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Your support makes all the difference.Chelsea can extend their lead at the top of the Premier League table with victory at the home of basement club Sunderland.
Antonio Conte's side have won each of their last nine league games but David Moyes' men will hope they can frustrate the league leaders and lift themselves off the foot of the table.
Kick-off: 7.45pm
Wednesday's Premier League fixtures
- Middlesbrough vs Liverpool (7.45pm)
- Sunderland vs Chelsea (7.45pm)
- West Ham United vs Burnley (7.45pm)
- Crystal Palace vs Manchester United (8.00pm)
- Manchester City vs Watford (8.00pm)
- Stoke City vs Southampton (8.00pm)
- Tottenham Hotspur vs Hull City (8.00pm)
- West Bromwich Albion vs Swansea City (8.00pm)
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It’s a big game for…
Diego Costa: With Eden Hazard sidelined with a slight knock, even more pressure rests on the powerful forward’s shoulders to produce the goals for Chelsea tonight. Costa will need to deliver on Wearside if the Blues are to maintain their winning run and extend their gap at the top of the table to six points.
Weird /best stat…
19: Chelsea have won 19 of the last 23 Premier League meetings and haven't lost successive games against Sunderland since March 2001.
Remember when…
Chelsea 1 (Eto’o) Sunderland 2 (Wickham, Borini), April 2014
Former Chelsea forward Fabio Borini came back to haunt to Blues in 2014 with a late penalty which dented the home side’s fading title hopes and gave Sunderland a hope of survival with four games to go.
Player to watch…
Victor Moses: Arguably the club’s most improved player, Moses has reinvented himself as a highly competent wing-back under Antonio Conte this season. Despite his added defensive responsibilities, Moses still looks to get forward and provide width for Chelsea at every opportunity.
Past three-meetings…
SUNDERLAND 3 (Khazri, Borini, Defoe) CHELSEA 2 (Costa, Matic), May 2016
CHELSEA 3 (Ivanovic, Pedro, Oscar) SUNDERLAND 1 (Borini), December 2015
CHELSEA 3 (Costa, Remy 2) SUNDERLAND 1 (Fletcher), May 2015
Form guide…
SUNDERLAND: LWLWWL
CHELSEA: WWWWWW
Vital information…
KICK-OFF TIME: 7:45
TV: Highlights on BBC One at 10:45
14 mins: GOAL! TOTTENHAM 1 HULL 0:
Danny Rose and Christian Eriksen were two of Tottenham's better performers at Old Trafford on Sunday, and the two have just combined to break Hull's early resistance at White Hart Lane. The left-back burst into the box before pulling a cross back for the Dane to slot home past David Marshall.
29 mins: GOAL! MIDDLESBROUGH 0 LIVERPOOL 1:
Another goal for Adam Lallana has Liverpool in the lead at the Riverside Stadium. Georginio Wijnaldum searched out the marauding Nathaniel Clyne on the right with a crossfield pass, and the full-back's whipped cross into the middle was met powerfully by the head of the arriving Lallana. Victor Valdes had no chance, and the England man, recently back from injury, continues his scintillating scoring form.
20 mins: Crystal Palace 0 Manchester United 0: Eric Bailly chose to stay on and run off his early knock, and it may be a decision he is regretting right now. Having recovered from one injury, the makeshift right-back has just been booted on the knee by Lee Chung-Yong.
23 mins: RED CARD! STOKE 0 SOUTHAMPTON 0:
Marko Arnautovic has been dismissed at the Britannia Stadium, and Stoke City are down to ten men. It's the cause of confusion on the wires as early reports state it is as a result of two bookings, but it now appears that the Austrian has been given a straight red by referee Anthony Taylor after he lunged into the back of Sofiane Boufal.
40 mins: GOAL! SUNDERLAND 0 CHELSEA 1:
The leaders lead! Having won possession in midfield, Chelsea broke at pace and when Willian slipped a pass into the path of Cesc Fabregas from the right, the Spaniard midfielder curled a peach of a shot into the bottom right corner of Jordan Pickford's goal from the edge of the box.
45+2 mins: PENALTY! WEST HAM 0 BURNLEY 0:
Penalty to West Ham! On the brink of half-time, Andy Carroll won a Dimitri Payet corner in the air and as Winston Reid went to poke home, he was impeded by Ben Mee. Referee Bobby Madley pointed to the spot, and the Londoners have a great opportunity to take the lead.
33 mins: GOAL! MANCHESTER CITY 1 WATFORD 0:
Breakthrough for Manchester City! Raheem Sterling and Nolito combined to work the ball out to Kevin De Bruyne on the left from where the Belgian chipped a cross into the Watford danger area. Forwards and defenders missed their connections alike, but that allowed the ball to travel through to Pablo Zabaleta at the far post, who poked a shot past Heurelho Gomes on the half-volley.
45+3 mins: GOAL! WEST HAM 1 BURNLEY 0:
Mark Noble has his penalty saved by Burnley goalkeeper Tom Heaton, but the West Ham captain reacts quickest to fire home the loose ball from the rebound. Slaven Bilic's men will once again go in at half-time in front. Can they hold on this time is the question?
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