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Chelsea overcomes early pressure to beat Premier League leaders Manchester City with a late penalty at Stamford Bridge last night.
Man City took the lead after only two minutes when Mario Balotelli went round Petr Cech to score after a great through-ball from Sergio Aguero.  At that point it looked like it was going to be [...]

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Another great weekend of Premier League games including two greatly anticipated matches – Liverpool away to Tottenham & Chelsea travelling to Manchester United just seven days after they destroyed Arsenal 8-2 at Old Trafford.
I don’t think anyone could have expected Liverpool to be so poor.  They never got off the bus, as one cliché goes; [...]

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So, now we know the four semi-finalists for this season’s Champions League, two Spanish clubs and one from England and Germany.
Barcelona, Real Madrid and Schalke 04 all but booked their places after first leg goal fests against Shakhtar Donetsk, Tottenham and Inter Milan respectively but Chelsea only trailed Manchester United by one goal when they [...]

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While the other home nations played in the Nations Cup, Aston Villa’s Darren Bent and Ashley Young scored the goals to give England a victory on Wednesday 2-1 over Denmark in an international friendly.
Sports betting fans knew that the game had little meaning overall in the grand scheme of things but as friendlies go, the [...]

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Since Jose Mourinho was appointed manager, Chelsea’s success has been achieved by playing a 4-3-3 formation.  Both Carlo Ancelotti and Felippe Scolari flirted with a 4-4-2 with Frank Lampard as the figurehead of a diamond-shaped midfield.  The formation left Chelsea playing very narrow, and stifled Frank Lampard as a playmaker and top goal scoring attacking [...]

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