The big news: Chelsea seem unstoppable

Chelsea opened up a six-point gap at the top of the table after beating Sunderland 1-0 at the Stadium of Light on Wednesday. Cesc Fabregas scored the only goal of the game with a sweetly taken strike five minutes to the first half. The win also meant that Antonio Conte’s side have won 10 in a row.

It was an important win for Chelsea after Arsenal slipped up against Everton on Tuesday and it means Antonio Conte’s side will be top of the table at Christmas. “When you have the possibility to kill the game you must kill the game,” said Conte after the game. “We had this possibility but we didn’t and at the end Courtois made a good save. I hope in the future we can improve.”

Other top stories:

  1. Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored his ninth goal of the season as Manchester United beat Crystal Palace 2-1 at Selhurst Park. It was United who took the lead through Paul Pogba with James McArthur scoring the equaliser for Palace deep into second half. 
  2. Liverpool were back to their clinical best against Middlesbrough and registered an emphatic 3-0 win. Buoyed by an Adam Lallana brace and Divock Origi’s fifth goal in as many games, the Reds were in cruise control and are now second in the table, ahead of Arsenal on the virtue of having scored more goals.
  3. Manchester City midfielder Ilkay Gundogan is set to be out for “several months” with knee ligament damage, manager Pep Guardiola has confirmed after City’s 2-0 win over Watford. Gundogan, who joined City from Borussia Dortmund for £20m in June, limped off in tears during the clash. “I’m so sad as it looks like we’ll be without him for a long time,” said Guardiola.       
  4. Kerala Blasters entered the final of the Indian Super League after beating Delhi Dynamos through penalties in a tense semi-final encounter at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Delhi on Wednesday. They now face Atletico de Kolkata in the final.