But a lot of games to play - we will see where we end up. Liverpool stuttered to a 1-0 win at home to West Ham on Saturday but have had little time to reflect on a slightly-underwhelming performance, with a Champions League last-16 second leg coming up at home to Inter Milan on Tuesday.
Napoli stay third after Andrea Petagna's goal gave them a 1-0 home win against Sampdoria. Hertha had to contend with coronavirus infections during the week.
Boro had dropped 16 points from winning positions prior to the Cherries' visit and, for a moment, it looked as though they might drop another two when substitute Junior Stanislas hit a fizzing low free-kick, though it was well batted away by Lumley.
Antonio Conte says his Tottenham team could feel the blood of their rivals and took advantage of their slips as they thrashed Aston Villa 4-0 at Villa Park.
If Chelsea do win their next three games and head into the festive fixtures on a positive note, then the past fortnight will soon be forgotten, and Tuchel's quality work behind-the-scenes will go back to being appreciated.
Brentford all but guaranteed another season of Premier League football after completing a first league double over West Ham in 68 years with a 2-0 victory.
When asked about the goal after the game, he said: It was a great ball from Oriol Romeu, I knew the defence were quite open there so I didn't think they would catch me from there.
Travis almost unknowingly scored an own goal to give Preston another lifeline, forcing a smart save from his keeper Kaminski, but the holding midfielder showed impressive composure to control and finish from Brereton Diaz's fine through-ball at the other end.
A mass email said that the England manager had acquired great wealth using a spurious trading platform.
Looking at the fixtures, Liverpool have the harder run-in but Jurgen Klopp will be approaching every game one at a time.
Hopefully, France Football could deliver it to you and you can have it in your home. You were the rightful winner [last year]. It couldn't happen because of the pandemic, but I think you should also have it in your home.
Chelsea's crucial Premier League showdown with Liverpool was completely overshadowed by record signing Romelu Lukaku being dropped from the home side's squad for Sunday's game.
Augsburg director Stefan Reuter said in a statement: We are delighted that Ricardo has decided to move to FCA despite the interest of numerous top international clubs.
The EFL said it hopes the review is a catalyst for positive change that can make clubs sustainable.
It was Scotland or Wales everyone wanted to draw. But everyone is taking it with a pinch of salt, knowing that Scotland have won their last six games.
“But the effort is something we define as a benchmark and a standard for us, so he gave everything in terms of work-rate.”
One further theory posited by Neville was that Ed Woodward's decision to leave the club at the end of 2021 was holding up any decision on Solskjaer's fate.
Former Liverpool and England goalkeeper David James will help conduct the draw alongside Arsenal Women captain Leah Williamson.
In fact, with Pogba allowed to open talks with other clubs in January, the odds of him remaining a United player creep ever higher.
The home side wanted Hanlon off for a straight red card when the Hibs defender wiped out Shinnie on the edge of the box, but the centre-back got away with a yellow.
Discussing his decision to succeed Dean Smith with Villa’s official website and how he has progressed to this point, Gerrard has said: “For me, it was about starting from the beginning and putting the blocks in place; really learning from the start, going away from the cameras initially, taking the youth team at Liverpool, they were a big support to me.
Beuker arrives at the Scottish League One side from Dutch club AZ Alkmaar, where he has spent the past 15 years as a sport development director.
United remained in the top six despite the setback, but four teams sit within three points of them in a crowded play-off race.
“It’s unbelievably difficult. We are still in three competitions and we play City; you saw how difficult that was. How could I sit here now and think about other cups? We play Benfica tomorrow and how can I sit here thinking about winning the Champions League? I don’t.
Meanwhile, Real Madrid travelled north to San Sebastian and left with a statement 2-0 win against Real Sociedad on Saturday to move eight points clear at the top of La Liga.
It's not a fluke - when Chris Wilder was at Northampton and Oxford, he's performed miracles everywhere he's been.
Despite the Ligue 1 champions being thumped 5-1 by the current leaders, the 21-year-old was shocked to find Argentina legend Lionel Messi asking to swap shirts with him.
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Aided by superb defending, with Cooper and Diego Llorente repeatedly making crucial blocks, tackles or interceptions, Leeds will feel they got the point their hard work merited, and, with a tough run of fixtures coming up, will be happy with the result.
What the managers saidSt Mirren manager Jim Goodwin: It was a brilliant goal. In the first half of the season we found ourselves on the wrong end of those types of games.
So as long as you do not concede, you have a chance to create and score and that is the focus the manager wants to have.
The pressure and threats exerted by UEFA reached such an extreme that nine of the 12 clubs had to publicly announce their will to withdraw from the project regardless of the binding commitments they had signed and which could not be legally broken. UEFA began an investigation into Real Madrid, Barcelona and Juventus over the plan but in June it suspended the process after the European Super League Company SL, set up by the rebel clubs, obtained a court order in Madrid against the probe.
The signing of Bruun is the biggest deal of the WSL January transfer window after the 23-year-old won the title in France at Paris-Saint Germain last season.
The expected goals data, which measures the quality of the chances rather than the quantity, reflects positively on Vieira too.
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Mr Malone, who has placed huge bets on sports by engineering the takeovers of Formula One motor racing and the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball team, is said to have lodged a credible offer for Chelsea.
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Bayern’s second and third followed this exact pattern. Without flinching, Lewandowski dispatched goals 299 and 300 with assured finishes after Sane’s teasing through balls.
It comes after several of the Blues's best talents were poached by other clubs with more than half a dozen leaving for other academies and first teams.
Eder Militao missed his clearance as last man which allowed Mahrez through on goal. We did many good things.
Jonny Hayes and Jack MacKenzie are back in training and could return from injury but Marley Watkins (foot) remains out, along with long-term absentees Andy Considine and Mikey Devlin.
Had they achieved the same performance levels and results in reaching the last 16 of the Europa League, the figure would have been €8.74m (£7.33m) and in the Europa Conference League it would be €6.32m (£5.3m).
