{"id":293831,"date":"2017-02-12T16:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=293831"},"modified":"2017-02-12T16:00:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-12T16:00:42","slug":"burnley-1-1-chelsea-blues-go-10-points-clear-despite-draw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=293831","title":{"rendered":"Burnley 1-1 Chelsea: Blues go 10 points clear despite draw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burnley came from behind to <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">claim<\/span><\/span> a point against Chelsea who <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">move<\/span><\/span> 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League.<\/p>\n<p>Following Spurs\u2019 2-0 loss to Liverpool on Saturday night, the Blues were looking to move 12 points clear and that lead could now be cut to eight by Man City when they play Bournemouth on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>It would always be tough at Turf Moor where Burnley have been so impressive this season and so it proved, though neither team will moan too much about the draw.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea struck first through Pedro after just seven minutes following a surging run from Victor Moses,\u00a0but Robbie Brady\u2019s free-kick on 24 minutes gave them a stylish equaliser.<\/p>\n<p>Brady&#8217;s leveller came against the run of play, but it&#8217;s amazing what a goal will do for confidence. There was a clear spring in the step\u00a0of Burnley\u2019s players afterwards, ensuring the first half remained hugely <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">entertaining<\/span><\/span> and Matt Lowton should have made it 2-1, but he was denied by Thibaut Courtois.<\/p>\n<p>The visitors were frustrated in the second-half, although it was\u00a0Chelsea asking all the questions as <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default vm-hook-inview\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">the game<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>edged towards full-time.\u00a0However, Burnley stood firm and were\u00a0happy to settle for a point.<\/p>\n<p>The Blues were unable to land\u00a0that killer blow \u2013 they didn\u2019t have\u00a0a single shot on target in the second 45 minutes \u2013 though still look nailed on to win the league.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley fans will just wonder why they can\u2019t replicate this form away from home.\u00a0The Clarets are now unbeaten in six top-flight games for the first time since September 1975.<br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: TalkSPort<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burnley came from behind to claim a point against Chelsea who move 10 points clear at the top of the Premier League. Following Spurs\u2019 2-0 loss to Liverpool on Saturday night, the Blues were looking to move 12 points clear and that lead could now be cut to eight by Man City when they play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":293832,"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-293831","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\/293831","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=293831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293831\/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=293831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}