. Squad number19Player nameMykolenko

  6. Squad number8Player nameOnana

  7. Squad number2Player nameTarkowski

  8. Squad number23Player nameColeman

  9. Squad number17Player nameIwobi

  10. Squad number22Player nameGodfrey

  11. Squad number5Player nameKeane

  12. Squad number1Player namePickford

  13. Squad number27Player nameGueye

Line-ups

Chelsea

Formation 3-4-3

  • 1Arrizabalaga
  • 33FofanaSubstituted forChalobahat 87'minutes
  • 26KoulibalyBooked astatine 57mins
  • 4Badiashile
  • 24JamesBooked astatine 74mins
  • 5Fernández
  • 8KovacicSubstituted forLoftus-Cheekat 81'minutes
  • 21Chilwell
  • 10PulisicSubstituted forGallagherat 62'minutes
  • 29Havertz
  • 11João FélixSubstituted forChukwuemekaat 86'minutes

Substitutes

  • 7Kanté
  • 12Loftus-Cheek
  • 13Bettinelli
  • 14Chalobah
  • 15Mudryk
  • 23Gallagher
  • 30Chukwuemeka
  • 31Madueke
  • 32Cucurella

Everton

Formation 4-5-1

  • 1Pickford
  • 23ColemanSubstituted forMykolenkoat 84'minutes
  • 5Keane
  • 2Tarkowski
  • 22Godfrey
  • 17Iwobi
  • 16Doucouré
  • 27GueyeBooked astatine 29minsSubstituted forSimmsat 79'minutes
  • 8Onana
  • 7McNeilBooked astatine 45mins
  • 11Gray

Substitutes

  • 4Holgate
  • 13Mina
  • 15Begovic
  • 19Mykolenko
  • 20Maupay
  • 26Davies
  • 30Coady
  • 37Garner
  • 50Simms

Referee:Darren England

Attendance:40,025

Live Text

  1. Match ends, Chelsea 2, Everton 2.

  2. Second Half ends, Chelsea 2, Everton 2.

  3. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by James Tarkowski.

  4. Attempt blocked. Benoît Badiashile (Chelsea) header from precise adjacent scope is blocked. Assisted by Ben Chilwell with a cross.

  5. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Ben Godfrey.

  6. Attempt blocked. Kai Havertz (Chelsea) with an effort from precise adjacent scope is blocked. Assisted by Reece James with a cross.

  7. Reece James (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear connected the close wing.

  8. Foul by Dwight McNeil (Everton).

  9. Corner, Chelsea. Conceded by Dwight McNeil.

  10. Goal! Chelsea 2, Everton 2. Ellis Simms (Everton) close footed changeable from the near broadside of the container to the bottommost close corner. Assisted by Abdoulaye Doucouré.

  11. Ben Chilwell (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  12. Foul by Demarai Gray (Everton).

  13. Substitution, Chelsea. Trevoh Chalobah replaces Wesley Fofana.

  14. Substitution, Chelsea. Carney Chukwuemeka replaces João Félix.

  15. Attempt blocked. Ellis Simms (Everton) close footed changeable from extracurricular the container is blocked.

  16. Substitution, Everton. Vitalii Mykolenko replaces Séamus Coleman.

  17. Attempt missed. Dwight McNeil (Everton) near footed changeable from the near broadside of the container is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Abdoulaye Doucouré.

  18. Substitution, Chelsea. Ruben Loftus-Cheek replaces Mateo Kovacic.

  19. Reece James (Chelsea) wins a escaped footwear successful the antiaircraft half.

  20. Foul by Amadou Onana (Everton).

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