Arsenal’s Welsh midfielder Aaron Ramsey attempts a shot on goal during the English Premier League football match between Arsenal and Sunderland at the Emirates Stadium in London on December 5, 2015.
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Two goals inside the opening 15 minutes from Stoke’s Austrian striker Marko Arnautovic, both created by Swiss playmaker Xherdan Shaqiri, condemned injury-hit Manchester City to defeat at a blustery Britannia Stadium.
Although he did provide an assist for Riyad Mahrez, who was the star of the show against Swansea on Saturday, bagging a hat-trick in the 3-0 win.
Swansea, who have been fantastic since their promotion to the top flight, are now really struggling.
Chelsea have 15 points after 15 Premier League games, with the Blues already 14 points behind fourth-placed Manchester United.
Chelsea’s first Premier League home defeat in their last 44 games against a newly-promoted side deepened the crisis at Stamford Bridge, but lifted Bournemouth out of the drop zone.
Pratt stated Valencia are looking at a summer move for the player as Foxes manager Claudio Ranieri will block any January exit.
And it’s been some history at 125-year-old Bournemouth, with the south-coast team coming close to being relegated from the fourth professional division in England and going out of business entirely over the last decade.
“The club deserve better than what we are giving them”. Chelsea is approaching the midway point of the season an alarming 17 points behind surprise leader Leicester.
Chelsea’s defeat put Manchester United’s frustrations into perspective.
Louis van Gaal can not point to the same luxury after the boos which cascaded down from the stands following the 0-0 draw, United’s sixth of the season, against West Ham.
The pre-match attention was inevitably focused on Leicester’s Jamie Vardy, who had set a Premier League record by scoring for an 11th successive game against Manchester United.
Jamie Vardy and Riyad Mahrez have now scored 24 league goals this season – two more than Real Madrid trio Cristiano Ronaldo, Gareth Bale and Karim Benzema combined.
Swansea manager Garry Monk told his post-match press conference: “I wouldn’t know anything about it”.
City manager Manuel Pellegrini says defense was his squads issue.
“Before this game it was realistic to think that our quality would take us out of this position, but maybe now we have to think about top six”.
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Fifth-place Tottenham Hotspur also failed to make ground on the teams above them, drawing 1-1 at West Bromwich Albion after James McClean cancelled out Dele Alli’s volleyed 15th-minute opener for Spurs.
