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Gomez hat-trick sends Bayern top in Germany

Juan Mata breaks the mechanics of Chelsea's pounding rhythms | Paul Hayward

The Spaniard reminded Stamford Bridge what it has been missing since Jos?? Mourinho's side turned pragmaticMore worrying than Chelsea's huge trading losses has been their creativity deficit: a shortfall Andr?? Villas-Boas was hired to correct. Juan Mata ??? Stamford Bridge's answer to David Silva...

Chelsea 3-1 Norwich City | Premier League match report

Another easy win for Chelsea against the sort of opposition they should be taking in their stride at Stamford Bridge if their seasonal challenge in the Premier League is to be maintained. Having struggled to find blend and fluency against West Bromwich Albion, they looked like dropping points...

Wigan Athletic 2-0 QPR | Premier League match report

The statistics for Franco Di Santo provide worrying reading for any striker, let alone one for whom there were such great expectations when he joined Chelsea in 2008. When the Argentinian scored for Wigan Athletic against Sunderland in the 4-2 defeat at the Stadium of Light in April, he had only...

Fabio Capello captivated by Sir Alex Ferguson's dazzling class of '11 | Paul Hayward

The England manager has been captivated by the emergence of Phil Jones, Danny Welbeck and Tom Cleverley at Man UtdFrom Theo Walcott's memoirs we learn that Fabio Capello is not famous for buttering up youngsters. But of Phil Jones, 19, the England coach says contentedly: "So young, so good. He's...

Ferguson takes pot shot at Wenger's barren run at Arsenal

??? 'I wouldn't have allowed six-year gap to happen at Man Utd'??? Five years since Arsenal last won at Old TraffordSir Alex Ferguson says he would never have allowed Manchester United to go six years without winning a trophy. After expressing his support for his Arsenal counterpart Ars??ne Wenger,...

Derby 1-2 Burnley | Championship match report

Derby's perfect start to the season is over and, just as few really understood it in the first place, no one will be entirely surprised.A fifth successive win would have made it the Rams' best opening to a season since 1905-6, but such an outcome looked unlikely from the start as they took the best...

Crystal Palace 1-1 Blackpool | Championship match report

Comedy was conspicuously absent from Ian Holloway's post-match press conference. That characteristic sense of humour is being sapped from the Blackpool manager since relegation and replaced by an air of indignation; even his relations with the chairman, Karl Oyston, have started to sour.Holloway...