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COMMENTATOR: Just brilliant, just brilliant! | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
COMMENTATOR: What a turn, what a goal! | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
COMMENTATOR: Look at that. Oh, look at that! | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
Ibrahimovic! What a brilliant goal. A world-class finish from a | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
world-class player. He's scored again. The Venezuelan has a | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
hat-trick. The champions' travel sickness continues. The penalty is | :01:01. | :01:07. | |
given! Billings gets the win in what he described as a much win game. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
Sooner or later they knew Middlesbrough would switch on. | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
Really professional from Middlesbrough tonight. Ten wins in a | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
row for Antonio Conte's table topping blues. | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
It's the season of goodwill and a feast of football. | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
Just a few days after their midweek exertions, 12 teams were back | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
in action, including the leaders and title favourites, Chelsea. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Joining us in the studio - Scrooge and Tiny Tim. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
We'll leave you to work out which one is Danny Murphy | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
Chelsea were six points clear at the top going | :01:40. | :01:44. | |
Steve Wilson was at Selhurst Park to see if they could make | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
Stranger things have happened, but arguably not many. Palace with seven | :01:50. | :02:01. | |
defeats in ten take on Chelsea, with ten wins in ten. With 11 injuries, | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
getting tougher. Alan Pardew CHEERING AND BOOING | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
Changes. Flamini the latest injury. Joe Ledley and Jason Puncheon come | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
in. 2-macro changes for Chelsea, Fabregas and Pedro substitutes. | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
Matic and Hazard return. Embolo can take one of four Chelsea start as an | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
4-macro yellow cards, could become the first man to play in | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
back-to-back Premier League title winning teams at different clubs. | :02:33. | :02:39. | |
It's not exactly a pea soup. You wouldn't want to be on the back row | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
of the upper tier in this fog. I'm not sure how much of the other end | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
of the ground you would see. Eden Hazard, Diego Costa. Willian. It's a | :02:51. | :02:59. | |
free kick to Chelsea. He only has eyes for the Chelsea player. Gets a | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
yellow card. Willian standing right over the ball. David Luiz has given | :03:07. | :03:12. | |
himself a run-up, it could be one of his side foot dippers. It's David | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
Luiz through the wall. Behind Jo Ward, who conceded the free kick, | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
then blocked it. Alan Pardew is the longest serving Crystal Palace | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
manager since Neil Warnock's first spell from 2007-2010. Palace have | :03:28. | :03:36. | |
made seven managerial changes since. Joe Ledley space on the right, | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
looking for Kelly. Kelly going to reach this first. Dangerous. Wide by | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Puncheon, first really clear opportunity of the game for Crystal | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
Palace. Well met, Puncheon. Then the finish wasn't there. Make no mistake | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
about it, if Crystal Palace do come away with a 0-0 draw against Chelsea | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
today they'll feel it's been a good day's work. Trip by Yegor Coster, | :04:04. | :04:16. | |
free kick to Crystal Palace. Yohan Cabaye is... -- trip by Diego Costa. | :04:17. | :04:23. | |
Diego Costa will not feature against Bournemouth in Chelsea's next game, | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
his fifth yellow card of the season. And ball by Angola condo. Looks like | :04:31. | :04:45. | |
it. -- handball by Kante. Ball in the air. MacArthur, who's scored | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
five times this season meeting it. Chelsea haven't really troubled | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
Crystal Palace. Nor have they been unduly bothered at the other end. | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Just a couple of minutes of normal time to go in the first half. Hazard | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
waving Azpilicueta forward. Towards Diego Costa. Far too simple a goal | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
for Chelsea to score. Diego Costa gives them the lead just before | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
half-time. Palace static at the back. Chelsea are a very good side | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
but you don't need to be a very good side to score this, it's just | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
knocked up and Diego Costa simply heads it into the corner of the net. | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
, about as straightforward as they come. Diego Costa's 13th of the | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
season. Cahill reacting here. Yohan Cabaye, | :05:38. | :05:54. | |
well hit. Courtois had to get down to his left. A hint of threat here. | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
Cahill, straight to Cabaye, not sure it was on target, but neither was | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
Courtois. It will be Chelsea's 11th consecutive victory with nine clean | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
sheets in 11 games. It's not in the bag yet. Well saved by Hennessey. He | :06:11. | :06:23. | |
really caught that. Both goalkeepers have been busy in the first four and | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
a half minutes of the second half than they were for much of the first | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
three of the Chelsea's last five victories in this sequence of wind | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
have been by a single goal to nil, at Middlesbrough, home to West Brom, | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
then Sunderland. This wondering the same way. Fabregas around the corner | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
to Moses. Moses dangerous. A good header... Alonso side netting. Super | :06:47. | :06:52. | |
technique by Marcos Alonso, this was dropping from great height. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
Controlled the volley really well. Ledley. Delaney. | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
Benteke did well. We've seen him score with situations like that | :07:01. | :07:10. | |
before. Similar to a goal he scored for Liverpool at Old Trafford last | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
season. He scuffed it into the ground. Alonso to Diego Costa. | :07:15. | :07:25. | |
Trouble here. Moses to the right-hand side. Hazard, too. Back | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
to Victor Moses. Riding the challenge of Puncheon, hit by Konte. | :07:32. | :07:44. | |
The game might have been out of palace's reach. A good shot by | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
Hennessey. No foul. Puncheon unable to find Benteke. David Luiz picked | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
out Victor Moses here. Eden Hazard is furthest forward, but there are | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
others in white. Marcos Alonso's one of them. Good save by Hennessey, | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
nice height for him, to be fair. Hennessey is getting busier. Firmly | :08:07. | :08:14. | |
hit by Alonso. Two straight. Crystal Palace heading for a sixth home | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
league defeat of the season. Fabregas, another lovely ball from | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
Fabregas to Hazard. Left by Diego Costa. Did Delaney get the ball? Not | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
in the opinion of Jonathan Moss. Another good ball from Fabregas and | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
Delaney get the card. It's either David Luiz with his right or Marcos | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
Alonso with his left. Of the bar by Alonso! Cahill can't put the rebound | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
away. He felt he was fouled, Cahill, by Joel Ward, as he tried to knock | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
this into the back of the net. A really good free kick. Unlucky. Did | :08:54. | :09:01. | |
water then foul Gary Cahill? The Chelsea defender thought so. Chelsea | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
have had their chances to put this out of Crystal Palace's reach, and | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
they haven't, as yet, done so. Townsend driven in. Fabregas out. | :09:10. | :09:19. | |
Caught by Cesc Fabregas, free kick Crystal Palace. Those hopes Dale | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
Palace fans in good voice, hopeful still, three minutes of added time | :09:26. | :09:34. | |
still to play. It absolutely flew miles over the crossbar. Got that | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
all wrong. He got it up all right. Was in the central London before it | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
came down again. It's 11 wins out of 11 for Antonio Conte. And Chelsea. | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
And another defeat for struggling Crystal Palace. Diego Costa with the | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
only goal in the closing moments of the first half. Chelsea go on. | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
Antonia, congratulations, 11 matches, to win them all is | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
something really special. -- Antonio. I'm pleased, I'm pleased | :10:09. | :10:15. | |
for my players, because they are deserving this. I see every day | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
every single moment, which is commitment during the training | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
session. The way that we prepare the game. And the way they fight in | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
every game. It's fantastic. Chelsea are in that mode at the minute where | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
