{"id":359014,"date":"2026-03-22T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359014\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T08:18:11","slug":"dominant-everton-sweep-past-below-par-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/359014\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant Everton sweep past below-par Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A miserable 10 days for Chelsea culminated in a chastening 3-0 defeat as Everton won back-to-back matches at home in the Premier League for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>In the space of just over a week, Liam Rosenior&#8217;s side have lost 8-2 on aggregate in a Champions League exit to Paris St Germain, been beaten at home by Newcastle before being out-worked and out-performed by the Toffees &#8211; a team who had won just five times in 15 previous home league games.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenior has won 10 of 19 matches since replacing Enzo Maresca; three of which were in the FA Cup against Wrexham, Hull and Charlton and another at home to Cypriot minnows Pafos.<\/p>\n<p>With Manchester United drawing and Liverpool losing, Chelsea had the chance to go fourth, four points behind the Red Devils, but they blew it in spectacular style.<\/p>\n<p>Everton&#8217;s win, however, puts them within three points of neighbours Liverpool with a home Merseyside derby to come next month.<\/p>\n<p>Beto became the first Everton player to score more than once in a game this season before Iliman Ndiaye curled a shot into the top corner to cap the Toffees&#8217; best performance at their new Hill Dickinson Stadium home and sent the visiting fans streaming for the exit with 15 minutes remaining.<\/p>\n<p>Harry Wilson grabbed his 10th goal of the season as Fulham shoved their former boss Scott Parker closer to the drop with a 3-1 win over Burnley.<\/p>\n<p>Wilson fired Fulham into the lead after Josh King had finally scored his first Premier League goal to cancel out Zian Flemming&#8217;s opener for Burnley.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Fulham's Harry Wilson \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/00241843-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nHarry Wilson netted Fulham&#8217;s second<\/p>\n<p>Substitute Raul Jimenez wrapped up the victory from the penalty spot in stoppage time after Josh Laurent was sent off.<\/p>\n<p>It was a kick in the stomach for Parker, who managed Fulham to promotion in 2020 and relegation a year later and now looks odds on to repeat the trick with the Clarets.<\/p>\n<p>They are nine points adrift of safety &#8211; a gap which could widen after Sunday&#8217;s matches &#8211; with only seven games to play.<\/p>\n<p>Leeds missed the chance to climb six points clear of the Premier League&#8217;s bottom three after being held to a frustrating 0-0 draw by Brentford at Elland Road.<\/p>\n<p>With relegation rivals Tottenham, Nottingham Forest and West Ham all in action on Sunday, Leeds failed to score for the fourth successive league game as their winless top-flight run extended to six matches.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Farke&#8217;s side lacked the quality to seriously trouble a well-drilled and resolute Brentford side, who were superbly marshalled by skipper Nathan Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Andrews&#8217; Bees, who could have climbed level on points with sixth-placed Chelsea with victory, came under sustained pressure only in the closing stages and were worthy of their point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A miserable 10 days for Chelsea culminated in a chastening 3-0 defeat as Everton won back-to-back matches at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-359014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}