Everton will be without captain James Tarkowski for the rest of the season, because the hope of the defender to set a new Premier League record was interrupted.
Tarkowski sustained a hamstring injury during the defeat on Saturday against Manchester City in Goodison Park.
The 32-year-old was pulled out and replaced by Michael Keane when Everton collapsed for only their third league-defeat in the second spell of David Moyes.
And the former Burnley Center-back will no longer play this season, Moyes confirmed for the trip from Everton to Chelsea.
David Moyes confirms that James Tarkowski will miss the rest of the season with a hamstring injury last weekend.
We wish you a quick recovery, Tarky! pic.twitter.com/fmh4azwtmg
– Everton (@EVerton) April 25, 2025
That means that Tarkowski, who had made an 111 consecutive Premier League Start, is just in a shortage of establishing a new record for successive starts in the competition between outfielders.
It is a record of Wayne Bridge, who started 113 Straight Premier League matches for Southampton between March 2000 and January 2003.
Frank Lampard, who signed Tarkowski as Everton -Baas during his Stint, started 112 league in a row for Chelsea between December 2002 and December 2005.
Tarkowski has played every top match since he came to Everton in 2022, with the last time he missed a Premier League match that came at the end of the 2021-22 campaign while he was in Burnley.
Former Liverpool, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa and Tottenham goalkeeper Brad Friedel owns the record of all time for successive Premier League-Starts, with 310.
Only Murillo (213) from Nottingham Forest has made more approvals in the Premier League than Tarkowski (209), while he has informed 135, more than any other player in the division.