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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
49 mins: GOAL! WEST BROM 1 SWANSEA 0:
West Brom break the deadlock in the way that West Brom do so well. Salomon Rondon rose highest when Matt Phillips swung a set-piece into the Swansea box, and left Lukasz Fabianski with no chance as he powered his header home. It's a fifth Premier League goal of the season for the Venezuelan striker.
68 mins: GOAL! MIDDLESBROUGH 0 LIVERPOOL 3:
Divock Origi returns the favour of moments ago, and Adam Lallana has his second and Liverpool's third! Finding more joy down the right flank, the Belgian crossed low, two Middlesbrough defenders decided that was as good a time as any to take a nap, and Lallana slotted in.
Best of friends.
Are Divock Origi and Adam Lallana the new Gary Lineker and Willie Thorne?
61 mins: GOAL! WEST BROM 2 SWANSEA 0:
A first Premier League double for Salomon Rondon! A beautiful outswinging cross from Chris Brunt found the head of the Albion forward, and he planted a beautiful effort into the bottom left corner.
63 mins: GOAL! WEST BROM 3 SWANSEA 0:
A hat-trick for Salmon Rondon! A 13-minute hat-trick for Salomon Rondon! A 13-minute hat-trick of headers for Salomon Rondon! After Matt Phillips was crowded out on the edge of the box, Chris Brunt swung a deep left-footed over which Rondon looped into the top corner past Lukasz Fabianski. Sensational scenes!
63 mins: GOAL! TOTTENHAM 2 HULL 0:
And now Christian Eriksen has a double! The Dane was in the right place at the far post to convert after Kyle Walker had worked his way down the right and centered.
66 mins: GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 1:
James McArthur equalises at Selhurst Park! The home side had been pressing more and more in this second half, and they have their reward. An impudent flick from, of all people, Damian Delaney sent, of all people, McArthur free inside the penalty area. Having escaped from Pogba, the Scot kept his cool and sidefooted past David de Gea from close range.
70 mins: DISALLOWED GOAL! CRYSTAL PALACE 1 MANCHESTER UNITED 1:
Manchester United's players are fuming! Seconds after having appeals for a Crystal Palace handball inside the penalty area waved away, they have now had a goal chalked off - and it should have stood! Marcos Rojo headed down for Juan Mata to slide home, but celebrations were immediately cut short by the linesman's incorrect flag on the near side.
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