Jorginho’s penalty in first-half stoppage time gave Chelsea a 1-0 win at Everton, who lost Ben Godfrey to a serious injury
Both teams included two debutants, the former Burnley duo of James Tarkowski and Dwight McNeil for Everton, Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly for Chelsea, while the visitors’ new £62m recruit, Marc Cucurella, started on the bench. Ben Chilwell occupied the left wing-back role on his first start since suffering a serious knee injury against Juventus nine months ago.
His loose ball went a yard out of play before Pickford cleared it straight to Kai Havertz. The assistant referee’s flag stayed down, the referee, Craig Pawson, allowed play to continue, and in his attempts to make amends Godfrey launched himself into a hard but clean challenge on the Chelsea striker.
Mason Holgate, Godfrey’s replacement, produced a timely intervention. Sterling thought he had broken the deadlock shortly before the interval when Pickford spilled a shot from N’Golo Kanté and the new signing converted the rebound. His celebrations were curtailed by a correct offside call.
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