Played for both: Five Premier League forwards at Chelsea and Everton

With Chelsea flying high with a seven-point lead in the Premier League and Everton struggling in Roberto Martinez’s second season at Goodison Park, their midweek meeting at Stamford Bridge should be of huge interest.

This got Coral’s football experts thinking about which forwards in the Premier League era have turned out for both the Blues (odds-on at 1/3 to win the match) and Toffees (massive 10/1 outsiders to cause an upset)?

Ahead of their latest meeting, we put our heads together and came up with five fantastic frontmen that plied their trade in both west London and Merseyside.

Samuel Eto’o
After two Champions League triumphs with Barcelona (2004-09) and a historic European treble with Serie A side Inter Milan (2009-11), Cameroon legend Eto’o came to Chelsea via boom and bust Russian club Anzhi Makhachkala in 2013.

His stay at the Bridge was just one season, last term, and he netted a dozen in 34 outings across all competitions, including this hat-trick against Manchester United:

Released on a free transfer by Blues boss Jose Mourinho last summer, Everton came in for Eto’o. He departed the Toffees after just half of the season, and four goals in 20 games, however, by signing for Sampdoria in January.

Mark Hughes
Best known for two spells with Man Utd (1980-86 and 1988-95), Wales wonder and current Stoke City boss Hughes, nicknamed ‘Sparky’, went on to spend three seasons at Chelsea. Towards the end of his playing career, he also had a year on the blue half of Merseyside.

Romelu Lukaku
Big Belgium frontman Lukaku never scored in 15 appearances for Chelsea, but has a hugely respectable 26 in 65 Everton outings ahead of this encounter with his former club. He will desperate to prove Mourinho wrong for selling him to the Toffees for a record fee of £28m. Lukaku is a tasty 10/3 to net anytime.