they have confidence at the back, we talk about confidence going forward | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
but their confidence defensively, sound, don't make a mistake, all | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
doing their jobs, makes it difficult to find a breakthrough. If you look | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
at our goal-scoring record there not a problem with that. We couldn't | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
find a way through today. I'm there are four or five teams who will try | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
to catch first position. We still have many games, many hard games, so | :10:56. | :11:04. | |
we're not favourites, we are one of the teams who can win the title. | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
11 consecutive victories for Chelsea, looking pretty formidable | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
at the moment. Crystal Palace, they make them fight for it, didn't they? | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
They worked tremendously hard for the manager, well-organised, won a | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
lot of second balls, gave them a few problems in the second half, Jason | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
Puncheon missed a good chance. Defensively, Chelsea sound | :11:28. | :11:31. | |
well-balanced and confident defensively, didn't play brilliant | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
going forward but did enough, another great goal from Costa. There | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
doesn't seem to be a weakness in the side, I can't see one area in their | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
team they are struggling, fantastic for Chelsea supporters and worrying | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
for everybody else. The other thing, in tight games like that, if you've | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
got a striker like Costa, back to his imperious best, didn't half make | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
a difference. He's brilliant, in phenomenal form. It was the first | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
effort on goal. Crystal Palace were right in this game until this point. | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
Hazard doing what he does, getting involved, making Crystal Palace | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
work. This ball from Azpilicueta, he's picked up Diego Costa, not just | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
whipped in. One thing I wanted to look at, look at Delaney's face, | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
looking at his keeper, sorry, look at Scott Dann, looking at the | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
keeper, saying, you come and get this. I know what I'm doing, I'm | :12:24. | :12:27. | |
going to get my arm into Costa's chest, try to stop him. | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
Miscommunication between them, it cost them the goal. His positioning | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
needs to be further off his line, he gets caught in no man's land. If | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
he's further out he can be more commanding, he can take that. It was | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
a breakdown in communication between Scott Dann and Wayne Hennessey, the | :12:45. | :12:47. | |
one moment that cost Crystal Palace the game. You picked out Eden | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Hazard, he's back to his best this season. Sensational, I had to | :12:54. | :12:56. | |
picking out because he was the difference, he gives them so much. | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
-- picked him out. He's putting a shifting defensively as well. He's | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
so direct, looks fit, sharp, caused them all sorts of problems today. He | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
drifting off the left side, because he's got Alonso playing left | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
wingback role, doesn't have to be as wide, ends up drifting all over the | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
place, pops up as a ten, sometimes on the right side. He goes from zero | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
to 60 so quickly, he's got that wonderful balance and ability to go | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
past people. His decision-making, that's what I like he knows when to | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
dribble and when to pass, he's got the all-round game. He's playing as | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
he did when he won play of the year, this is what I'm talking about. | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
Awareness of people around him. Fabregas should have done better. | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
It's the speed he can travel, he goes past people so easily, it's the | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
low centre of gravity. This is his passing ability, is not just a | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
dribbler. Must be a nightmare to play against. He gets his team up | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
the pitch, when you need a player to get you from a to B really quickly, | :13:58. | :14:03. | |
he's your man. It's obvious the midweek break did him a bit of good, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
he looks the freshest player on the pitch today. Though he didn't score | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
or make a goal, he was sensational for long periods. Our Chelsea going | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
to run away with it, that is the question. The danger to many teams. | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
As it stands nought they are out and out favourites. Nine points clear. | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
Manchester United are giving it a go now. Spurs. That chasing pack, | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Liverpool are the team that are favourites to catch them. They have | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
defensive issues. I think they are the favourites to take it. I agree. | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
Two home games coming up which they would expect to win, which would | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
give them a lead. If they keep everyone fit, they are favourites | :14:43. | :14:43. | |
for me. OK. In the Premier League, | :14:44. | :14:46. | |
it's fair to say the first half of Leicester's 2016 has been rather | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
better than the second! Ahead of their match at Stoke, | :14:50. | :14:51. | |
they'd taken just one It was quite a game, | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
watched by Alistair Mann. COMMENTATOR: This time last season | :14:55. | :15:01. | |
Leicester hadn't lost an away game. They did though come close here ASBO | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
January helped Stoke to a 2-0 lead before the visitors rescued a point | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
with two second-half goals. Bojan comes in for Arnautovic, they have a | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
trio of alteration. Mike e a boost for Leicester, they have not kept a | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
clean sheet in any of the eight games he missed with a broken hand. | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
They have not kept an away day shut out since April in the League. That | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
was the last time they gathered three points on their travels. | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
Clever ball, actually. Picks out Allen. A lovely effort from Walters. | :15:43. | :15:56. | |
Great football from Stoke. Excellent stop from Schmeichel. Great move, | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Bojan and Allen and Walters. It's a great stop, actually. That is just | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
the kind of save that he was making last season. Why he's been such a | :16:07. | :16:12. | |
big miss. Simpson, Mahrez, King. I think he was caught there, Mahrez. | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
He was. The referee wants a little word with Erik Pieters. Just went | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
through the back of him a little bit. The opening 10 minutes have | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
fairly zipped by. No goals, but opportunities, that's for sure. | :16:29. | :16:30. | |
Here's Fuchs. Morgan, Fuchs, again. Now, King. | :16:31. | :16:42. | |
Still plenty in there. Huth was one of them. Grant, on the stretch, just | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
helped it over the bar with the finger tips. Wasn't an easy header | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
for Robert Huth. A decent stop, actually. Canons off the back of him | :16:53. | :17:01. | |
and straight to Mahrez. Still going, Mahrez, Vardy. Good shot, a decent | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
save by Grant. I think it might have hit a Stoke player on the way | :17:08. | :17:12. | |
through, actually. Vardy hit it. There is a little deflection off the | :17:13. | :17:24. | |
back of the player. Beaten to it by Johnson. Vardy goes crashing in on | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
Diouf. The referee's gone to the pocket - and it's red! Vardy went | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
hurtling into the loose ball and he catches Diouf and Craig Pawson went | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
straight to the pocket, no he is station. Red card, Vardy goes. Well | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
Craig Pawson only has one look at this. He saw the speed of the | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
challenge and that both of Vardy's feet were off the floor when he goes | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
to make it. Even though he gets the ball, which he most definitely does, | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
the referee believes that he was out of control as he made it. That's why | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
Vardy gets his marching orders. Look at his gestures. Keep it calm. | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Relax. Don't get carried away. Here's Johnson. Great ball in. | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
Headed away by Simpson. Gathereded in by Bojan. Oh, that's a handball. | :18:19. | :18:26. | |
That's a penalty. It just looked like Simpson handled it as he slid | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
to try and block the cross. There's a yellow card for Simpson, as well. | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
Bojan, as he put the cross in, appealed for the penalty, and his | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
hand is above his head and it's a penalty. Well, Bojan missed a | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
