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Coming into the match, you could excuse Watford for wanting to be a little conservative. They suffered a tough 1-0 loss to Millwall in the FA Cup over the weekend and were facing an Arsenal side who had not lost at home since the first match of the season. Watford had failed to even score […]
Manchester City were without doubt the biggest losers in the race for Premier League title at the week — and are now out of for chase for the honour, so says coach Pep Guardiola. City slumped to a shock 4-0 thumping at the hands of Everton and they are now 10 points behind leaders Chelsea. The reverse […]
Chelsea boss Antonio Conte will ask his charges to step up to the plate once more to help the Blues maintain their position at the top of the Premier League on Saturday. The Stamford Bridge outfit lost last time out when they missed out on a record 14 wins in the top flight following a […]
The Premier League title race is bubbling along nicely as far as the neutral observer is concerned with still up to six teams arguably in the hunt for the top flight crown. Chelsea top the pile and face Stoke City next time of asking when they host Mark Hughes’ outfit at Stamford Bridge on New Year’s […]
In the last minute of Arsenal’s 1-0 win over Fulham, Olivier Giroud was sent off for his challenge on Stanislav Manolev. Whilst his foot was high and he made contact with the player, it is hard to see how it was a red card offence. One might suspect Andre Marriner was trying to level the […]
Fernando Torres has now scored 20 goals for Chelsea this season, a goal tally that betters the likes of Wayne Rooney (16), Carlos Tevez (16), Olivier Giroud (16), Sergio Aguero (14), Dimitar Berbatov (13) and Eden Dzeko (13), yet he is still widely regarded as a flop after the £50m Roman Abramovich forked out for […]
