{"id":279901,"date":"2016-12-26T17:29:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279901"},"modified":"2016-12-26T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T17:29:28","slug":"pl-roundup-chelsea-earn-12th-straight-win-man-utd-comfortable-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279901","title":{"rendered":"PL roundup: Chelsea earn 12th straight win, Man Utd comfortable at home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watford and Crystal Palace shared the points in the early kick-off and here\u2019s what happened in the 3pm <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">games<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Arsenal 1-0 West Bromwich Albion<\/strong><br \/>\nWest Brom looked on <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">course<\/span><\/span> to earn a point, but then Olivier Giroud, making his first start of the season, headed in the winner from a Mesut Ozil cross five minutes from the end.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Giroud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64677\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Giroud.jpg\" alt=\"giroud\" width=\"480\" height=\"302\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Burnley 1-0 Middlesbrough\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nAndre Gray broke the deadlock in the final 10 minutes at Turf Moor and his second Premier League goal of the season was enough to earn Burnley all three points.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Burnley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64673\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Burnley.jpg\" alt=\"burnley\" width=\"480\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chelsea 3-0 Bournemouth\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nPedro\u2019s first half beauty opened the scoring at Stamford Bridge where Chelsea were without Diego Costa and N\u2019Golo Kante.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hazard-pen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64678\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Hazard-pen.jpg\" alt=\"hazard-pen\" width=\"480\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eden Hazard scored his 50th Premier League goal when his penalty beat Artur Boruc\u00a0and Pedro got his second late in the game to secure a twelfth successive win.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teads-inread\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hazard-cele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64687\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/hazard-cele.jpg\" alt=\"hazard-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Leicester City 0-2 Everton<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Everton-Mirallas-cele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64676\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Everton-Mirallas-cele.jpg\" alt=\"everton-mirallas-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"410\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA long ball from goalkeeper Joel Robles saw Kevin Mirallas <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">score<\/span><\/span> Everton\u2019s first goal when his deflected shot beat\u00a0Kasper Schmeichel, while Romelu Lukaku made it 2-0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lukaku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64679\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Lukaku.jpg\" alt=\"lukaku\" width=\"1981\" height=\"1229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Manchester United 3-1 Sunderland\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ManU-Blind-cele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64680\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ManU-Blind-cele.jpg\" alt=\"manu-blind-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\nDaley Blind put Man United ahead <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">10<\/span><\/span> minutes before the end of the first half. Sunderland, managed by former Old Trafford boss David Moyes, were playing very well until that point, but in the second half Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who set up Blind, made it 2-0 with\u00a0his 50th calendar year goal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zlatan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64686\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Zlatan.jpg\" alt=\"zlatan\" width=\"480\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Henrikh Mkhitaryan added a superb third, though Sunderland scored a consolation through Fabio Borini.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ManU-Mk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64681\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/ManU-Mk.jpg\" alt=\"manu-mk\" width=\"480\" height=\"251\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Swansea City 1-4 West Ham United<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WestHamAyew-goal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64685\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WestHamAyew-goal.jpg\" alt=\"westhamayew-goal\" width=\"574\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAndre Ayew returned to score against his former club when Swansea goalie Lukasz Fabianski spilled Andy Carroll\u2019s header across the six-yard box, allowing the forward a\u00a0tap in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WestHamAyew-cele.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64684\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/WestHamAyew-cele.jpg\" alt=\"westhamayew-cele\" width=\"574\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Winston Reid later headed in a Dimitri Payet corner and Michail Antonio added the third.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/West-Ham-Antonio.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64682\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/West-Ham-Antonio.jpg\" alt=\"west-ham-antonio\" width=\"574\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fernando Llorente pulled one back for the hosts with a minute to go, but then Carroll restored the three-goal deficit moments later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Carr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64674\" src=\"http:\/\/sport.citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Carr.jpg\" alt=\"carr\" width=\"480\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: TalkSport<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watford and Crystal Palace shared the points in the early kick-off and here\u2019s what happened in the 3pm games. Arsenal 1-0 West Bromwich Albion West Brom looked on course to earn a point, but then Olivier Giroud, making his first start of the season, headed in the winner from a Mesut Ozil cross five minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":279902,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}