penalty against Bournemouth about a month ago. But he's entrusted with | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
the responsibility, nonetheless. And this time, he obliges. The defending | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
champions maybe heading for yet another away day defeat. Leicester's | :19:00. | :19:07. | |
first task with 10-men was to get to the half-time interval at 0-0. They | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
haven't managed it. Bojan, who scored twice before against | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Leicester, does so again from the penalty spot today. Here's Johnson. | :19:15. | :19:25. | |
He's been caught. Albrighton with the foul. A yellow card for | :19:26. | :19:28. | |
Albrighton. Half the out field players are now in the referee's | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
notebook and Vardy's in the dressing room. So ale free-kick to Stoke. Off | :19:33. | :19:42. | |
the inside of the post. Allen makes it two. Stoke City have made | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Leicester City's first half about as miserable as it could be. The look | :19:48. | :19:53. | |
on the face of the visiting manager says everything. Imbula slammed it | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
against the near-post. Allen couldn't miss the rebound. Leicester | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
looking for an offside. One flag was not forthcoming. It's just going | :20:04. | :20:09. | |
from very, very bad to much, much worse for the defending champions | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
who are staring down the barrel of yet another away defeat. It's Stoke | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
City 2, Leicester City 0, and the referee, who is going to have to go | :20:20. | :20:23. | |
past the Leicester City supporters now to get to the dressing room, | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
he's going to get some fearful stick from the visiting supporters. | :20:29. | :20:39. | |
Johnson, Bojan gets it. Now Diouf. Walters, on the far side. Great save | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
by Schmeichel. That's brilliant goalkeeping. Morgan feels as though | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
it should have been a foul. The referee waved play on. The header | :20:50. | :20:56. | |
was great, the save outstanding. A double change for Leicester. | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
Leonardo Ulloa is one. Demarai Gray is another. Slimani makes way. So | :21:02. | :21:10. | |
too Albrighton. It was inevitable they would start to take players off | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
with the energy they expended trying to keep in the game. Demarai Gray is | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
always happy to take on a sprint challenge. The cross is a beauty. | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
Off the line. Technology says it crossed. It's 2-1. Ulloa's first | :21:29. | :21:33. | |
contribution since coming on is to put Leicester back into a game that | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
they were seemingly out of. Great ball by one substitute, Gray, headed | :21:40. | :21:47. | |
by Ulloa. Off the line by Shawcross, but the technology says it's a goal. | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
You can see exactly why. Claudio Ranieri had a decision to make about | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
his substitutions. He brought on Ulloa and Demarai Gray. The two | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
combined within moments. Leicester are back in the hunt. Here's Demarai | :22:04. | :22:11. | |
Gray, again. Oh, the deflection could have taken it anywhere. They | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
will be immensely proud of their players. They have not capitulated. | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
2-0 down at half-time, with 10-men. They have been probing and searching | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
and now they've halved the deficit. Leicester City throw. | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
Fuchs is winding up a long throw. Morgan is in there. Huth is up from | :22:33. | :22:46. | |
the back. All those who came up for the long throw might as well remain. | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
The cross is a great one. And Amartey, what a wonderful | :22:55. | :22:57. | |
performance from Leicester City. You can't say they haven't merited it. A | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
Amartey's header, right in front of Lee Grant. It gives the equaliser to | :23:04. | :23:11. | |
Leicester City. Real brave, brave header. He knew the goalkeeper was | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
coming, Amartey. He got there, just in front of Grant. And he plants the | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
header into the net and goes to join the Leicester City supporters, who | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
will feel as though this is a victory, not just a draw. If looks | :23:27. | :23:37. | |
could kill. Allen helps it on, Walters. Amartey with the tackle. | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
Morgan gets it away. Imbula. Wheelen. -- Whelan. Schmeichel with | :23:45. | :24:00. | |
the save. He made excellent saves, Schmeichel, to keep Leicester in | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
this game. 10 out of 10 for his team. 10 out of 10 for him. Well the | :24:05. | :24:12. | |
wlisle blows and the cheers are coming from the away end, the | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
Leicester City supporters. A quite extraordinary performance from the | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
defending champions. Everything stacked up against them, but they | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
had enormous belief, enormous character, it's's Stoke City 2, it's | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
Leicester City 2. Defending champion performance. It was a fantastic | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
spirit. We wanted to fight until the end, it was important for us at this | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
point to play well. We started very very, well after the sending off | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
everything changed with my players. My players were so nervous during | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
the half-time. We spoke a lot. We continued to believe something good | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
could be possible and they made it very fantastic performance. You must | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
be fuming after throwing away a two-goal lead? Yeah. We have made | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
our own problems in the second-half, in fairness. The first half I | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
thought we were excellent and we are in good shape. The second-half you | :25:11. | :25:12. | |
know Leicester will come at you, that is why he this were champions | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
last year. They have good energy and they will always ask questions. | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Leicester were incensed about the sending off. Two-footed tackle. | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
Hughes said it was a two-footed challenge from Jamie Vardy and | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
diserved to be sent off. What was your view? One manager said yes, | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
another said no. I felt like he was being impedestrianed first of all. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
He saw the ball and got the ball cleanly iechl' not sure what the | :25:43. | :25:44. | |
referee saw. Watching from the stands what has been the problem for | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
Leicester this season. It hasn't been easy at all-time, has it? It | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
was never going to be easy. We have had good performances and we haven't | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
had the rub of the green. Last year we did. You make your own luck when | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
you work as hard as we did, especially the second-half, you get | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
what you deserve. It was an amazing comeback from Leicester. Craig | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
Pawson, the referee, had an interesting after knob, didn't he? | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
Another one. We talk about the red card. An interesting week? He has. I | :26:13. | :26:18. | |
have sympathy with him. Obviously, the decision in midweek which we | :26:19. | :26:22. | |
will see now. Which he didn't give. Which he didn't give. He got a bit | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
of stick for. You know, rightly so. That's a naughty challenge. | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
Obviously two-footed. Could have caused him some damage. Today's very | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
different for me. I don't think it's a red card, first and foremost. I | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
think Vardy is really unlucky. He's obviously thought of midweek and | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
saw... Johnson pushes Vardy a bit. Knocks him off balance. He actually | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
does leave the ground. You see a gap between Vardy and the ground. He | :26:50. | :26:52. | |
ends up winning the ball. One foot is ahead of the other. It's actually | :26:53. | :26:57. | |
a decent tackle, even if he is pushed off balance. Maybe, he might | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
have got a yellow, couldn't believe he got a red. I don't think it's aed | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
red card or Mark Hughes does. If that happened to his players he | :27:09. | :27:10. | |
would go mad. I think he is saying that. It inspired them. Really did. | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
Look at Bojan's face. I don't think he thought it was. It inspired them. | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
Eventually, 0-0, went to 2-0. To add insult to injury, they get a penalty | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
against Leicester, which was one of those that is sometimes they get | :27:25. | :27:29. | |
given and sometimes don't. What do you think in this instance? I | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
thought it was are ha shall. Trying it get the ball in the box. It's | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
been stopped. It's been impeded by his hand. I know what is going | :27:36. | :27:40. | |
through Simpson's mind here. He is at full stretching saying, all I | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
want to do is stop this cross. Look where his hand is. People talk about | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
unnatural hand position. If I'm trying to block a ball, I'm not | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
