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		</div><p>Chelsea’s hopes of a top-four finish were dented as Everton finally ended a 25-match run without a win against a top-six side with a 2-0 victory.</p>
<p>The Toffees’ record against the Premier League’s established powerbase is poor with their last success over one of them being a 4-0 hammering of Manchester City in January 2017.</p>
<p>On the evidence of their opening 45 minutes, it never looked likely they would end that sequence but capitalised after the visitors failed to take advantage of their early dominance.</p>
<p>The one constant Everton have shown this season is just how inconsistent they are and that flaw was encapsulated within the space of 90 minutes.</p>
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<p>Woeful and timid in a first half in which the visitors should have pressed home their advantage, they returned after the break a different side with goals from their joint Premier League top scorers Richarlison and Gylfi Sigurdsson, who now both have 12.</p>
<p>By contrast, Chelsea’s two best performers Eden Hazard and Ross Barkley – one of seven changes from Thursday’s Europa League victory over Dynamo Kiev – faded in the second half.</p>
<p>Barkley was making his first appearance at Goodison Park since May 2017 and his every touch was booed following his acrimonious departure the following January having not played a match in the season because of injury.</p>
<p>He and Hazard dictated most of the first-half play which saw the Belgium international twice threaten: Jordan Pickford saving one effort and watching a second rebound off a post.</p>
<p>Everton played like a team who had one home league win since November, concentrating on containment rather then creativity and lacking in intensity, and it allowed the visitors to control the game.</p>
<p>Jorginho, Gonzalo Higuain and Pedro all had half-chances but, incredibly, the best opportunity fell to Dominic Calvert-Lewin who should have scored with an unmarked header eight yards out just before the break.</p>
<p>Everton came out after the interval a different side and the positivity which was so lacking in the first half paid off within four minutes.</p>
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<p>Calvert-Lewin’s downward header at a corner was parried by Kepa Arrizabalaga but Richarlison reacted quickest to nod home the rebound – Everton’s first league goal against Chelsea since January 2016.</p>
<p>Pickford, criticised for his role in the defeat at Newcastle last week, threw himself to his left to brilliantly save Higuain’s deflected half-volley.</p>
<p>Chelsea boss Maurizio Sarri made a double change with Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Olivier Giroud replacing Barkley, much to Goodison’s delight, and Higuain.</p>
<p>However, it did little to change the momentum with Hazard now a peripheral figure and – 18 minutes from time – the hosts delivered the killer blow when Marcos Alonso brought down Richarlison and Sigurdsson scored with a rebounded penalty after Kepa saved his initial effort.</p>
<p>Chelsea remain three points behind fourth-placed Arsenal and still have to go to Liverpool and Manchester United.</p>
<p>With the teams above them in better form, winning the Europa League – with Chelsea in the quarter-finals and on the easier side of the draw – may now be their best chance of securing Champions League football this season.</p>
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