Sarri, from Chelsea, admits his first four worries after his heavy loss to Everton | Soccer

Maurizio Sarri accused his side of going out mentally while Chelsea provided the first scalp among Everton's top six in more than two years, with the Italian admitting that he was worried about reaching the top four. could not rectify the problem.

"At the moment, that's our limit, I think," said Chelsea manager after a 2-0 loss to Goodison. "In my opinion, the first 45 minutes were the best we played all season, and then we stopped playing in the second half. We have forgotten how to defend, or how to counter-attack and it's a problem for us, because even if you do not score, you have to stay in the game. "

Sarri was right to say that Chelsea could have scored three goals or more at half-time, and that the sudden change came out shockingly so that Everton took control of the second half after being overpowered first.

"We were good until the last minute of the first half and bad in the first minute of the second," said the manager of Chelsea. "We were in control of the game, all we had to do was continue and we could not do it.

"If you're talking about the first four, I would say it depends if you're talking about the first half or the second. It will be difficult to reach the top four now but I would not say impossible. If we can play as we did in the first half for eight games, we will give ourselves a chance. "

Marco Silva acknowledged that the first half was difficult for the locals but played a less important role in producing a second-half performance of a much higher intensity. "What I said at the interval was simple," said Everton's manager. "I said in the second half that we had to do everything differently. I was satisfied with the response of the players. In the second half, we showed ourselves. "

Everton have not beaten their top six in the Premier League since Ronald Koeman's team beat Pep Guardiola's 4-0 Manchester City in January 2017, a statistic Silva said he did not know.

"I did not know it was so long, but all I want to say is that it can not happen again," Silva said. "It's too big a club for that to happen."