whipping it around the back of my neck and into that position to stop | :27:52. | :27:54. | |
the cross. It's not an unnatural position. It hit his hand. The | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
penalty was given. I personally don't th think it was a penalty. | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
They are given on a weekly basis. Leicester showed the spirit they | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
showed last season, didn't they? Brilliant second-half. All of them. | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
Well-organised. Full of energy. Full of endeavour and quality in the end. | :28:16. | :28:21. | |
Claudio Ranieri deserves credit because he made substitutions, two | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
of them, Demarai Gray and Leonardo Ulloa. They have been bit part | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
players, to be honest. 0 minutes. They come on. They had a point to | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
prove. I mine, Demarai Gray was sensation aal when he came on. He | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
ran forward, he put crosses in, dribbled. This is to get back to | :28:39. | :28:44. | |
2-1. Brilliant cross. We saw Ulloa do this many times last season. | :28:45. | :28:47. | |
Super attitude. Good header of the ball. There is the goalline | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
technology helping us. I don't think it would have been given if we | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
hadn't had it. It would be a tough one, wouldn't it? ? Yeah. He gave | :28:56. | :29:03. | |
them energy and dribbling. I don't know understand why he doesn't play | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
week in and week out. I watched him, every time he comes for Leicester he | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
always has an impact. I think he's... It will the not be long | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
before he gets the hump about not playing. | :29:16. | :29:20. | |
Great goal, he played really well, if anyone deserved to score, it was | :29:21. | :29:27. | |
him. Fantastic. Stoke two up against ten men, they'll be kicking | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
themselves. On such a good rental of things going so smooth, I don't know | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
if it was the complacency within the ranks, 2-0 up, man down, thinking we | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
would cruise this one, they were caught out. The booing at the end | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
was unnecessary from Stoke fans, Mark Hughes has been doing a | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
fantastic job. I put it down to the disappointment of losing the game | :29:51. | :29:52. | |
and Leicester fans at the other end of the stadium having a party. | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
Festive frustration. We've got four matches | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
for you still to come. Rooney. Good try. The arms of Valdes | :29:58. | :30:11. | |
stung by Sigurdsson. Roberts, he's hit the post. | :30:12. | :30:19. | |
West Brom were seven and Manchester United six after both had good wins | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
on Wednesday evening. They met at the Hawthorns, | :30:24. | :30:25. | |
commentary from Steve Bower. Finally Manchester United are | :30:26. | :30:32. | |
turning performances into points, West Brom were in that group before | :30:33. | :30:37. | |
them as they go in search of their fourth consecutive home win. Salomon | :30:38. | :30:43. | |
Rondon leaves West Brom's attack as they look for a fourth consecutive | :30:44. | :30:47. | |
home victory. It was the Venezuelan's goal that settled the | :30:48. | :30:51. | |
fixture last season. Wayne Rooney has scored seven in nine Premier | :30:52. | :30:54. | |
League games against the baggies, another today would finally equal | :30:55. | :31:01. | |
Sir Bobby Charlton's club record. He hasn't scored since the opening | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
weekend in the league. Tony Pulis has only ever been Manchester United | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
twice in 14 games in the Premier League as manager. He's lost 11 of | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
those as well. Strength, fair strength, from Nyom. Nyom came | :31:16. | :31:26. | |
across. Lingard, isn't going to get a penalty for that. A look in hope | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
rather than anything else towards Anthony Taylor. Long from Valencia. | :31:31. | :31:39. | |
Lingard with a first-time cross. Ibrahimovic, as clinical as that. | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
Inside the first five minutes, Manchester united with their first | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
real attack, score the first goal. And it is him again, Zlatan | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
Ibrahimovic. Six in six in the Premier League now. Made by Lingard. | :31:56. | :32:02. | |
First-time cross. Ibrahimovic in his form in front of goal wasn't going | :32:03. | :32:07. | |
to miss that. He went six league games without a goal and has now | :32:08. | :32:11. | |
scored six in the following six, perfect start for him and Manchester | :32:12. | :32:16. | |
United. The dropper Bob Zlatan Ibrahimovic, in the words of Jose | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
Mourinho. To give Manchester United the need. -- the undroppable | :32:23. | :32:38. | |
Ibrahimovic. Nice touch from Dawson. Brunt's cross blocked by Rojo. West | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
Brom get their first corner of the game. Nine of West Brom's 23 goals | :32:43. | :32:48. | |
this season have come from headers. Manchester United will have worked | :32:49. | :32:51. | |
on this kind of situation, trying to defend it. Whipped in by Brunt, | :32:52. | :32:57. | |
right across the face. It was Olsson who got a touch. What an inviting | :32:58. | :33:04. | |
delivery. But in between the two defenders, Olsson, just couldn't | :33:05. | :33:10. | |
steer it on target. Rooney will chase that. Four forward for | :33:11. | :33:20. | |
Manchester United. Pogba. Into Lingard. In the penalty area nobody | :33:21. | :33:25. | |
at the moment. There is now. Rooney. Good try. Off the bar. Cleared by | :33:26. | :33:34. | |
Fletcher. For a split second Wayne Rooney thought this was the record | :33:35. | :33:38. | |
equalling goal, clean strike, terrific save from Ben Foster. | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
Former Manchester United goalkeeper. To touch that under the crossbar. | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
Manchester United, goal number 249. Still not forthcoming. That was a | :33:50. | :33:57. | |
strong charge by Ibrahimovic on Dawson. A yellow card coming. From | :33:58. | :34:04. | |
Anthony Taylor. One was viewed in the week at Crystal Palace, no | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
charge forthcoming. Definitely a booking forthcoming here. Yellow for | :34:10. | :34:14. | |
the Manchester United goal-scorer. Watch his eyes, he was always going | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
to be late. Nowhere near the ball. Phillips. Taking on Valencia and | :34:20. | :34:28. | |
getting the cross in. Rondon. After his three headers on Wednesday, he | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
had half a chance of another one there. In between the two defenders | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
he'll be disappointed he wasn't able to get out on target. First real | :34:37. | :34:40. | |
opportunity West Brom have fashioned so far. The last minute of the first | :34:41. | :34:50. | |
half at the hawthorns. Parreira. Good strength from Valencia. Away by | :34:51. | :35:00. | |
McCauley. A chance for Lingard. A chance he should have done much | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
better with. His reaction tells you everything. When McCauley clear | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
that, made a mess of it, inadvertently came to Lingard. He | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
had so much time, he'd sat up beautifully on the volley for it. | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
Lingard who's got his first Manchester United goal against West | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
Brom should have scored against them again. Income Manchester United with | :35:22. | :35:27. | |
Pogba. ! In income Manchester United. Carrick has found Rooney. | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
Trying to go through the space himself, Ibrahimovic. That was the | :35:36. | :35:41. | |
right decision, two for Ibrahimovic, two for Manchester United. Ten | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
minutes of the second half gone and they have doubled their advantage. | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
Ibrahimovic now has ten goals in his last nine games in all competitions. | :35:52. | :35:57. | |
16 goals for Manchester United. Rooney might have been expecting it | :35:58. | :36:00. | |
back, wasn't getting it back. The Swede saw a little bit of light in | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
the corridor, shot was deflected, just off Dawson. That's what took it | :36:05. | :36:10. | |
into the bottom corner, past Foster. That's what it means to Jose | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
Mourinho, that's why he is undroppable. Ibrahimovic has 152 | :36:16. | :36:27. | |
league goals in his last 170 games. Rondon taking on Rojo. Rojo in the | :36:28. | :36:33. | |
end was equal to it. Rooney brought the cross. | :36:34. | :36:40. | |
What was first the emergency, then the unlikely defensive partnership | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
between Jones and Rojo. Rondon got involved with Rojo. Jones felt he | :36:48. | :36:53. | |
raised his hand. Anthony Taylor is going to have to defuse this | :36:54. | :37:02. | |
situation. Little nudge from Rondon. Rojo won it fairly. Rojo wanted to | :37:03. | :37:07. | |
have a word. That was the first push. Not true exactly what Rojo did | :37:08. | :37:19. | |
wrong. There was a slap from Rondon. Yellow card for each in the end. | :37:20. | :37:27. | |
Going to have to take a risk or two more to find a way back into the | :37:28. | :37:31. | |
game. Dawson, blocked by Rooney, West Brom corner. | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
Deep from Brunt. Back by McCauley. West Brom appealing for hands, | :37:39. | :37:49. | |
Anthony Taylor not interested. This is what West Brom were appealing | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
for. McCauley hands this back across. Proffered deliberately. Did | :37:53. | :38:02. | |
he use his arm? I don't think so. Manchester United have not looked in | :38:03. | :38:08. | |
any trouble all day. That was a boy touch. That was deliberate from | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
Brunt. -- poor touch. The only way he was going to stop Marcus | :38:14. | :38:23. | |
Rashford. End of a good week for Manchester United, nine points from | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
