Everton have poked fun at Alejandro Garnacho in a sneering video on their official TikTok page after consigning Chelsea to a fourth successive defeat on the weekend.
Liam Rosenior cut a frustrated figure on the touchline as his Chelsea side were humbled by an Everton team which had been comfortably beaten within the reverse fixture when Enzo Maresca was still in command of the club.
Beto made the breakthrough for the Toffees with a luxurious finish within the thirty third minute and the massive centre-forward added a second on the hour-mark, with a shaky Robert Sanchez allowing the ball to slide between his legs.
Iliman Ndiaye increased the deficit with an emphatic 76th-minute strike beyond Sanchez and David Moyes’ men held firm to rise to eighth in Premier League table.
The result leaves Chelsea languishing down in sixth place, one point behind reigning champions Liverpool, who also faltered on the road in Saturday’s lunchtime kick-off.
Along with his side trailing on the break, Rosenior decided to introduce Garnacho rather than Malo Gusto within the hope of adding some craft and energy to Chelsea’s attack after a rudderless first-half performance.
However the Argentinian winger didn’t make the difference within the second period, easily handled by Everton’s Jake O’Brien for probably the most part on the Hill Dickinson Stadium.
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Three days on from their win, Everton’s social media team took to TikTok to upload a mocking compilation showing Garnacho getting manhandled and shoved off the ball while rolling around and complaining to referee Samuel Barrott.
‘Not the whole lot is sweet at Hill Dickinson Stadium,’ the caption on the 34-second long video reads.
Useless to say, the clip has been well received by those Everton supporters still revelling in Chelsea’s misery several days on.
But there are also countless Manchester United fans taking the chance to troll Garnacho within the comment section on the back of the forward’s controversial £40million move from Old Trafford to Chelsea last summer.
‘Ego of Ronaldo, skills of Shane Long,’ one reply read, while one other said: ‘Garnancho slander… I’m on the best side of TikTok!’
A 3rd added: ‘Everton has just gained the respect of each Man United fan and most Chelsea fans.’
Chelsea now have a week-and-a-half to lick their wounds and regroup before locking horns with League One outfit Port Vale within the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.
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Rosenior’s men return to Premier League motion the next weekend with a frightening trip to the Etihad to face second-placed Manchester City.
Earlier this month, Rosenior threw his support behind Garnacho after what has been a difficult begin to his Stamford Bridge profession, insisting the attacker had ‘huge ability and big potential’.
‘Garna is an impressive player,’ the Chelsea head coach told reporters.
‘I even have really liked in this era his response to not starting. He has been training thoroughly.
‘Garna has put himself in a extremely, really good place in the previous few weeks and he’s greater than knocking on the door to start out.
‘We’ve got to bear in mind that Garna is 21. He’s got huge ability. He’s got huge potential.’
When quizzed on the hostile treatment and boos that Garnacho often receives from opposition fans, Rosenior said: ‘I don’t understand. I don’t understand why that happens.
‘Perhaps it’s because he might be such a threat. Playing for a club like Chelsea, that just comes with the territory.
‘You’ve gotten to rise above that and never take notice of it. That’s one of the best ways for me. I don’t think you employ it as fuel. Your motivation must be there anyway to perform.
‘It’s not something that we’ve spoken about. We’ve had many conversations, but opposition fans booing you normally means you’re a threat for the opposition. All Garna must do is keep working really hard because his ability isn’t in query.
‘He’s had a really difficult thing occur in his life recently as well. And moderately than tell me about that, he desired to put himself forward for a game and told me after the sport where he had to return home.’
Based on Rosenior, Garnacho is a ‘really good character’ who consistently puts within the hard yards on the training ground.
‘People make judgments based on the way in which people look,’ he went on.
‘Garna is a extremely really good character who works really hard day-after-day in training and I do know ultimately his quality goes to indicate in a extremely consistent way.”
Pressed further for a proof regarding Garnacho’s treatment by opposing supporters, Rosenior responded: ‘Because people judge books by their cover. All I am going off is what I learn about someone, and never what I’ve heard about them or how they’re perceived.”
Asked whether he felt Garnacho was sometimes guilty of diving, Rosenior bluntly replied: ‘No.’
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