Chelsea Women were in Liverpool on Sunday, April 26, 2026, to face Everton at Goodison Park in a 12.00 BST kick-off that produced a late flourish from Erin Cuthbert, who scored Chelsea’s fourth goal.
The match was overseen by referee Ross Martin and saw Chelsea lined up in a 4-3-3 with Hannah Hampton in goal and a starting XI that included Lucy Bronze, Veerle Buurman, Lauren James and Sam Kerr. Everton named Brosnan, Blundell, Fernandez, Wheeler, Payne, Gago, Vignola, Galli, Stevenik, Momiki and Pacheco as their starters.
The numerical weight of the day is simple: Chelsea registered a fourth goal, Erin Cuthbert the scorer, while Everton carved moments of their own. Nicole Momiki tested Hampton with an effort that the goalkeeper pushed away into the top right. Sam Kerr threatened repeatedly for Chelsea but saw two of her attempts blocked; one of those came from a cross supplied by Lauren James. Sandy Baltimore won a free kick on the left wing as Chelsea rotated their personnel.
Substitutions underlined both managers’ intent to alter momentum. Chelsea’s changes involved Chloe Sarwie, Sandy Baltimore, Lexi Potter and Veerle Buurman; Baltimore replaced Lauren James and Potter came on for Keira Walsh. Everton brought on Katja Snoeijs and Honoka Hayashi as they looked to lift their attacking threat. The pattern on the pitch was clear: Chelsea probing and creating, Everton responding with occasional danger and a goalkeeper-testing attempt from Momiki.
That local color — the cross, the blocked headers, the pushed shot — matters because it shows how the game was decided not by a single moment but by a run of small battles. Hampton’s top-right stop prevented an Everton equaliser at one crucial stage. Kerr’s two blocked efforts showed Chelsea’s forward line carving chances without an immediate finish. And Cuthbert’s goal, the fourth recorded for Chelsea in the match, supplied the clean numerical edge that settled the contest.
Context here is straightforward: the visit to Goodison Park carried historical overtones and was covered live in match pages and features framed around the venue. Outside the result itself, Chelsea enter this stretch of fixtures with a league title challenge described as long out of reach, but with the season still offering a route into next season’s Women’s Champions League — a prize the club can yet aim to secure.
The tension in the afternoon was a structural one. Chelsea created repeatedly and eventually converted, yet they also relied on a goalkeeper save to keep Everton at bay and on blocked shots that could have swung the game the other way. Everton’s substitutions and their moments of pressure suggested a side not ready to concede without a fight, even as Chelsea finished the day with a fourth goal to their name.
Erin Cuthbert’s strike was the decisive human detail. She supplied the finishing touch to a game that tested both sides’ patience and quality. For Chelsea, the result — and Cuthbert’s contribution — keeps the club on a path that, if sustained, can still deliver European qualification. For now, the image that remains is of Hampton in goal, denying Momiki, and of Cuthbert finding the net: two players whose moments on a single afternoon at Goodison Park carried the weight of a season’s remaining ambitions.
