Everton vs Chelsea: Unbeaten Everton Host Chelsea With Both Clubs on 10 Points

Result, Saturday 17 October: Everton 0-2 Chelsea.

Everton vs Chelsea kickoff time and how to watch

The match kicks off at 12:30 BST on Saturday 17 October at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in Liverpool, which is 7:30 a.m. ET and 4:30 a.m. PT in the US. ESPN lists USA Network and Universo as the US broadcasters. In the UK, Football365 lists the game live on TNT Sports 1, with coverage from 12:00 BST. The rest of matchweek 7 is on our Premier League fixtures page.

Form and the table

Everton and Chelsea are level on 10 points after six games: Everton are fifth with two wins and four draws, Chelsea sixth with three wins, one draw and two defeats, separated by goal difference, +3 to +2. Brentford, fourth, also have 10 points and a better goal difference. Manchester City lead the Premier League table with 18 points from six wins, ahead of Arsenal on 15 and Brighton on 13; Leeds United, Hull City, Liverpool and Ipswich Town are a point behind on nine.

Everton are one of three unbeaten teams in the league, with Manchester City and Brentford. After a 2-0 win over Crystal Palace in their first game, their last five league games read D-D-D-W-D, oldest first: 1-1 at Bournemouth, 2-2 at home to Manchester United, 0-0 at Tottenham Hotspur, 1-0 at home to Ipswich Town and 2-2 at Hull City on 11 October. According to beIN SPORTS on 11 October, Everton had previously gone unbeaten through the first six games of a Premier League season in 2006-07, when the run reached seven, and in 2013-14. They also beat Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 at home in the Carabao Cup on 16 September.

Chelsea's last five read W-L-D-L-W: a 4-3 home win over Brighton, a 2-1 defeat at Arsenal, a 2-2 home draw with Hull City, a 3-0 defeat at Brentford and a 5-1 home win over Bournemouth on 10 October. They opened with a 3-2 win at Fulham and beat Leeds United 6-3 at home in the Carabao Cup on 9 September. Their 15 league goals are the third-most, behind Brighton's 18 and Manchester City's 16, but their 13 conceded are the joint-most, level with Newcastle United and Bournemouth, and they have not kept a clean sheet in six league games. Neither club has a European game this week.

Everton vs Chelsea team news

Everton's main doubt is Vitalii Mykolenko. The left-back missed the draw at Hull with a problem picked up on Ukraine duty, and Football365, in a preview published on Wednesday, rated him a 50-50 chance, adding that Everton have no other recognized left-back. Christian Nørgaard, a summer signing from Arsenal, could make the squad after his first minutes for the club in a 3-3 behind-closed-doors draw with Blackburn, though David Moyes would rather give him more time, and Merlin Röhl, injured before the international break, may be back in contention, the same preview says.

Chelsea captain Reece James is a doubt. He was left out of the squad against Bournemouth after picking up a knee injury in training the day before the game, the Evening Standard reported, and Football365 says he also missed training on Tuesday. After the game, manager Xabi Alonso did not put a timescale on his return.

We need to check how long it will be. We need to assess him week-by-week.

Xabi Alonso, Chelsea manager, after the 5-1 win over Bournemouth, via the Evening Standard

Jamie Gittens is out with an ankle injury from England Under-21 duty; Alonso said before the Bournemouth game that he would be out for a few weeks, the Standard reported. Emmanuel Emegha is back in training after a preseason hamstring injury but was left out against Bournemouth, and Football365 does not expect him to be available. João Pedro and Moisés Caicedo were passed fit to start that game after knee and calf problems respectively, as was Cole Palmer after withdrawing from England duty. Neither club had a player sent off in matchweek 6. This is the picture as of Wednesday 14 October.

Everton vs Chelsea head to head

Chelsea won three of those five games and Everton one, with one draw, but Everton won the most recent 3-0 at the Hill Dickinson Stadium in March, and Football365 notes that Chelsea have won only one of their last nine Premier League visits to Everton, losing six.

Everton vs Chelsea: key numbers

According to ESPN, João Pedro has five league goals in five appearances and Morgan Rogers four, and Cole Palmer and João Pedro have three assists each; Thierno Barry leads Everton with three goals, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall has two. Everton's five goals conceded are the joint-fewest in the league, with Manchester City, Arsenal, Brighton and Leeds United. For what playing at home is usually worth, see our study of home advantage measured across six leagues.

How they lined up last time

• Everton (4-2-3-1), 2-2 at Hull City on 11 October: Jordan Pickford in goal, with Michael Keane, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Ainsley Maitland-Niles, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Harrison Armstrong, James Garner, Thierno Barry, Jack Grealish and Brennan Johnson.
• Chelsea (3-4-2-1), 5-1 at home to Bournemouth on 10 October: Emiliano Martínez in goal, with Maxence Lacroix, Levi Colwill, Josh Acheampong, Moisés Caicedo, Jordan Henderson, Pep Chavarría, Pedro Neto, João Pedro, Morgan Rogers and Cole Palmer.

Our reports on Hull City 2-2 Everton and Chelsea 5-1 Bournemouth have the goals and substitutions, and the Premier League simulator lets you play out the rest of the season from the current table.

How this preview was built: kickoff time, venue, US TV listing, results, head-to-head record, season leaders and lineups come from ESPN's match data; the table after matchweek 6 is our own, computed from ESPN full-time results. UK TV, Everton's team news and Chelsea's record on visits to Everton come from Football365; Chelsea's injury news and Xabi Alonso's comments from the Evening Standard and Football365, both published on 14 October; Everton's unbeaten-start record from beIN SPORTS, published on 11 October.