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Last Prem Game of 06/07: Chelsea Vs Everton
| Quote: |  Stamford Bridge
Sunday, 13 May
Kick-off: 1500 BST
Coverage on the BBC Sport website, BBC Radio Five Live & highlights on Match of the Day
This will be a featured match on Sunday's Score - 1430 BST on BBCi and bbc.co.uk/score
Chelsea will be without Andriy Shevchenko, Michael Ballack, Didier Drogba, Ricardo Carvalho, Arjen Robben and Scott Sinclair for the game.
Midfielder Frank Lampard and goalkeeper Petr Cech, who were rested against Manchester United, should return.
Everton striker Andrew Johnson will miss the game as his injured ankle is unlikely to be risked.
Teenage strikers James Vaughan and Victor Anichebe are likely to continue up front in an unchanged side.
Boss Jose Mourinho wants Chelsea to equal Liverpool's unbeaten home league record:
"It will be magnificent if we can finish three whole seasons without a defeat at home.
"And if we can win the first home game of next season we can beat the record, because it is an incredible record."
Chelsea (from): Cech, Cudicini, Hilario, Geremi, Ferreira, Terry, Essien, A Cole, Bridge, Morais, Obi, Diarra, Makelele, Lampard, Kalou, Wright-Phillips, J Cole, Sahar.
Everton (from): Howard, Neville, Yobo, Stubbs, Lescott, Arteta, Carsley, Osman, Fernandes, Vaughan, Anichebe, Turner, Naysmith, Beattie, McFadden, Hibbert, Van der Meyde, De Franca, Vidarsson, Valente.
Everton boss David Moyes:
"It would be a great achievement if he could do that.
"We had a chat before Christmas about how many clean sheets he would need to keep if we wanted to qualify for Europe and he has responded brilliantly.
"We have been pleased with the way Tim has performed this season."
BIG-MATCH FACTS
CHELSEA take on Uefa Cup chasing Everton, looking to equal Liverpool's top flight record of 63 unbeaten home games, set between 25 February 1978 and 27 December 1980. Wednesday's anaemic goalless draw with newly installed champions Manchester United retained Jose Mourinho's undefeated run in League games at the Bridge. Indeed the Portuguese Blues chief has only been beaten by Benfica in the Champions League and lost to penalties to Charlton in the Carling Cup in 87 games in front of the home supporters.
During Mourinho's reign, Chelsea finished 12 and eight points clear of everyone else in winning the last two Premiership titles. This year they will trail Manchester United by 10 points at most and four points at least, depending on the results of United's home match with relegation strugglers West Ham and this 150th competitive meeting with Everton. Chelsea are currently on their longest winless League run under the current manager of four games.
The Londoners are vying for a 50th League win over Everton, and their third in a row to take an unbeaten run in League and Cup against the Toffees to 16 matches. They've scored three goals in each of the last two meetings, including this season's reverse fixture when Chelsea twice came from behind to win an entertaining match, when Didier Drogba completed the comeback with a looping 35-metre shot three minutes from time. It gives Mourinho's men the chance of a fourth Premiership 'double' over Everton, the most recent being the season before last.
EVERTON need a point to be mathematically certain of a second European campaign in three seasons. Only a comprehensive defeat and a huge win for Reading at Blackburn in which a goal difference of 11 is overhauled would deny the Toffees Uefa Cup soccer next term.
The Merseysiders travel in search of a fifth away Premiership maximum of the season, and the first in five on the road.
Paul Rideout scored the goal in Everton's only win in 14 Premiership visits to the Bridge, on 26 November 1994.
REFEREE
Mark Halsey (Lancashire)
Premiership referees' table
Mark Halsey's 2006-07 Premiership card count
SEQUENCES/RECENT FORM
CHELSEA
Club stats
Fixtures
2nd 82 points
Highest achievable finish: 2nd (£9,177,000)
Lowest possible finish: 2nd
1. Drawn the last four Premiership matches against Newcastle (a), Bolton (h), Arsenal (a) and Manchester United (h).
2. Won nine and drawn four of the last 13 Premiership matches, since losing 2-0, away to Liverpool on 20 January.
3. Kept clean sheets in 10 of the last 13 League games, and in 12 of the last 16.
5. Opened the scoring in more Premiership matches than any other club (27).
6. Kept 22 clean sheets in the Premiership (won 19, drawn three), and conceded the opening goal in only seven top flight games - better than any other club on both counts.
