Sergio Aguero of Manchester City is the other player in double-digit scoring this term with 10 goals. If you have Costa, Hazard or Kane in your Fantasy Premier League team, feel free to make them your captain. Eric Bailly against Palace striker Christian Benteke is going to be an enthralling battle, as is whoever plays at left-back for United against the in-form Wilfried Zaha.
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Even more remarkable is that Alan Pardew’s side failed to score in their first two games, which means they’ve averaged more than two goals a game since.
Costa has scored 12 premier league goals while registering 4 assists this season to help Chelsea maintain a 3 points lead on top of the premier league table with 37 points. “But now if you ask me about Diego, I can talk well about his work rate, commitment and behaviour”, Conte told British media. If you can be destroyed by an ageing Fernando Llorente, imagine what kind of damage the still bizarrely youthful Costa could do.
Everton staged something of a coup to land Ronald Koeman as their new manager during the summer, and the first five league games – which brought four victories and a draw – could hardly have gone much better. “We hope we can grow him into a good centre-half”.
Chelsea have won nine Premier League games in succession, only two short of their record run in the competition.
That was back in January.
Liverpool are desperate for a response after their 2-2 draw with West Ham at the weekend, and they take on Middlesbrough at the Riverside Stadium on Wednesday.
It is a formula maybe only Liverpool are consistently matching, but they don’t have Chelsea’s defensive organisation, and, like City, have goalkeeping issues undermining their ambitions. Aitor Karanka will happily set up Boro to play for a 0-0 just as Jose Mourinho did at Old Trafford in October; and so he should. Middlesbrough haven’t lost to Liverpool in their last seven home matches winning three and drawing four although the last of these games was played in 2009. Having raised expectations this season, Liverpool are at risk of looking like failures by only competing for a top-four place. Luke Shaw is still unfit and Shkodran Mustafi has a hamstring injury that will keep him out of action for the next few weeks.
“And when you win and you have already scored, you smile at players”.
Arsenal need to have that belief that they can win the title. They have won nine straight EPL games including statement wins against Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur.
Sunderland have had some good results recently, but Saturday’s 3-0 defeat at Swansea City showed that their defence is far from solid.
Arsenal will also get some cakewalks after their face-offs against Everton and Manchester City.
Another bad decision in what has been a string of them on recruitment down the years.
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Chelsea show no sign of slowing up at the moment, but it would be a very pleasant surprise if they suffered an off-night against Moyes’ men.