nine, eight Premier League games unbeaten, thanks once again to | :38:27. | :38:31. | |
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who has 16 goals for the season now. Two today | :38:32. | :38:38. | |
complete a polished and professional way performance. West Brom 0- two | :38:39. | :38:43. | |
Manchester United. Great performance, even better than the | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
last one at Crystal Palace. Very solid from the first minute. And | :38:48. | :38:55. | |
everything under control. We coped well with the difficult things that | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
West Bromwich always bring to the game. I would give them a poor goal | :39:00. | :39:03. | |
at the beginning, that was disappointing. What I said at | :39:04. | :39:08. | |
half-time, make sure we stay in the game and as the game goes, we'll | :39:09. | :39:11. | |
grow into it, I really thought we would. The last thing we want is for | :39:12. | :39:17. | |
them to get that second goal. A very fortuitous goal. Another one for | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
Ibrahimovic, as a younger player what is it like having him on and | :39:21. | :39:24. | |
off the pitch? He's a great character, everyone knows his | :39:25. | :39:26. | |
character, his bubbly in the changing room, helps the young lads, | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
and he's good to play with. He's good to link off as well. I think he | :39:32. | :39:38. | |
is proof that he's a super man in his mentality. Because he is doing | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
fantastic, what he's doing at the age of 305I think is a dream for | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
every one of 25, every striker of 25, to arrive in the Premier League | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
and to impress the way he's doing. I'm feeling good, at the end I was a | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
little bit tired, but I feel fresh, I feel good, I'm confident. When the | :39:57. | :40:03. | |
team is doing good, it's easier, absolutely. But we work hard and we | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
are doing the sacrifice for each other. When you can win on like | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
this, it's beautiful, it's a beautiful day. At the end what | :40:13. | :40:18. | |
counts is three points. His statistics continue to prove he's a | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
wonderful footballer, even at 35, ten goals in his last nine games, | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
classic Centre forward performance. Never had to worry about the numbers | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
when it comes to Ibrahimovic, he's scored everywhere he's gone, because | :40:32. | :40:34. | |
of little things like this, he knows every trick in the book to get a | :40:35. | :40:39. | |
yard of space, pulls him back, get the header, that's Man United's 1-0. | :40:40. | :40:45. | |
I feel he's getting sharper and sharper as the season goes on, and | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
stronger with it. Mourinho's right, at 35, it's phenomenal to see. This | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
is the other side to him. Got an edge. Yellow card. There have been | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
centre halves throwing themselves at centre forward for years, he likes | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
to throw himself around this way. It's a yellow card. They are very | :41:05. | :41:11. | |
similar. This is a yellow card as well. Fully shoulder barged Rashford | :41:12. | :41:18. | |
of the ball, both incidents the referee got right. When you've got a | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
striker like Zlatan Ibrahimovic, whose wonderfully gifted, | :41:25. | :41:26. | |
technically sound, holds the ball up, he likes to play more with his | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
back, hasn't got the legs to get beyond defenders, you need players | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
to compensate from that. Jesse Lingard, in him United have that | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
today. Last season when he first cemented his place in the team, it | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
was one of the strengths I noticed, his willingness to run in behind. At | :41:44. | :41:47. | |
Palace the other night they played Rooney and Mata in wide positions | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
and struggled to make any good runs, penetration wasn't there. What he | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
does is this, he has great pace and willingness to get in there, which | :41:56. | :41:58. | |
is key. Could have had a penalty early in the game. It's all about | :41:59. | :42:02. | |
timing when you make these runs, soon as Valencia gets his head up, | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
spins just that the right time. Nyom's not spin slow, what a cross, | :42:09. | :42:15. | |
the best I've seen all season, unbelievable technique. Keeps | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
finding himself in a really dangerous positions because he wants | :42:19. | :42:21. | |
to get in there. He scored some big goals for United already in his | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
career, another good run sets Rooney up, nearly equalled the record. When | :42:26. | :42:31. | |
he does get the ball two feet, he can dribble, good technique, he's | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
confident, drives at people. He would have started the season if he | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
didn't get injured early. You'll get goals, I wouldn't worry about this. | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
He's in there again, right position, trying to smash it rather than place | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
it. They couldn't cope with him all afternoon, he was... He was fighting | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
for a place in the team, he certainly will give Mourinho a | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
headache. West Brom, despite being on a really good run of form lacked | :43:01. | :43:08. | |
competitiveness today, or was it Manchester United's ability. I think | :43:09. | :43:11. | |
they lack competitiveness, they were very passive through the game. They | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
naturally like to drop off in games, I watched against Chelsea a couple | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
of weeks ago and they frustrated them for long periods. This is 1-0 | :43:20. | :43:23. | |
down. At home you need to make something happen. Look at the | :43:24. | :43:26. | |
numbers they have in the attacking area, they have the ability to put | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
the press on Manchester United. It's like everyone's mentality is, | :43:31. | :43:35. | |
retreat, I'm going to go to my position because that's what I've | :43:36. | :43:38. | |
been told to do, that's what they did most of the game. The problem | :43:39. | :43:41. | |
with that mentality is when you do play against topsides and give them | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
this space, not anybody getting anywhere near a Manchester United | :43:49. | :43:51. | |
player, they can unlock that defence whenever they want, someone makes a | :43:52. | :43:59. | |
quick run, they are written. -- they are in. For lesser sides, it works. | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
It probably spill over into their general play. I'll give them the | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
benefit of the doubt, had a tough week, on a good run. I'm guessing | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
Tony Pulis will look at it, saying, we are tired, put a lot of energy | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
into those games which is why we got the results. The quality wasn't | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
there today at all. Manchester United were brilliant but I expected | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
a lot more from West from. Improving quickly. | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
One place separated Middlesbrough and Swansea ahead of a crucial | :44:27. | :44:28. | |
Commentary on the battle near the bottom comes from Guy Mowbray. | :44:29. | :44:31. | |
COMMENTATOR: Boro's joint top-scorers this season have three | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
goals each. Alvaro Negredo's work for the team has been appreciated. | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
He has scored against Swansea before in his one season stay at Manchester | :44:43. | :44:46. | |
City. He remains Middlesbrough's most likely player to net. Today, | :44:47. | :44:51. | |
the opposite side, see as striker he used to vie with in the Spanish | :44:52. | :44:58. | |
national side. Fernando Llorente has scored one more than Negredo. His | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
abilities are well-known to Aitor Karanka. Former team and roommate at | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
Atletico Bilbao. Down it his knees. Nothing doing. He | :45:09. | :45:22. | |
can't keep it. The fans not happen which with how their team started. | :45:23. | :45:28. | |
Victor Valdes is stunned by Sigurdsson. Swansea are quicker out | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
of the blocks. Sigurdsson with the first attempt on target in the game. | :45:33. | :45:36. | |
For Swansea, it's the first of four key matches in a row over the | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
holiday period. You would think their first priority will be not | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
losing this one. Boro will only be happy with a win. | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
Sigurdsson. Forced off it. Nice foot work from Ramires. Clayton to his | :45:51. | :46:04. | |
left. Clayton pushes on. Lovely foot work to deceive Mawson. What a | :46:05. | :46:06. | |
finish that is by Alvaro Negredo. Middlesbrough's main striker has his | :46:07. | :46:21. | |
first goal of the season. This is fantastic work from Adam Clayton. He | :46:22. | :46:28. | |
deceived Alfie Mawson. Negredo nets for Boro. Middlesbrough 1, Swansea | :46:29. | :46:30. | |
City 0. Amat. Had to hurry, lost the ball. | :46:31. | :46:46. | |
Negredo. De Roon. Rangel. He felt that he had to knock it behind. That | :46:47. | :46:49. | |
ball was Downing bound. Forshaw. There's Ramires. He seems | :46:50. | :47:04. | |
to have been tripped. Free-kick given to Boro, just outside the box. | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
Referee was always looking to see whether an advantage could develop. | :47:10. | :47:18. | |
Up steps Ramirez. Oh, not far away at all. It has the pace to ensure | :47:19. | :47:30. | |
that had it been lower, Fabianski wasn't getting near it. Gibson. | :47:31. | :47:39. | |
Straight to Ramirez. Middlesbrough's to throw back in. They do so | :47:40. | :47:49. | |
quickly. Forshaw. He's done. The referee points to the spot. | :47:50. | :47:55. | |
