{"id":348433,"date":"2017-08-27T14:32:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T14:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348433"},"modified":"2017-11-10T14:46:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T14:46:20","slug":"morata-scores-as-chelsea-see-off-everton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=348433","title":{"rendered":"Morata scores as Chelsea see off Everton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Chelsea produced a dominant home performance to comfortably beat Everton for their second win of the Premier League season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73873\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fabregas-goal.jpg\" alt=\"fabregas-goal\" width=\"574\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cesc Fabregas broke Everton&#8217;s resistance by coolly clipping into the bottom corner from Alvaro Morata&#8217;s instinctive knockdown, ending a smart move that began with a quick free-kick.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73872\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fabregas-cele.jpg\" alt=\"fabregas-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"379\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Morata&#8217;s thumping header doubled Chelsea&#8217;s lead before the break, the Spaniard gleefully finishing from Cesar Azpilicueta&#8217;s perfect cross.<\/p>\n<p>Everton did not get a sight of goal until Sandro&#8217;s poor scuffed shot was deflected wide shortly after the break, a move that was only started by Azpilicueta&#8217;s mistake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73875\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/MorataGoal.jpg\" alt=\"moratagoal\" width=\"574\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In truth, Chelsea really ought to have scored more; Victor Moses shot straight at Jordan Pickford when played through, and Pedro drove just wide after nutmegging Gylfi Sigurdsson on the edge of the box.<\/p>\n<p>The Toffees, playing their third tricky away game in six days, have now failed to win in their past 23 league matches at Stamford Bridge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73869\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ChelseaCele.jpg\" alt=\"chelseacele\" width=\"624\" height=\"388\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For Chelsea, this was the perfect follow-up to last weekend&#8217;s impressive victory over Tottenham at Wembley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC Sport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea produced a dominant home performance to comfortably beat Everton for their second win of the Premier League season. Cesc Fabregas broke Everton&#8217;s resistance by coolly clipping into the bottom corner from Alvaro Morata&#8217;s instinctive knockdown, ending a smart move that began with a quick free-kick. Morata&#8217;s thumping header doubled Chelsea&#8217;s lead before the break, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":348434,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-348433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=348433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=348433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=348433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=348433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}