Is wound up by counterpart Silva

The diminutive midfielder appeared to floor Antonio Rudiger with an attempted butt behind referee Kevin Friend’s back on the stroke of half-time.

Friend ended up booking both players, but would surely have sent off Bernard had he seen the incident properly.

Silva suggested that Jorginho should have been given more than the yellow card he received for a nasty foul on Gylfi Sigurdsson but he and Sarri put their differences behind them with a hug at the final whistle.

“You think Bernard, at that size, could do something?” asked Silva. “I didn’t see. We have already played twice with 10 men this season. But what did you think about Jorginho?”

Jorginho certainly seemed rattled by the way in which Everton closed him down after Silva had highlighted the Italy international, along with Eden Hazard, as the man his team needed to stop.

“We blocked Jorginho fantastically with Richarlison in the first moment,” said Silva. “He’s one of the keys in Maurizio’s system. He controlled all the matches with the ball for Chelsea. What we miss in some moments is what we did with the ball in the first 25 minutes.”

Pickford had stopped Chelsea taking the lead during the opening 45 minutes with an excellent save from Marcos Alonso. It would have been a goal-of-the-season contender had Alonso scored with a spectacular angled volley from Willian’s free-kick, but Pickford was equal to it. The keeper had to be at his best again just 12 seconds after the restart, as he kept out Alvaro Morata and Chelsea stepped up a gear. Alonso hit a post with another brilliant shot, and Hazard and Willian missed good opportunities.

But Everton were also wasteful, as Bernard got his feet in a muddle when the ball dropped to him unmarked at the back post from Sigurdsson’s cross.

A few minutes earlier, the visitors had appealed for a penalty when a Richarlison header hit Rudiger on an arm, but Friend allowed play to continue.

Sarri had opted against giving Ross Barkley a start against his former club, but that did not spare the midfielder from getting an earful from the travelling Everton fans.

Barkley clapped as he was loudly booed when he first warmed up and there were further chants of “one greedy b------”. He eventually replaced Mateo Kovacic in the final 10 minutes to more jeers from the away end.

But Barkley could not help Chelsea make a late breakthrough and Sarri believes his team need to be more clinical than in their past three games, in which they have scored four goals.

“Usually, yes, we are ruthless,” said Sarri. “Not in the last three matches because, as I said to my players, in the last three matches we created few goal opportunities in relation to how much we played.

“So, in this moment, it’s maybe a little problem. But three matches is a very short time.” You do not just play for Diego Simeone’s Atletico Madrid; you are expected to sweat blood. Captain Diego Godin led by example this weekend. After pulling a muscle trying to stop Athletic Bilbao going 2-1 up just after an hour at the Wanda Metropolitano – and with Atletico having made all three substitutions – the defender was sent up front. Atletico soon equalised then, in injury time, who popped up with the winner? Godin himself. Four divisions and 91 places separated Haringey Borough from FA Cup visitors AFC Wimbledon in the first round on Friday and, despite defeat, manager Tom Loizou pointed out how far the club had come. “Nine years ago we only had two season-ticket holders,” Loizou told the BBC, “and one of them died.”