4 talking points from scrappy Stamford Bridge win

By Stamford Bridge-Nicolas Jackson’s 27th minute explosion from the top of the box was sufficient for Chelsea when they scored a 1-0 victory at home on Saturday afternoon.

“We have to learn to win games 1-0,” noted Blues boss Enzo Maresca in February. “Big teams know how to win 1-0. Sometimes when they win 1-0 and ten, 15 minutes, just as they manage the game and the ball, the game kills something that we have to learn.”

Chelsea’s last four home wins were all after the same slim goal line, but they certainly didn’t “kill” the game. A mixture of happiness and last blocks ultimately provided the hosts three important points in the race for the qualification of the Champions League.

How the game unfolds

Everton tried to transform the lunchtime on Saturday into an arm rings of a game and to get a handful of blue shirt on every opportunity. Nevertheless, it was the hosts who took the lead in the first half.

In a blasty forward push, which demonstrated a direct approach, with which Chelsea fans were rarely treated in the past few weeks and months, Trevoh Chalobah won the ball at halftime and threw Enzo Fernandez into the step of Jackson, who needed a touch to sit down before choosing the lower corner.

The visitors were limited to a stubborn header in the first half, but remained stubborn in the competition and, like this party guest, who does not have a watch, were tedious until they finally go out in their pocket with half of their cutlery. There was a growing feeling that Everton could steal a point during the second half.

Chelsea’s one-goal advantage became much slimmer when Beto, shortly after the hour, concludes a crispy snapshot and Robert Sanchez forced the game to rescue the game, which still had to be good.

Jordan Pickford was not a total viewer himself who refused Noni Madueke with a strong wrist and caught a Marc Cucurella head under his crossbar. The number one in England was once again hit the rebound by Jackson in the final phase, but spared his blades of a quick offside flag.

Sanchez spent a fleshy paw to drive out Dwight McNeil’s volley effort in the 90th minute, and saved a victory that led Chelsea to fourth place, on points with Nottingham Forest and only one behind Manchester City. The defeat left Everton on the last pipe on the 13th.

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The relief that Jackson radiated when he rolled into the corner was noticeable. After 13 games, 32 shots and exactly zero goals, the Mercurial Chelsea striker scored for the first time in 2025.

Maresca recently admitted that his team cannot achieve their destinations for the campaign if Jackson continues to fire. There will always be a jagged advantage of his game – the proud graduate of the school of life instead of every football academy in its first few football boots until he turned 16. This rhythm from the game Jackson can sometimes seem to be able to confuse, but he unsettles Evertons Backline even more on Saturday.

Four touched the ball in just more than four seconds 45 meters for Jackson’s opening goal. The suspended Maresca, who developed the action from the press box and was at the low upper upper level on the thin switch, which was actually visible, celebrated wildly. But it was a game passage that was directly against everything he stands for.

“If you attack quickly, you will admit a quick attack and it is not our idea, it is not our football,” Maresca swung at the beginning of the season. But quickly the attack was exactly what the blues did for a large part of the competition, with the jet-heal pairing of Noni Madueke and Pedro Neto relaxed the flanks along the flanks.

At the beginning of this month, Maresca Caicedo welcomed as “the best defensive midfielder in the world”. The only natural thing to do would be the same player in the backline.

In this term, Caicedo devoted three times in three cases with heavily mixed results on the right -back. After an encouraging excursion against Aston Villa in December, Maresca’s decision to pull Caicedo back into midfield fully swung the 4: 3 victory over Tottenham Hotspur. When the Ecuador international was returned to this role for Bournemouth at the beginning of the year, he admitted an awkward punishment.

Unimpressed by this former indiscretion that Caicedo races into his defensive tasks on Saturday and ensured that he was as narrow and uncomfortable as a hair shirt for every Everton player who was unhappy enough to find it on his back.

Iliman Ndiaye suffocated so convincingly by Caicedo that he was thrilled at half -time after not making a single shot.

It cannot be overrated how seismic is the lack of James Tarkowski for Everton. Moyes did little justice when he described it as a “big blow”. Everton has not started a single Premier League game without Tarkowski since his obligation three years ago. Frank Lampard was responsible when the Toffees had the last time the Toffee had the high -towering defensive.

Jake O’Brien filled the emptiness alongside Jarrad Branthwaite in the middle of the backline, but his central shift forced Moyes to turn Nathan Patterson. The Scots had its first start to the season of the Premier League in the right-back and had no pleasant afternoon that Noni Madueke’s headband was chasing, and was constantly on the second best in a one-to-one-one duel Chelsea.

The wing player with his left foot, which was on the left for the first time this season, wore a crooked grin of frustration when he was thrown off the field in the 75th minute after he was thwarted four separate occasions by Pickford.

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