Overview
- Chelsea enter the Stamford Bridge fixture on a four-match league drought after a 2-1 defeat at Atalanta in midweek.
- Everton have won four of their past five league games and sit seventh, two points off the top four.
- Idrissa Gueye and Tim Iroegbunam are available for Everton, while Chelsea are without Moisés Caicedo as he serves the final game of a three-match ban.
- Wesley Fofana is expected to be fit despite a midweek eye injury, and Everton remain without Seamus Coleman, Jarrad Branthwaite and Merlin Röhl, though the latter two have resumed training.
- Everton have not won a Premier League match at Stamford Bridge since 1994, and David Moyes is winless in 20 away league games there as a manager.