7. Will play 64 matches this season.
8. Not lost a home Premiership game under Mourinho (won 44, drawn 12), nor been defeated in the top division at the Bridge since a 1-2 reverse to Arsenal on 21 February 2004 (won 48, drawn 14). Combining Mourinho's record with FC Porto, he is unbeaten in 94 home games in the English and Portuguese leagues (won 80, drawn 14).
9. Mourinho has not lost a home League game in charge of FC Porto and Chelsea since on 23 February 2002 when Porto were beaten 2-1 by Beira Mar.
10. "Doubled" Wigan, Blackburn, Charlton, Portsmouth, Manchester City, Sheffield United, Watford and West Ham. Could add a ninth here.
EVERTON
Club stats
Fixtures
5th 57 points
Highest achievable finish: 5th (£7,728,000)
Lowest mathematical finish: 8th (£6,279,000)
1. Avoided defeat in eight of the last 10 - all Premiership.
2. Failed to score in one of the last 12 Premiership encounters (away to West Ham on 21 April).
3. Maximum points would bring their total to 60 - one short of their Premiership best of 61, achieved in 1995-96 when sixth, and 2004-05, when fourth.
4. Drawn more Premiership matches than any other club in the top half of the table (12).
5. Only Aston Villa (16) and Fulham (15) have finished level more often.
6. Drawn three and lost one of the last four on the road, since their 0-3 triumph at Watford on 24 February.
7. Registered four away League victories this season against Tottenham, Reading, Wigan and Watford.
8. 'Doubled' only by Manchester United so far this season.
KEY PLAYER NOTES/POTENTIAL MILESTONES
CHELSEA
Squad profiles
Didier DROGBA is the highest scoring Premiership player this season with 31 goals, 19 of which are League goals. The Ivory Coast International leads Manchester United's Cristiano RONALDO and Blackburn's Benni McCARTHY by two at the top of the table for the Barclays Golden Boot award.
EVERTON
Squad profiles
Andrew JOHNSON is Everton's top scorer with 12 goals - 11 in the Premiership.
Joseph YOBO is the only player to have been on the field for every minute of every one of Everton's Premiership matches this season. If he plays all 90 minutes, he will match Kevin Ratcliffe's ever present club record in 1987.
Lee CARSLEY is the only other player to have started all of the Toffees' Premiership matches this term.
Jolean LESCOTT is one of three players to have figured in at least a part of every one of the Merseysiders' League games this season.
If involved again, LESCOTT will be making his 250th English League appearance (Wolves and Everton).
If named in the 11, James BEATTIE will be making his 250th club career start (Blackburn, Southampton and Everton).
If and when he next plays, Alessandro PISTONE will be making his 150th career Premiership appearance (Newcastle and Everton).
LAST SEASON'S CORRESPONDING GAME
Chelsea 3-0 Everton
17 April 2006 - Ref: Rob Styles
Chelsea scorers: Lampard 28, Drogba 62, Essien 74
Sent Off: Carsley (Everton) 47
THIS SEASON'S REVERSE FIXTURE
Everton 2-3 Chelsea
16 December 2006 - Ref: Mark Halsey
Everton scorers: Arteta 38 pen, Yobo 64
Chelsea scorers: Howard 49 og, Lampard 81, Drogba 87
HEAD TO HEAD TOTALS
Home and away
League: Chelsea 49 wins, Everton 45, Draws 41
Prem: Chelsea 15 wins, Everton 4, Draws 10
at Chelsea only
League: Chelsea 35 wins, Everton 12, Draws 20
Prem: Chelsea 9 wins, Everton 1, Draws 4
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everton has a euro spot sealed, so i'll say 3-0 to chelsea |
| Fri May 11, 2007 7:44 pm |
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papadoodpoedels
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yea chelsea will win with 3-0 
prediction of goals:
Drogba 2
Lampard 1 |
| Fri May 11, 2007 10:21 pm |
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Everton imo are too gd to be killed 3-0 so i'll say 1-0 chelsea win |
| Sat May 12, 2007 7:08 pm |
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i say 2-1 chealsea |
| Sat May 12, 2007 7:21 pm |
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Chelsea 1: Drogbra - 57
Everton 1: Vaughan - 50 |
| Sun May 13, 2007 3:29 pm |
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| Quote: | Chelsea equalled Liverpool's top flight record of 63 home league games unbeaten, but Everton earned a deserved point from an uninspiring contest.
