Mateo Kovacic comes in for injured Hakim Ziyech with Kai Havertz expected to move from midfield into a more forward role. It is Kovacic’s 50th Premier League start.

It means there are nine changes from the midweek draw against Krasnodar with Edouard Mendy returning in goal, Thiago Silva back in the side and wearing the captain’s armband, and Olivier Giroud leading the attack.Kurt Zouma starts against the club where he played on loan in 2018/19.

There is no Christian Pulisic tonight with Lampard reporting: 'He has a bit of awareness in his hamstring. He’s been training through the week but he felt some awareness and we simply can’t risk him. Hopefully for Tuesday night, we will find out next week.'

Everton bring in Mason Holgate and Gylfi Sigurdsson for injured pair Fabian Delph and James Rodriguez.

Chelsea Mendy; James, Zouma, Thiago Silva (c), Chilwell; Kovacic, Kante, Mount; Havertz, Giroud, Werner.

Subs Kepa, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Jorginho, Gilmour, Anjorin, Abraham.

Everton Pickford; Holgate, Mina, Keane, Godfrey, Iwobi, Allan, Sigurdsson (c), Doucoure, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin

Subs Olsen, Kenny, Gomes, Davies, Gordon, Tosun, Bernard.

The referee is Jon Moss.

Stats recap

The Blues have kept a clean sheet in six of our last eight Premier League meetings with Everton, losing the two games when we conceded.This weekend’s game will be our 90th competitive visit to Goodison Park, more than we’ve played at any other away ground.Chelsea have won more games in all competitions against Everton than against any other club - 73We have also scored more goals against the Toffees than against any other side - 290

The Blues are hoping to keep four consecutive away clean sheets in the Premier League for the first time since December 2015 to February 2016.Chelsea are aiming to start a Premier League season undefeated in our opening six away games for the first time for six years.Frank Lampard’s side are looking to extend our unbeaten run (excluding penalty shoot-outs) to 18 games in all competitions since our defeat to Liverpool on 20 September.Since the Liverpool defeat, we are unbeaten in nine Premier League matches (five wins, four draws), with only Tottenham on a longer current unbeaten run in the competition (10).