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Chelsea 4-1 Everton

David Moyes decided to selected Kevin Campbell, Tomasz Radzinski and Wayne Rooney all together in his starting line-up.

Chelsea dominated the entire 90 minutes, and looked by far the greater side, two goals apiece, one each in both halves, from Emmanuel Petit and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink condemned Everton, with Gary Naysmith’s late goal nothing more than a consolation.

Evertons only real chance fell to Mark Pembridge 14 minutes in, were he fired his shot wide.

The opener came on the 26th minute, when in-form Gianfranco Zola played a delicious pass into the path of Hasselbaink, who steered the ball past Richard Wright. From here it was down hill for Everton.

A minute before the break, Petit escaped the entire Everton rearguard and volleyed a crisp finish into the net.

Not long into the second half, Radzinski tested Carlo Cudicini, with a half decent effort from 13 yards.

Chelsea soon ended any hope of a comeback with two goals in a minute.

In the 69th minute Stanic headed home from close-range and then Hasselbaink nipped infield from a wide position and rifled a fine shot past Wright.

Eleven minutes from time the Blues were awarded a penalty, but Rooney’s spot-kick was saved and put out for a corner.

The consolation did come from the resulting centre when Gary Naysmith poked the ball into Cudicini’s net, but unfortunately it was by far too little, too late from the visitors.

David Moyes later said...

“Chelsea are a good team, they’re in good form and we know what we’re up against on Saturday now. We’ve seen lots there, but we knew about that already, but it will be different at Goodison on Saturday.”

Everton will now prepare to face the Chelsea again on Saturday, this time though, it will be at a differant time, a differant place... and hopefully a differant scoreline.