Brentford, struggling of late, defeated Mauricio Pochettino's side earlier in the season at Stamford Bridge during Toney's well-publicised ban. With Toney back among the ranks, they will be even more confident at home on Saturday and the striker will see the match as an opportunity to show Chelsea he could be the man to lead them from mid-table also-rans to once again challenging for European football.
They may need a bigger cushion by the end of another troubled campaign given the appeal board's verdict that a six-point deduction is the minimum but sufficient sanction required to achieve the aims of the profit and sustainability rules, and that the original commission was correct to reject all of the mitigating factors Everton presented for their financial losses up to 2022.
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