LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Jorginho’s late first-half penalty was enough to give Chelsea a 1-0 victory over Everton in the English Premier League on Saturday for the London club's first win at Goodison Park in five visits.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — An Everton fan who has been helping Ukrainian refugees was brought on to take a penalty during the Premier League team's preseason match against Dynamo Kyiv.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Amid a pitch invasion by Everton fans, Crystal Palace manager Patrick Vieira appeared to kick out at a supporter who looked to be goading him during a confrontation.
The field was flooded by Everton supporters after their team recovered from 2-0 down at halftime to win 3-2 on Thursday and secure Premier League survival before Sunday's final round.
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Before the final round on Sunday, the Premier League has three games on tap that had been postponed earlier in the season.
WATFORD, England (AP) — Everton moved further away from the bottom three in the Premier League after playing out a lackluster 0-0 draw at already relegated Watford on Wednesday.
Frank Lampard’s team went into the match having taken 10 points from its last five matches, lifting it out of the relegation zone and up to 16th — one point ahead of Burnley and Leeds.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Everton forward Richarlison threw a lit flare after picking it up from the field while celebrating scoring to secure a 1-0 victory over Chelsea on Sunday that helped his team's push to avoid relegation from the Premier League.
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Everton boss Frank Lampard faces Chelsea for the first time since losing his job at Stamford Bridge last year. Everton's spirit and strategy was much improved against Liverpool last weekend, for the first hour anyway.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Liverpool’s 2-0 victory in a frantic 240th Merseyside derby on Sunday kept its quadruple bid on track while pushing Everton slightly closer to a first relegation in 71 years.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Richarlison scored an equalizer in the second minute of stoppage time as Everton drew 1-1 with Leicester to move four points clear of the Premier League's relegation zone on Wednesday.
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Everton hosts Manchester United in the first of five Premier League games with Frank Lampard's team needing a win to avoid the danger of dropping into the relegation zone by the end of the weekend.
BURNLEY, England (AP) — Everton's status as an ever-present in the Premier League is under serious threat.
Frank Lampard's team tumbled to within a point of the relegation zone after conceding in the 85th minute to lose 3-2 at Burnley in a wild, end-to-end match on Wednesday.
LONDON (AP) — Everton remained in deep trouble in the Premier League after losing 2-1 at West Ham on Sunday, with defender Michael Keane's second-half red card capping another disappointing away performance by Frank Lampard's team.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Alex Iwobi’s goal in the ninth minute of stoppage time gave 10-man Everton a 1-0 victory over Newcastle on Thursday that ended a four-game losing streak in the Premier League and boosted the club's hopes of avoiding a relegation scrap.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Boyhood Liverpool fan Conor Coady headed a second-half winner for Wolverhampton at Goodison Park on Sunday to push 10-man Everton closer to the club's first relegation in 71 years.
LONDON (AP) — Tottenham stayed in the race for the English Premier League top four after a 5-0 hammering of an Everton side that is in grave relegation danger after Monday.
Spurs have been inconsistent in recent weeks but showed their best as, after Michael Keane's own goal put them ahead early on, they ran riot.
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Boreham Wood, a fifth-tier club and comfortably the lowest-ranked team left in the FA Cup, looks to cause a major shock when it visits Everton in the fifth round.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — It was a controversial VAR decision that will be celebrated in the blue half of Manchester and lamented by both halves of Merseyside.
Manchester City was protecting a 1-0 lead at Everton — following Phil Foden's slightly fortunate 82nd-minute goal — when its holding midfielder Rodri appeared to give away a penalty in stoppage time when a spinning ball struck his outstretched right arm.
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Frank Lampard begins his tenure as Everton manager when his team hosts Brentford among a batch of FA Cup fourth-round matches.
As a player, Frank Lampard found trips to Goodison Park among the hardest matches in the English Premier League.
He’s back there as Everton’s latest manager and facing another tough assignment — awakening one of English football’s fallen giants.
He spun ball boys in the air after goals, substituted a substitute who had been on the field barely 18 minutes, and was unbeaten in Premier League matches against Chelsea, Manchester United and Arsenal to lift his team out of the relegation zone.
LIVERPOOL, England (AP) — Everton promoted Duncan Ferguson to caretaker manager on Tuesday while it searches for Rafa Benitez's successor.
Ferguson, a former Scotland and Everton striker, took charge for three games in 2019 following the dismissal of Marco Silva and he has remained on the coaching staff.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Ralf Rangnick turned down an offer to coach Chelsea on an interim basis last season. He couldn't say no to Manchester United, though.
The 63-year-old German held his first news conference Friday as interim manager after receiving his work permit and watching from the stands as United beat Arsenal 3-2 on Thursday at Old Trafford.
For all the improvements made by England under Gareth Southgate — and reaching the World Cup semifinals and European Championship final suggests there are many — one major problem has been holding the team back.
MILAN (AP) — AC Milan has exercised its option to sign Fikayo Tomori from Chelsea after the defender's loan spell with the Italian club in the second half of the season.
The Serie A club paid a reported fee of at least $33 million for the 23-year-old Tomori, who joined Milan in January and helped the team secure a Champions League spot by finishing second.
LONDON (AP) — Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel was given a two-year contract extension Friday after leading the club to the Champions League title.
The German's deal will keep him in charge of the Premier League club through June 2024, after being hired in late January on an 18-month contract to replace the fired Frank Lampard.
LONDON (AP) — Chelsea's decision to fire a club legend suddenly doesn't seem so callous after all.
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PARIS (AP) — Defending champion France opened its qualifying campaign for the 2022 World Cup with a tame 1-1 draw against Ukraine, while Bosnia-Herzegovina scored late to draw 2-2 away against Finland in Wednesday's other Group D game...
Frank Lampard never gave any credence to the view that Jose Mourinho, his old mentor, was a manager who had been swept aside by the modern game...
The group stage of the Champions League is only one round old and already Chelsea faces a match it cannot afford to lose...
LONDON (AP) — Chelsea is collecting a rare currency from its "ATM": Goals from young English academy graduates...