Chelsea maintained their 100 per cent start under new head coach Sonia Bompastor with a 5-0 victory at Goodison Park that sent hosts Everton to the bottom of the Women’s Super League.

Former Everton loanee Aggie Beever-Jones, Erin Cuthbert and Guro Reiten all scored in the first half, before Dutch teenager Wieke Kaptein’s first goal for the club was followed by Ashley Lawrence’s close-range finish.

Bompastor has won all seven matches in domestic competition and the Women’s Champions League since replacing Emma Hayes during the summer and her team – a point behind leaders Manchester City with a game in hand – always looked comfortable on Merseyside.

Chelsea dominated a first half in which they managed 17 shots to Everton’s two and Reiten’s ability to find space in attacking areas caused the home side problems repeatedly, as did their attempts to play out from the back in the face of sharp Chelsea pressing.

Beever-Jones could have scored in the first 40 seconds, her shot patted down by goalkeeper Courtney Brosnan after good work by Reiten down the left and that set the tone.

Johanna Rytting Kaneryd volleyed well wide from close range following a ball in from Cuthbert but the visitors did lead in the 14th minute.

Beever-Jones got in front of teenage defender Issy Hobson to head in Kadeisha Buchanan’s cross from the right and perhaps send a message to England manager Sarina Wiegman, who left her on the bench for friendlies against Germany and South Africa during the recent international break.

Chelsea created five more good first-half chances after that without taking any of them, the most notable when Buchanan volleyed over from inside the six-yard box following a Reiten corner.

But the visitors then hurt Everton twice late in the half. In the 43rd minute, Cuthbert dispossessed a dawdling Veatriki Sarri, holding off the Greece defender before slotting in to make it 2-0.

A third goal arrived 15 seconds into first-half stoppage time, with Sjoeke Nusken given space to cross from the right and Reiten stretching to steer in at the far post via the goalkeeper.

Chelsea began the second half looking like a team determined to maintain their attacking threat, with Rytting Kaneryd striking the base of the post with a first-time shot from Beever-Jones’ cutback.

Everton, with just one league goal in six matches did improve though with Emma Bissell, a lively half-time replacement for Toni Payne, blazing over after a promising burst down the right.

Chelsea increased the pressure as Everton tired, with Sandy Baltimore unlucky to strike the crossbar with a fierce 25-yard shot.

And they did add a fourth in the 82nd minute, with Maelys Mpome forcing the ball in from the right, Reiten’s dummy fooling Megan Finnigan and Kaptein sweeping into the net.

A minute later, they scored again, with Oriane Jean-Francois getting free down the left and crossing low for Lawrence to finish.