After Saturday’s draw at Newcastle, the fifth occasion this season Chelsea have dropped points to leave them 15th and already trailing leader’s Manchester United by eight points, manager Jose Mourinho questioned the “desire and commitment” of his players ahead of the midweek Champions League game with Porto. Mourinho had seen enough from his team’s display 

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On Wednesday it was their defence being called into question, Barcelona’s 4-1 defeat at Celta Vigo was the third time in nine matches this season they have conceded four goals and they left Balaidos having shipped 15 goals already this campaign. To put that into context Luis Enrique’s team let in just 38 goals in 

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The incident isn’t particularly memorable, it certainly doesn’t linger in the memory as long as Michael Essien’s piledriver that drew Chelsea level in the same game, but last week’s meeting of Chelsea vs Arsenal may have cast minds back to December 2006 when the two sides met at Stamford Bridge and Didier Drogba and Jens 

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Three out of our four Champions league teams, Arsenal, Manchester United and Manchester City all lost their opening fixture in the Champions League this week to what should be substantially weaker opposition. What can this be attributed to? Most likely some nerves, maybe an underestimation of the quality of the opposition or perhaps it was 

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In the run up to Manchester United’s game at Southampton on Sunday, manager Louis Van Gaal claimed that he wasn’t worried about Wayne Rooney’s lack of goals. Rooney, who as the Dutch coach acknowledged is on course to break the club goal-scoring record, hadn’t scored for 10 league games and as he returned from injury 

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There may have been some hyperbole behind Juan Mata’s dedication of Manchester United’s 2-3 win at Southampton to Luke Shaw on Sunday afternoon, but the influence of the left-back was dearly felt even if he was at home watching it on television. United’s game with Southampton was the first of many Shaw will have to 

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