Middlesbrough penalty. It all came about because of the quickly taken | :47:56. | :48:02. | |
throw. In it came to Adam Forshaw. Amat lifted his leg and left it | :48:03. | :48:05. | |
hanging. He tried to get it away, but he didn't have the time. Quite a | :48:06. | :48:12. | |
lazy challenge. Negredo has very confidently put himself up for this. | :48:13. | :48:20. | |
Here comes Alvaro Negredo. He doubles his and Middlesbrough's | :48:21. | :48:26. | |
total for the afternoon. It's happening to Swansea, again. Two | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
goals in just over 10 minutes scored against them. Very, very confidently | :48:31. | :48:37. | |
and cooly done. That's Swansea done for already. Alvaro Negredo has a | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
double, Middlesbrough 2, Swansea City 0. Bob Bradley, before today, | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
they conceded 15 goals in five away games. | :48:49. | :49:00. | |
Made the near-post run. Towards Fulton. He's the player guilty of | :49:01. | :49:11. | |
fouling him rather than the way round. They both tumbled. Help | :49:12. | :49:17. | |
blocks him first and hugs him. Who fouled who there? The decision goes | :49:18. | :49:29. | |
against Fulton, but it was a block by Barrow in the first place. | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
Downing will go for goal. On target all right, but straight down the | :49:36. | :49:44. | |
barrel for Fabianski. -- Barragan. Is Gibson, through to De Roon. | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
Lovely lay off for Negredo. Here's Ramirez. Great ball in. It's | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
finished by Marten de Roon. You would think Swansea are finished | :49:54. | :49:58. | |
now, too. That's a lovely Middlesbrough goal. A sweeping move. | :49:59. | :50:05. | |
And, Middlesbrough are sweeping to victory in this hugely important | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
game near the bottom of the Premier League. No question of de Roon being | :50:10. | :50:16. | |
onside. It's an absolute ripper of a ball from Ramirez. It just needed | :50:17. | :50:22. | |
stroking hope op. Middlesbrough 3, Swansea City 0. They are the people | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
I feel sorry for today, the Swansea fans who have made this long trek up | :50:27. | :50:35. | |
to Teesside. A19, A1, M5, M4, that's the way home. M standing for, | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
"misery" most of the way. He gives him the slip. Montero gives | :50:40. | :50:58. | |
on. There's Fer. This one was goal-bound from Leroy Fer. | :50:59. | :51:05. | |
In from Sigurdsson. Alves was caught behind the crowd there. Forshaw. How | :51:06. | :51:20. | |
far can he go? Friend is up there as well. His team-mate. Here's George | :51:21. | :51:26. | |
Friend. He was grinding through the gears, was Friend here. Have a look. | :51:27. | :51:37. | |
Have a go. Have a jog back. Rangel. Up to Llorente. Neat little lay off | :51:38. | :51:40. | |
to Sigurdsson. It will now come to month material owe. | :51:41. | :51:58. | |
-- Montero cross. It gets closer towards his clean sheet. It's been | :51:59. | :52:08. | |
our biggest victory, but I think this I think it was... Everybody in | :52:09. | :52:11. | |
this group is really, really confident. Today these three goals, | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
especially three points and clean sheet has been massive for us. You | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
know that you have to win, because you have to stay above the bottom | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
three, yeah, you say to each other and after there's relief that you | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
won. The second goal comes in in a strange way achl throw-in where I | :52:32. | :52:34. | |
think our players are leaning one way. It goes in quickly we Given up | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
the PK, the penalty. I feel as if we put ourselves in the hole over and | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
over. That takes a lot out of a team. The ability to come back in | :52:45. | :52:50. | |
the Premier League week after week is obviously nearly impossible. It's | :52:51. | :52:55. | |
been more a case of road matches and so now we have two very big home | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
games coming up and we have to turn all our our attention towards those | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
two matches. Let us focus firstly, Jermaine, on Middlesbrough. Negredo, | :53:05. | :53:08. | |
back in the goals, four in the last four following 11 games without a | :53:09. | :53:10. | |
goal. That is vital for Middlesbrough, isn't it? It's vital | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
for them. I think Middlesbrough will be OK. There are teams down there | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
that would kill for an out and out goalscorer which Alvaro Negredo | :53:21. | :53:23. | |
actually is. This is a brilliantly taken goal. Going away from goal, | :53:24. | :53:27. | |
wraps his left foot around it into that bottom corner. As you say, | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
Gary, four in four. He's now starting to find that it type of | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
form that Middlesbrough desperately need him to be in. When he's on he | :53:35. | :53:40. | |
is on. One of those. Look at this moment here with him. He wasn't | :53:41. | :53:46. | |
doing this a few weeks ago. We love this every now and again - I can't | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
even do one! That shows you the type of confidence he is playing with. At | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
this point, I thought Middlesbrough were cruising. He is involved in the | :53:56. | :54:04. | |
third goal as well. Ramirez brilliant for Middlesbrough all | :54:05. | :54:07. | |
season. Marten de Roon great ball in. Important they have Negredo | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
banging in the goals on a regular basis now. I suppose at present, | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
Danny, if you were given a chance to pick a fixture you would take, | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
unfairly or cruelly, which ever way you would take it Swansea at home A | :54:22. | :54:28. | |
bit harsh, but probably fair. Just a question. Yeah. That is is harsh, | :54:29. | :54:36. | |
Danny? Yeah. The problem with Swansea, for me, they lack tenacity, | :54:37. | :54:42. | |
athleticism. They are quite a nice team, they didn't get near | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
Middlesbrough today. Even when they were losing 2-1 no-one got ruffled | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
or put tackles in. It was a weak performance. Limp, if you like. They | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
need to change something whether it's bring in six new players in | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
January, if they can. Or will it be the manager Maybe the manager. They | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
are not known for their patience. The squad at the moment I don't | :55:03. | :55:04. | |
think will stay up. Match of the Day 2 is on Monday | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
night this week to take in the Merseyside derby, | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
as well as all of Sunday's action. Match of the Day 2 Extra | :55:14. | :55:37. | |
will discuss all the weekend's 5Live has commentary | :55:38. | :55:39. | |
on Manchester City against Arsenal I hope you can join us | :55:40. | :55:47. | |
for Sports Personality of the Year, Mark Chapman follows Match | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
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or you can catch up throughout COMMENTATOR: The kick will be taken | :55:57. | :56:15. | |
and left to Danny Murphy. And he scores for Liverpool! Danny Murphy's | :56:16. | :56:25. | |
done a David Beckham here. # We'd better get some work done... | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
# Danny Murphy and Bob the Builder | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
together. There must be a tool joke there. I have to work it out. | :56:34. | :56:35. | |
West Ham had taken four points from their last two matches to ease | :56:36. | :56:39. | |
the pressure slightly on Slaven Bilic. | :56:40. | :56:40. | |
Could they continue that improvement against a struggling Hull City? | :56:41. | :56:42. | |
Simon Brotherton is your commentator. | :56:43. | :56:44. | |
COMMENTATOR: Four points from two games in the past week has lifted | :56:45. | :56:53. | |
West Ham's spirits as well as their league position. Hull's tally of six | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
points from the last 14 matches is the same they earnt in the opening | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
two fixtures of the season leaving them close to the bottom. West Ham | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
are unchanged, Andy Carroll starts for the second time in four days and | :57:07. | :57:10. | |
for the third time all season in the Premier League. Hull are back in | :57:11. | :57:13. | |
London again after their midweek defeat at Tottenham. One change this | :57:14. | :57:22. | |
afternoon. Mbokani returns preferred to Diomande upfront. Plenty on that | :57:23. | :57:27. | |
ball forward from Noble. Hull look to break. Mbokani got there ahead of | :57:28. | :57:38. | |
Kouyate. Out for a goal kick. Hull threatening here. James cordon an | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
interested spectator here for this one today. | :57:45. | :57:52. | |
That backpass is too short. M bow Khanningy is in. Oh, he's missed. | :57:53. | :57:59. | |
West Ham United get away with one. Mbokani laying the bat back. Oh, | :58:00. | :58:02. | |
dear me, Hull City are unlikely to get another gift like that this | :58:03. | :58:07. | |
afternoon. Oh, it was on a plate. Mbokani just trying to squeeze he | :58:08. | :58:11. | |
squeeze it inside the post. Cresswell, a dreadful pass. Well, | :58:12. | :58:17. | |
less than a ball's width away from taking the lead. What aens Cha. Mike | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
Phelan saying ahead of this match how his team need to take their | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
chances more than they have been. He's still waiting. -- what a | :58:25. | :58:30. | |
chance. They are on the front foot once again here. I playing | :58:31. | :58:36. | |
positively. Huddlestone can hit them, given half a chance. It rather | :58:37. | :58:44. | |
fizzles out. The referee said there was there a deflection there. It's | :58:45. | :58:51. | |
been given. It's a Hull City corner. Snodgrass, their top scorer, he is | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
the man who will take it. Saved by Randolph. It had to be as | :58:57. | :59:03. | |
Here it is again as the ball comes over, Maguire came in from the back | :59:04. | :59:11. | |
and got just in front of him. Robertson back in there once more. | :59:12. | :59:15. | |
