Chelsea vs Everton injury news: John Terry on the bench again with Romelu Lukaku starting against former club
Ronald Koeman without stars including Leighton Baines and Maarten Stekelenburg as well as suspended Idrissa Gueye
KURT ZOUMA and Cesc Fabregas have been left out of the squad to face Everton
The youngster played 60 minutes for Chelsea’s reserves on Monday night after recovering from a knee ligament injury sustained almost 10 months ago and was joined by fellow crock Marco van Ginkel – although the Dutchman has not been registered to play in the Premier League.
Antonio Conte will instead keep faith with the back-three of David Luiz, Cesar Azpilicueta and Gary Cahill after the trio failed to concede a single goal throughout the whole of October.
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Fabregas still has an injured thigh and his future at Stamford Bridge remains unclear after dropping behind N’Golo Kante and Nemanja Matic in the midfield pecking order.
Meanwhile, Everton are set to continue without Maarten Stekelenburg between the sticks after the keeper picked up a foot injury.
Leighton Baines remains an absentee with a dodgy hamstring, with Muhamed Besic and Darron Gibson also missing out as Idrissa Gueye serves a one-match ban after picking up five yellow cards.
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Everton team to face Chelsea: Stekelenburg, Coleman, Jagielka, Williams, Funes Mori, Oviedo, Barry, Cleverley, Barkley, Bolasie, Lukaku.
Stats
- Chelsea are unbeaten in their last 21 home Premier League games against Everton since a 0-1 loss in November 1994 (W11 D10). Only against Tottenham (24) are they on a longer unbeaten Premier League run at Stamford Bridge.
- Indeed, Everton's run of 21 games without a win is their longest away at another club in the Premier League. Only against Leeds (36) have they had a longer away run without a win in league history.
- John Terry rescued a point for Chelsea in this exact fixture last season, scoring after 97:53 minutes to make it 3-3 - the latest goal recorded in the Premier League in 2015-16.
- Everton have scored exactly three goals in three of their last four Premier League meetings with Chelsea, failing to score in the other (W1 D1 L2).
- Chelsea have exactly double the number of points (22) that they had after 10 Premier League games last season (11).
- Everton have lost six of their last 11 Premier League away games (W2 D3) after losing just one of their previous 14 on the road in the competition (W6 D7).
- Chelsea have kept four consecutive Premier League clean sheets for the first time since August 2010 (a run of six).
- Yannick Bolasie has assisted four goals for Romelu Lukaku this season, which is more than any other player for a single team-mate in the Premier League this season.
- Only Spurs (5) have conceded fewer Premier League goals this season than Everton (8) and only once in the competition have the Toffees shipped fewer goals after 10 games (six in 1998/99).
- Diego Costa has scored three goals and assisted one more in his three Premier League games against Everton. He was also sent off in the FA Cup game against the Toffees last season, however.
- Diego Costa has now scored 40 goals in the Premier League and was the 6th quickest player to reach this tally in the competition (64 apps).
- Eden Hazard has scored more Premier League goals this season (five in 10 apps) than he managed in the whole of 2015-16 (four in 31 apps).
- Belgian forward Hazard has scored in three consecutive Premier League games for the first time in his career. In fact, he has never scored in four successive league games before (Premier League and Ligue 1 combined).