As it stands, Chelsea now sit five points ahead of second-placed Liverpool and can extend their lead to six or eight points with a draw or win at The Lane.
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Spurs then had an effort just past the 20-minute mark, with Christian Eriksen hitting a long-range shot which just flew past the corner of the net. The other situations are not important for us. That said, extending the gap at the top of the table to eight points would be huge, particularly with key matches against Liverpool and Arsenal – the teams that handed Conte his only two defeats in the Premier League to date – approaching.
Pochettino is making increasingly regular use of a back three this season, but it was also a common situational shape coming off of last season’s 4-2-3-1, with Eric Dier moving between the centre-backs and in turn allowing the full-backs to push up. “Maybe now we are Leicester”. They often take on the responsibilities of both defenders and attackers and they’re typically some of the fittest and most versatile players in their teams. Chelsea play three centre halves but Gary Cahill had gone out wide to engage Kyle Walker, while David Luiz was more concerned with stepping up than marking the attacker.
Where he goes from here, we can only imagine – but Dele Alli has a bright, bright future. I want to achieve it.
“We must be proud about this because it’s a great achievement, 13 wins in a row – above all now in this league, with these players and these coaches”, Conte added. The Toffees lie seventh in that table but are nine points off the top six and it is clear Koeman is not entirely happy with his playing staff as he looks to make big changes but he will be happy with Gueye who has been an outstanding performer in central midfield playing a Kante type role.
It was his seventh goal in four league games and third straight game with two goals.
“The manager has come, he’s applied his ideas and things are going well”, the 28-year-old striker told the British media.
However, they’ll be up against an in-form Tottenham side who’ve won their last four games including consecutive 4-1 away victories so Chelsea know they’ll be in for a stern test this evening. It was unlike anything we’ve seen in more than a decade and only once before. But it’s over and now, for the first time since September 24 (!), we can say that Chelsea have lost. That something came in the form of a cross from Eriksen, with young Dele Alli rising up to meet it, curling a header past Thibaut Courtois and inside the far post to give Spurs a crucial lead.
The NIgerian has scored thrice this term in the EPL.
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Harry Kane, Delle Ali and Dany Rose are all expected to feature in the starting line-up of the Chelsea vs Tottenham Hotspur vs Chelsea encounter in the English Premier League 2016-17.
