Everton mock Chelsea star in savage TikTok video after victory

Everton have poked fun at Alejandro Garnacho in a sneering video on their official TikTok page after consigning Chelsea to a fourth successive defeat at 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 in the reverse fixture when Enzo Maresca was still in charge of the club.

Beto made the breakthrough for the Toffees with a sumptuous finish in the 33rd minute and the big centre-forward added a second on the hour-mark, with a shaky Robert Sanchez allowing the ball to slip 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.

With his side trailing at the break, Rosenior decided to introduce Garnacho in place of Malo Gusto in the hope of adding some craft and energy to Chelsea’s attack after a rudderless first-half performance.

But the Argentinian winger failed to make the difference in the second period, easily dealt with by Everton’s Jake O’Brien for the most part at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

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 everything is nice at Hill Dickinson Stadium,’ the caption on the 34-second long video reads.

Needless 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 opportunity to troll Garnacho in 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 another said: ‘Garnancho slander… I’m on the right side of TikTok!’

A third added: ‘Everton has just gained the respect of every 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 in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup.

Rosenior’s men return to Premier League action the following weekend with a daunting trip to the Etihad to face second-placed Manchester City.

Earlier this month, Rosenior threw his support behind Garnacho after what has been a challenging start to his Stamford Bridge career, insisting the attacker had ‘huge ability and huge potential’.

‘Garna is an outstanding player,’ the Chelsea head coach told reporters.

‘I have really liked in this period his reaction to not starting. He has been training very well.

‘Garna has put himself in a really, really good place in the last few weeks and he’s more than knocking on the door to start.

‘We’ve got to take into account 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.

‘Maybe it’s because he can be such a threat. Playing for a club like Chelsea, that just comes with the territory.

‘You have to rise above that and not take notice of it. That’s the best way for me. I don’t think you use it as fuel. Your motivation should 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 needs to do is keep working really hard because his ability is not in question.

‘He’s had a very difficult thing happen in his life recently as well. And rather than tell me about that, he wanted to put himself forward for a game and told me after the game where he had to go back home.’

According to Rosenior, Garnacho is a ‘really good character’ who consistently puts in the hard yards on the training ground.

‘People make judgments based on the way people look,’ he went on.

‘Garna is a really really good character who works really hard every day in training and I know in the end his quality is going to show in a really consistent way.”

Pressed further for an explanation regarding Garnacho’s treatment by opposing supporters, Rosenior responded: ‘Because people judge books by their cover. All I go off is what I know about someone, and not what I’ve heard about them or how they are perceived.”

Asked whether he felt Garnacho was sometimes guilty of diving, Rosenior bluntly replied: ‘No.’

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