Season › 2011-12 › News Everton vs Chelsea Lyndon Lloyd , 11 February, 24comments | Jump to most recent Match Preview Everton play host to top-four opposition for the second home game in succession as Chelsea come to Goodison Park on the back of that thriller at Stamford Bridge last weekend against Manchester City that saw Andre Villas-Boas' men toss away a three-goal lead to draw 3-3. With last weekend's limp display at Wigan almost visibly sucking a good deal of the post-City and post-transfer deadline day euphoria out of the Everton fanbase, the onus will be on the Blues to produce another stirring display to make good on the promise of an end-of-season run on the European places that was hinted at on 31st January. Having inexplicably delayed Nikica Jelavic's debut until the hour mark while Phil Neville replaced the injured Tim Cahill at half time the DW Stadium, David Moyes will likely be under some pressure to start the Croatian against Chelsea... but the stubborn Glaswegian has always marched to his own drum and if he feels Denis Stracqualursi or, if Cahill misses out, Marouane Fellaini in an advanced role is the better way to go, then he'll no doubt do it regardless. Cahill is expected to recover from the foot injury that he appeared to sustain against Manchester City 10 days ago and which obviously flared up again at Wigan but Jack Rodwell's inability to shake off his hamstring problem is starting to concern his manager. Article continues below video content The young England midfielder has been given five weeks to recover after suffering his latest setback against Bolton in early January and looked set to be available this weekend but he felt a reaction in training on Thursday and has undergone further scans. Phil Jagielka, Seamus Coleman and Leon Osman remain sidelined meaning Moyes has a familiar squad from which to choose and could, if he were so inclined, name an unchanged line-up for what will be Landon Donovan's penultimate game for Everton before he again returns to LA Galaxy after the Blackpool cup tie. As they showed against City and against Chelsea on the West Londoners' last two League visits to Goodison — they won here in the League Cup earlier this season — Everton have what it takes to produce a big performance and claim a big result. And with Steven Pienaar making his anticipated return to the Grand Old Lady and Jelavic in the ranks, they're better equipped now to deal pull off a win. Having dropped points against a slew of lowly teams this season, Moyes's boys are going to have to do it the hard way by getting results against the big teams yet to visit Liverpool L4 between now and May, starting with victory this weekend. » Read more Live Matchday Forum Reader Comments (24) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. About these ads