london ellis simms grabbed a lastgasp equaliser as struggling everton boosted their fight for premier league survival with a dramatic 22 draw against chelsea on saturdaysean dyches side were moments away from a damaging defeat until simms scored his first goal for the club to stun stamford bridge into silenceevertons show of defiance came after they twice trailed in west londonjoao felix had put chelsea ahead early in the second half with his second goal since joining on loan from atletico madrid in januaryabdoulaye doucoures equaliser was followed by kai havertzs third goal in his last three appearances as the german converted penalty in the closing stagessimms was on loan at championship side sunderland earlier this season but the 22yearold showed he could be evertons saviour in the relegation battle with his crucial levellereverton are now two points clear of the relegation zone after extending their unbeaten run to three gameswe threw ellis in against liverpool and he struggled a bit but hes maturing into it hes got pace and power and it was a nice finish dyche saida lot has been made of lacking strikers here but ive said all along its a team mentality there is certainly talent were laying down a base to work fromit was a bitter pill for chelsea to swallow as graham potters team squandered the chance to clinch a fourth successive win in all competitionswe thought we played well enough to get the three points but ultimately if you dont defend well you dont get the result potter saidwe lost duels in the box and when you lose the duels there is danger we have to do betterthe match was marred by homophobic chanting from everton fans who could be heard singing chelsea rent boyit was announced in january that clubs could be charged by englands football association if their fans sang the offensive songthe uks crown prosecution service defined the term as a hate crime last yearthat was an ugly side to a memorable match that started with chelseas mateo kovacic volleying just wide from the edge of the areahampered all season by a lack of cutting edge chelsea had scored more than once in just two games in all competitions in 2023netting three times at leicester in their previous match had given potter encouragement that he had solved chelseas attacking woesthere was undoubtedly more vibrancy about chelsea and felix rewarded their territorial dominance in the 52nd minutewhen ben chilwells cross deflected to felix just inside the everton area the portugal star seized his chance with a low drive that beat jordan pickford and cannoned into the net off the far postfelixs first goal in seven games was nearly followed by an everton equaliser moments later when michael keane headed wide from demarai grays freekickit was a warning chelsea failed to heed as everton equalised in the 69th minuteconjuring a goal straight from the dyche playbook everton struck from dwight mcneils corner as ben godfrey flicked on and doucoure nodded home from