Abdoulaye Doucoure scored in his 100th Premier League game for Everton on Sunday, and substitute Lewis Dobbin added a late second goal to secure a 2-0 victory over Chelsea, causing the mid-table London team to suffer its third straight away loss.
On minute 54, Dwight McNeil broke forward with the ball and found Dominic Calvert-Lewin with a pass. Robert Sanchez, the Chelsea goalkeeper, turned away the one-on-one opportunity, but Doucoure fired the rebound into the far corner of the net.
Academy product Dobbin scored his first goal in an Everton shirt when he thrashed home a loose ball from a corner in injury time to seal the three points.
Chelsea slip to 12th in the table with 19 points from 16 games, while Everton have 13 points from 16 games. Without their 10-point deduction for financial breaches, against which they have appealed, Everton would be in 10th, four points ahead of Chelsea.
The visitors dominated possession and spent much of the game in the Everton half but lacked a clinical touch in the home side’s box, while there was some excellent scrambling defence from the Merseysiders who have now won three Premier League games in a row for the first time since March 2021.