Mbokani goes for it at the edge of the penalty area and shoots. What a | :59:16. | :59:19. | |
goal it would have been had he managed to keep that down. Landini. | :59:20. | :59:35. | |
Hull playing well here. Now pushing forward. Half far-away, into the | :59:36. | :59:44. | |
opening minute of the last 45, the ball not quite falling Maguire. West | :59:45. | :59:53. | |
Ham United under real pressure. West Ham United will be relieved if they | :59:54. | :00:01. | |
can go in goalless at half-time, it was who could easily have slight the | :00:02. | :00:03. | |
ball into the back of his own net. Hull should be sensing an | :00:04. | :00:13. | |
opportunity in this match this afternoon. Snodgrass. Turn away from | :00:14. | :00:21. | |
Kouyate. It's headed against his own post, that, by Mark Noble! Goodness | :00:22. | :00:28. | |
me. Hull hitting the post for the second time this afternoon. This | :00:29. | :00:38. | |
time off West Ham's captain. But on the bike Mbokani towards Snodgrass. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Robertson comes to the edge of the penalty area. He's hit the post | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
again. Unbelievable. This was superb play by Robertson. A thunderous | :00:54. | :01:10. | |
shot. This is the angle. I yet finding Ogbonna. It'll be a corner. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
Ogbonna's only ever scored one goal for West Ham. Still nothing in it. | :01:15. | :01:24. | |
Hit off the line. That's the closest West Ham have come, now it's with | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
Kouyate. Antonio. Great save by Marshall. Twice in quick succession. | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
West Ham close. Now Hull city with Mbokani trying to come away, the | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
Kearney slightly over runs it. A real chance here. Great challenge by | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
Kouyate, racing into the box on Sam Clucas. Brilliant depending. Here's | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
the double chance for West Ham, the header from Andre Ayew. So close. A | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
great stop on the line by Robertson. The second effort here from Antonio, | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
saved by David Marshall. Other end of the pitch, here comes the corner. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Kouyate back on his feet. End to end 20 minutes into the second half. Off | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
the line at the other end. It's Hernandez who gets there. Great | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
blocked on the line. Having gone close at one end, West Ham suddenly | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
on the back foot here. This is a tremendous run here, two | :02:26. | :02:38. | |
thirds the length of the pitch from Michail Antonio. Before it was | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
upended. Yellow card for Michael Dawson. An all action run to get the | :02:45. | :02:57. | |
crowd on their feet. In it goes. Marshall beaten to the ball. | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
Huddlestone's there. Still in the air. Well shielded. Rodriguez... | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
Penalty for the challenge on Antonio. Huddlestone went up for it, | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
they waited for the ball to drop and Antonio goes down. Hull will feel | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
that's a soft penalty. And clearly do. Can Mark Noble take this chance | :03:23. | :03:30. | |
for West Ham with 15 to go? Yes, he can. West Ham 1-0 Hull city. What a | :03:31. | :03:42. | |
good penalty. West Ham's reliable captain keeping cool and slotting it | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
home. Away comes Dimitri Payet, Andre Ayew to his right, Hernandez | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
to his left. I yet might fancy this himself, still going, down he goes | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
under pressure and gets a free kick. The challenge by Henriksen, who is | :04:00. | :04:04. | |
booked. I yet got a free kick where he likes it. Just over five minutes | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
remaining at the London stadium and Dimitri Payet with this opportunity | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
for West Ham. Round the wall, a save from Marshall, good free kick, | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
stopped by the goalkeeper. Aaron Cresswell, left the door ajar. | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
Snodgrass into the penalty area. Maguire with the shot, saved by | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
Randolph. There were three players hoping for the ball there. But | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Creswell will be relieved nothing came of this after that little slip. | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
Reflecting on chances gone by in the first half. Am I pleased with the | :04:44. | :04:50. | |
performance? No I'm not. Am I pleased with the reaction in the | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
second half? Especially the last half-hour? I am. We scored the goal. | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
Should have finished the game, to score another one after we scored | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
the first, but we didn't. Massive three points for us, back-to-back | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
win on the stadium, two 1-0 results, very good for us considering the | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
situation we were in. Burnley at home and Hull at home have been hard | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
tests honest hard-working teams, we've kept two clean sheets and got | :05:23. | :05:28. | |
two victories, which is massive. We gave an opportunity for a referee to | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
make a decision and he took it, I'm not going to moan and groan, it's a | :05:33. | :05:38. | |
difficult role they play. I'm sure, deep down, they'll look at that | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
again. As we'll be all, it'll be replayed and replayed and discussed | :05:43. | :05:49. | |
and discussed. If you don't put yourself in a position of authority | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
by scoring your own goals first... It became a matchwinner for West | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
Ham. Probably had to resist the urge. It was the flimsiest of | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
penalties, let's look at it, Danny. I agree completely. We do get the | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
advantage of looking back on it again and again, of course. He goes | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
over too easily. REFEREE: Position, actually. We'll see as we go closer, | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
there is a slight touch of Huddlestone's hand on the side of | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
Antonio. He shakes his head when he gives it, | :06:21. | :06:31. | |
he goes, no, not upheld to, I changed my mind... He was definitely | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
not convinced, but gave it in the end. It was a good pen. From a | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
reliable penalty taker. Strange game, Hull haven't scored in two | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
months away from home, had bags of chances and lots of misfortune. I | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
think Hull will go down. The reason is based on this alone. They haven't | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
got an out and out goal-scorer in their side, missed far too many | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
opportunities. Haven't got that killer instinct. They got some nice | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
football is in their rags but when it comes to moments like this you | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
can't rely on anybody in their team, you haven't got anybody to stick the | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
ball in the back of the net when it matters. This time, Clucas, yes, | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Kouyate makes a great challenge last minute to get them back into that. | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
It was, I'll be honest, a lot of unfortunate incidents for them | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
today. Second time he hit the post. Robertson was brilliant today, | :07:27. | :07:28. | |
fantastic strike. Huddlestone played well for them as well. Look at back | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
of the line, Maguire, it wouldn't go in the back of the net for them. At | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
all. Interesting, West Ham's official Twitter account asked for | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
the fans to vote for the man of the match and they gave it to the post, | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
it kind of says a lot. Nevertheless, a vital win for West Ham? It was a | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
vital win. They are struggling, is it lack of confidence? They have to | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
dig seriously deep to get any kind of performance, any win under their | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
belt. They didn't play well again today, they seem to have no ideas, | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
almost, how to play. Just hopeless balls, these couple of balls from | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Antonio not digging him out in particular, it was a West Ham issue, | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
not Antonio. I yet running forward with the ball, looking for runners, | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
they have no one is all of a sudden. They want to come towards the ball, | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
I get the same, make runs behind, I'll find you. Everybody wants to | :08:26. | :08:30. | |
choose the easy option in the West Ham shirt. Lovely ball from Mark | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
Noble. Who's running forward? No one. Loads of space in the | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
right-hand side for somebody to be steaming into. No, we'll pass it | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
backwards, nice and easy for Hull, they've dealt with it all day poor | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
performance, they were lucky to get the win. | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
21 of the 24 sides who've been bottom of the Premier League | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
at Christmas have gone on to be relegated. | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
Sunderland occupied that unenviable spot as they welcomed Watford | :08:56. | :08:57. | |
Victor in each of the returns after injury for a match David Moyes | :08:58. | :09:10. | |
