Football
Chelsea beat bottom placed
club Sunderland 1-0 to record their tenth straight Premier League victory. The
Stamford Bridge club are now sitting pretty, six points clear of both Arsenal
and Liverpool.
Liverpool beat Middlesbrough
3-0 in the midweek league programme, with two goals from Adam Lallana, but
Arsenal suffered their first league defeat since the opening day of the season
when they lost 2-1 to Everton.
Manchester City stay fourth,
seven points off the pace, after seeing off Watford 2-0.
Fifth placed Tottenham beat struggling
Hull 3-0 - Christian Eriksen netting twice - and a late winner from Zlatan
Ibrahimovic gave sixth placed Manchester United a 2-1 win over Crystal Palace.
Seventh placed West Brom
continued their good recent run with a 3-1 win over Swansea. Salomon Rondon
scored a second half hat-trick in the space of 13 minutes.
Leicester and Burnley both
failed to halt their appalling run in away matches. The two sides lost 1-0 to
Bournemouth and West Ham respectively. Their result lifts West Ham to 15th
place.
The bottom five clubs are now
Crystal Palace (16th), Middlesbrough (17th), Swansea (18th),
Hull (19th) and Sunderland (20th). All five teams tasted
defeat in the latest round of matches.
Stoke and Southampton fought
out a goalless draw.
Good news for Manchester City
and Chelsea is that they will not face a points deduction after the mass brawl
near the end of their recent Premier League clash. The two clubs have only been
fined.
Brazilian midfielder Oscar
has opted to leave Chelsea, and will complete a £60 million move to Chinese
side Shanghai in the January transfer window.
City will be without Ilkay
Gundogan for several months after he suffered a serious knee injury.
Newcastle won 2-0 at Wigan to
stay top of the Championship. Brighton remain one point behind after beating
Blackburn 3-2, but third placed Reading are now a further eight points off the
pace, having lost 2-0 to Leeds this week.
Gianfranco Zola is back in
English football. The Italian has been appointed as manager of Championship
side Birmingham City, who sacked Gary Rowett this week. Birmingham are
currently eighth in the table.
Stourbridge, from the seventh
tier of English football, booked their place in the third round of the FA Cup
with a 1-0 win over League One high flyers Northampton in a delayed second
round match. The Midlands club will play Wycombe in the third round.
Rugby Union
England captain Dylan Hartley
has been banned for six weeks after his red card for striking an opponent
during Northampton’s European clash with Leinster. This means he will be
available for the full Six Nations campaign.
Cricket
Stuart Broad is hopeful of
being fit for the fifth Test between England and India, which starts in Chennai
on Friday. However, fellow pace bowler James Anderson has been ruled out,
apparently because of more issues with his shoulder injury that kept him out of
the early part of the series. India have already won the series, after winning
the fourth Test to take an unassailable 3-0 lead.
Tipster Street.
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