{"id":1169367,"date":"2022-08-07T12:31:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T12:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/07\/pl-chelsea-win-at-injury-hit-everton-in-scrappy-game\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T12:31:30","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T12:31:30","slug":"pl-chelsea-win-at-injury-hit-everton-in-scrappy-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/07\/pl-chelsea-win-at-injury-hit-everton-in-scrappy-game\/","title":{"rendered":"PL: Chelsea win at injury-hit Everton in scrappy game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/jorginho_jp1tlru2upjs1oxev07q8kzxr-696x392.jpg\"   alt=\"Jorginho celebrates\" title=\"Jorginho celebrates\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jorginho celebrates<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Chelsea opened the Premier League season with victory over Everton as Jorginho\u2019s penalty decided a scrappy contest at Goodison Park.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas Tuchel introduced summer signings Kalidou Koulibaly and Raheem Sterling from the start but it was one of Chelsea\u2019s established stars who settled affairs when Jorginho rolled a composed penalty past Jordan Pickford in first-half stoppage time following Abdoulaye Doucoure\u2019s foul on Ben Chilwell.<\/p>\n<p>Everton, without a recognised striker following the sale of Richarlison and injury to Dominic Calvert-Lewin, battled gamely but were woefully short of quality and threat in attack.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Frank Lampard\u2019s cause was not helped by a serious early injury to defender Ben Godfrey, who was taken off on a stretcher following a challenge on Kai Havertz, with Yerry Mina another casualty in the second half.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Chelsea survived in relative comfort and were able to give a debut to new signing Marc Cucurella, the defender signed from Brighton in a deal that could eventually by worth \u00a362m, as they made it a winning start.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"2v6fPjj-1uQ\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nnawotwi Yi Intro on Adom TV (6-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2v6fPjj-1uQ?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorginho celebrates Chelsea opened the Premier League season with victory over Everton as Jorginho\u2019s penalty decided a scrappy contest at Goodison Park. Thomas Tuchel introduced summer signings Kalidou Koulibaly and Raheem Sterling from the start but it was one of Chelsea\u2019s established stars who settled affairs when Jorginho rolled a composed penalty past Jordan Pickford [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1169369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[58,1935,281,22584,22585,309],"class_list":["post-1169367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-chelsea","tag-everton","tag-game","tag-injuryhit","tag-scrappy","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}