Ancelotti outwits Lampard seeing that Everton beat Chelsea
Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti outwitted his former player Frank Lampard as his side placed on a superbly organised effectiveness to beat visitors Chelsea 1-0 in their Premier League clash on Saturday.
Ancelotti's side were pleased to let their site visitors possess the ball but allowed them important little in the way of goal-scoring chances, snuffing out Chelsea's high-priced attack in a disciplined defensive display before 2,000 fans.
"I am really pleased, before our supporters. We are actually happy for them, they have seen a good meet from Everton. We played very well with fantastic spirit," Ancelotti said.
"Defensively we did effectively. The team sacrificed, that was the prospective because against the tough teams like Chelsea you will need to sacrifice. We had been dangerous on the counter and we didn't concede various opportunities. We deserved to win."
Everton striker Dominic Calvert-Lewin was upended by goalkeeper Edouard Mendy, and Gylfi Sigurdsson dispatched the resulting penalty for the only goal of the game, but Lampard declined at fault his net-minder.
"I don't believe Edouard Mendy was only culpable but he features been outstanding up to now so I will take that. When teams play long with among the finest strikers in the league, you will need to suffer the occasions and complete," Lampard said.
Though his side continue to be third in the table, the former Chelsea midfielder dismissed recommendations that these were title challengers alongside leaders Tottenham Hotspur and Liverpool.
"You have to consider the teams winning it the previous three or perhaps fours years -- they possess wingers, strikers scoring 30, 40 goals and league, Champions League winners," he said.
"Coming here to the place, they (Everton) were up for an outcome and we did not at night test. We will later on."