describes as a must win match for the Black Cats. One of only three | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
goal-scorers in the Premier League this season for Sunderland. Donald | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Love makes his first start since August. Troy Deeney has been stuck | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
on 99 goals for what would since the beginning of October. Nine | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
appearances without a goal for the Hornets captain. Younes Kaboul began | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
the season at Sunderland before an August move to Vicarage Road. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
Watford come here having lost their last three away matches. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Harlow on the chase. Gets there. Deeney making a run into the penalty | :09:39. | :09:53. | |
area. Early corner. Etienne Capoue to take this conifer Watford. Rabat | :09:54. | :10:01. | |
with the volley. Tipped over by Pickford. What an acrobat, met that | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
terrifically. You can see him on the edge of the penalty area, nobody in | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
a Sunderland shirt anywhere near him. Only one point from the last | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
four away from home. Having lost the last three at Liverpool, West | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
Bromwich Albion and Manchester city midweek. Zuniga trying to find a | :10:22. | :10:31. | |
gala, cut out by Ndong. -- trying to find a Carlow. | :10:32. | :10:43. | |
Watford throw. Trying to get away from Denayer. Great kick to Watford. | :10:44. | :11:08. | |
Given away by Jason Denayer. Labour is behind it. Only just wide. | :11:09. | :11:18. | |
Pickford came for that and came nowhere near it. Britos with the | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
opportunity for Watford, close to scoring, look at the way he rises, | :11:24. | :11:27. | |
takes a touch of Younes Kaboul on the way through. Given away, | :11:28. | :11:35. | |
straight to Denayer, urged forward by David Moyes. And Paul Creswell in | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
the Sunderland technical area. Januzaj. Flag stays down. It needed | :11:40. | :11:50. | |
Gomez to make the save as van Aanholt timed his run perfectly. | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
Nice one touch football from Sunderland and Gomez to the rescue | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
to keep it 0-0. Lovely run here. Though was the offside? Looked like | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
it. Van Aanholt with the opportunity. Gomes making sure it | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
remains level 0-0 at half-time. Away by Djilobodji. Lovely play to | :12:09. | :12:23. | |
get away from Younes Kaboul. Jermain Defoe with the ball across. Turned | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
in off the post, Sunderland in front, Patrick van Aanholt with the | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
goal. Sunderland with the breakthrough. Brilliant play there. | :12:35. | :12:46. | |
Defoe. Only one man in support. That man was van Aanholt and he does | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
superbly here to turn away from the challenge. And then put the ball in | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
off the upright. Van Aanholt gets his third goal of the season and, | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
crucially, Sunderland's first of the afternoon. Sunderland 1-0 Watford. | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
David Moyes said in the build-up to this match, had he known the full | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
facts about Sunderland's financial situation and the fact the chairman | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Ellis Short is looking to sell aid, he may have thought a little harder | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
about taking the job here. -- looking to sell it. Januzaj, the | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
only option for the jack. Here he is. -- only option for the throw. | :13:25. | :13:38. | |
Any to be! -- Victor any to be. Many in the Stadium of Light would have | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
expected Sunderland's second goal. Just the wrong side of the post, | :13:44. | :13:52. | |
Anichebe. Wayward clearance, picked up by an Rabat, shrugs off van | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
Aanholt. In towards Deeney. The search for goal number 100 in | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
Watford Colours goes on for Troy Deeney. The aggressive run forward | :14:02. | :14:10. | |
from Amrabat, Deeney holding back off target. Jordan Pickford may well | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
have had it covered anyway. Time running out for Watford. Deeney with | :14:16. | :14:21. | |
a header on. Ighalo. Success. Who gets away from the challenge. | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
Success is still powering his way on. It's put behind for a corner. | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
Djilobodji. A cross to get his considerable frame in the way. | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
Zuniga drives it across, Pickford... Pickford with the save, right behind | :14:42. | :14:43. | |
it from the former Newcastle man. It might drop here for Ighalo. | :14:44. | :14:52. | |
Pickford with the save. He just gets there, again. Jordan Pickford with | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
two saves in quick succession to keep Sunderland in front. First from | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
Janmaat and then this second one. Sunderland 1, Watford 0. I think it | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
was on the verge of a must win for us today. I think to make sure that | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
we didn't get detached and, especially over the Christmas | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
period, we have tough games. The players did great, tuck at it. Ugly | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
at times. Nevertheless, the three points were the big thing we What | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
did the needed. Manager say to you at half-time? He just said - keep on | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
doing what you are doing. You are creating loads of chances on the | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
left side. We combined very well. Keep doing what you are doing, the | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
chance will come. The chance game. I scored the goal. Massive. The | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
manager said, no point kidding you, it's a must-win game. Simple as | :15:47. | :15:49. | |
that. Loads of games in a short space of time. It was important we | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
recover, which we did. Credit to the medical team to get everything | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
right. When you do that, you get results. We are delighted today. | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
Walter, did Watford do enough to get even a point? | :16:02. | :16:09. | |
TRANSLATION: I'm very angry. We did everything ourselves positive and | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
negative. Of course we missed many chances in the first half. Then we | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
also gave them their goal very easy. I'm very angry. Good performances in | :16:18. | :16:23. | |
the last month. I didn't think today was a good performance. It was a | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
winning performs and a winning team it covers up a multitude of sints | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
when getting -- sins when getting your minds. He was a superstar of | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
the future at Manchester United, Januzaj. It didn't happen for him. | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
Better today He played behind Defoe. Technically superb. As we know. | :16:47. | :16:49. | |
Drifts in and out of games. In this central role he was involved more. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
Positive. Likes to go forward. In a game where Watford could have got | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
something out of, he was the, for Sunderland, he was the difference in | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
their attacking play. He opened them up time and time again. His best | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
game. Had a big hand in the goal there. You see, what he's got is the | :17:10. | :17:16. | |
turn, to go - the desire to go forward, I should say. The | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
willingness to take the ball under pressure. He was really good. He | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
played really well. David Milibands said it was a must-win game. You can | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
see what he means to keep the momentum going. They have improved? | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
Massive game. Won three of the last four at home. Their home form for | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
them is going to be imperative to them having any type of chance of | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
staying up in this league Watford, generally, kind of going along quite | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
nicely really. Doing well. Hot and cold. Decent performance. A tad | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
unlucky. Chelsea's victory at Crystal Palace | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
means they extend their lead Arsenal and Manchester City | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
will have the chance to close the gap when they play each | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
other on Sunday. Swansea drop to 19th | :18:06. | :18:07. | |
after another heavy away defeat. Sunderland's win over Watford | :18:08. | :18:09. | |
means they climb off The Sunday papers... The Times leads | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
on Chelsea's club record-equalling 11 match winning streak to lead the | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
Premier League at Christmas. Manchester City will bid ?25 million | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
for Arsenal's Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain in January. | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
According to the Sun. The Mail on Sunday reports that Zlatan | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Ibrahimovic will reject a ?120 million offer to join the Chinese | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
Super League. So Chelsea sit on the top | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
of the tree at Christmas - Got it out of a Christmas cracker - | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
sorry! | :18:44. | :18:47. |