Chelsea shrug off Everton challenge with ease

Antonio Conte's Chelsea rolled back the clock at Goodison Park on Sunday, producing perhaps their most commanding away performance since beating West Ham nearly two months ago. And they successfully navigated what was arguably their toughest remaining hurdle with the 3-0 win.
What's more, they showed that the strategy that Jose Mourinho employed against them at Old Trafford -- deputising a midfielder to man-mark Eden Hazard -- is not a foolproof method. It might have worked there with that set of players and with Mourinho's tactical instructions. But when Ronald Koeman opted to put Idrissa Gueye on the Belgium international, all it did was allow Hazard to drag his marker out of position, opening up large swathes of real estate in front of the back four.

That's the thing about man-marking in the modern game: you can't really improvise it. You either have guys who know how to do it and a team around them that can adjust, or you simply end up turning it into a 10 vs. 10. When you do the latter, it means there is more space. Against an opponent with better players, that's simply suicidal.