CHELSEA'S 3-1 DEFEAT TO EVERTON, SEE FUNNY JOSE MOURINHO MEMES

This was billed as the day that Chelsea were reacquainted with John Stones, the one that got away, yet for Jose Mourinho and his troubled players it ended up being about a season threatening to slip away.

In falling to their third defeat in five League games here, Chelsea looked as far removed as imaginable from the side that won 6-3 at Goodison Park in the early days of last season to underline their title credentials. They are leaking goals and they lack a cutting edge in attack, and a hungrier-looking Everton side took full advantage as Steven Naismith struck a superb hat-trick. “Going down” chanted a gleeful Glwadys Street and while it would be wrong to write off the London side just yet, Chelsea’s problems were writ large.

Not since Blackburn in 1995 have the defending champions managed only four points from their opening five matches and while they had plenty of possession – 62 per cent – they did not carry enough threat.  Defensively, the introduction of John Obi Mikel to provide extra cover for a central defence of Terry and Kurt Zouma made no difference and the result was back-to-back League defeats for Chelsea for only the second time under Mourinho.

“The biggest concern is that everything goes against us,” said the Portuguese. “We know we are making mistakes but for every mistake we are punished immediately.”