Thomas Tuchel's route to victory over Everton was an extremely typical journey to collecting three points for Chelsea. With a standout Thiago Silva display and a Jorginho penalty, the Blues earned an opening day win on a ground that they haven't come out on top at since 2017.
It is the way that Tuchel has had to be successful whilst at Chelsea. Limiting the opponents but also failing to carve out clear chances at the other end. With a trickier home task in Spurs next week, it is a good parallel to make that Tuchel's second game in charge was a 1-0 win over Tottenham, Silva was magnificent and Jorginho's spot-kick separated the teams.
Chelsea will need to be better though and attention has turned quickly to their misfiring attack. With Mason Mount, Raheem Sterling and Kai Havertz starting at Goodison there was eagerness to see the new system in which Sterling actually played centrally for the most part. The lack of creativity has already caused issues though and pundits believe more investment going forward is needed.