The first half was woeful, Joe Cole missing the best chance as his left-foot shot trickled inches wide.
Things improved after the break and Everton took a shock lead, Leon Osman squaring for James Vaughan to slot in.
Didier Drogba levelled by sliding in Shaun Wright-Phillips' cross despite protests from the Everton bench.
Interview: Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho
Interview: Everton manager David Moyes
Boss David Moyes felt that Paulo Ferreira had fouled Mikel Arteta in the build-up and he was sent to the stands for remonstrating with the officials.
But Moyes can be proud of his side's display and can now look forward to Everton's Uefa Cup campaign next term after the result secured a sixth-placed finish.
Neither manager will have been especially happy with the first half - it was almost a complete non-event in the teeming Stamford Bridge rain.
If the Chelsea players were trying to prove they were worth a place in next Saturday's showpiece Wembley FA Cup final, it was hard to tell.
Everton were easily matching their more illustrious opponents and went close when Vaughan's 25-yard dipping volley forced Cech to pluck the ball out of the air.
Salomon Kalou looked Chelsea's main threat as he began to cut in from the left and cause Tony Hibbert a few problems.
He drove inside and forced Tim Howard to save low down, before the Ivorian found Cole inside the area, the England man seeing his left-foot shot roll inches wide of the post.
Jose Mourinho looked appalled by his side's display - and his mood would have darkened even further just five minutes after the restart.
With Chelsea on the offensive, Osman carried the ball into the hosts' half and brilliantly delayed his pass until he could pick out Vaughan at the far post, left unmarked to slot past Cech.
Moments later it could have been game over, Cech making a world-class one-handed save to parry Vaughan's acrobatic volley from Arteta's cross.
But just as the visitors seemed to be dominating, up popped Drogba to rescue his side with a leveller.
The lively Wright-Phillips found room down the right and his clever pull-back was met perfectly by Drogba, arcing the ball away from Howard's despairing dive and into the far corner.
With parity restored Chelsea stepped up a gear, Wayne Bridge forcing Howard to save and substitute Ben Sahar drilling a shot straight at the American from 20 yards.
But Everton should have won it at the death, James Beattie's close-range strike crazily ruled offside by a linesman even though it was James McFadden in an offside position and he was nowhere near the ball.
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho on equalling the record:
"It's nice to have levelled it, but no more than that really.
"We are in football to win trophies and championships, not to break records.
"It's an honour to have the record with a historical Liverpool team of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The culture of being strong at home, we need to keep."
Everton boss David Moyes on finishing sixth:
"This is disappointing, we thought we were going to finish fifth.
"We were incensed by the decision not to award a foul against Paulo Ferreira in the build-up to their goal, it was a terrible decision and it was wrong.
"You have to work really hard for what you get at Chelsea and Petr Cech made a great save when we were 1-0 up. But we played really well today."
Chelsea: Cech, Ferreira, Boulahrouz, Terry, Bridge (Hutchinson 89), Lampard, Mikel (Morais 74), Joe Cole (Sahar 70), Wright-Phillips, Drogba, Kalou.
Subs Not Used: Hilario, Lee Sawyer.
Booked: Bridge, Joe Cole.
Goals: Drogba 57.
Everton: Howard, Hibbert, Yobo, Stubbs, Lescott, Osman, Fernandes (McFadden 77), Neville, Carsley, Arteta, Vaughan (Beattie 72).
Subs Not Used: Turner, Naysmith, Nuno Valente.
Booked: Carsley.
Goals: Vaughan 50.
Att: 41,746.
Ref: M Halsey (Lancashire).
Drogba finished as the Premiership's leading goalscorer
Chelsea's Mikel Jon Obi (left) and Everton's James Vaughan Everton goalscorer Vaughan (right) with Chelsea's Mikel Jon Obi
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looks like Chelsea finished the Prem season with a draw too bad! |
| Sun May 13, 2007 5:20 pm |
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