Chelsea stay top after win over Spurs

Not only did that game see Leicester clinch the title, but there were numerous clashes between players during the 90 minutes.

Victor Moses (L) tries to hold off Mousa Dembele at Stamford Bridge in London on November 26, 2016.

Chelsea meanwhile recovered to win, showing the type of steel and determination that will delight their manager Antonio Conte. The Italian has been as good as his word and he has presided over a remarkable transformation.

His charges continued to dominate and looked set to go in at half-time a goal up, but, like a bolt out of the blue, Chelsea were level.

Costa attempted to repeat the trick moments later, this time from the right.

“If you want to analyse only the result, it’s 2-1 for Chelsea, congratulations”.

Their loss at Stamford Bridge, where they have gone 30 games without victory, left them seven points below Chelsea in fifth place in the table.

Crooks made the comments following Tottenham’s failure to win against Chelsea in the London derby at the weekend.

Diego Costa created the goal, making great ground down the left before his cut-back allowed the unmarked Moses to strike, with Jan Vertonghen unable to prevent the Nigeria international’s low effort from crossing the line.

Now Pochettino must pick up his disappointed players.

There was always a strong hatred between Chelsea and Tottenham but that rivalry intensified last season. These games are hard. They started better than us, with great intensity and with a lot of pressure when we had the ball.

Palace led 1-0, fell 3-1 down, fought back to go 4-3 up, but eventually succumbed courtesy of a remarkable brace of injury-time goals from Spanish striker Fernando Llorente. Now it’s important to continue the work.

“It is too early [to talk about the title]”, he told BT Sport. “It’s an element of cat and mouse seeing if they were going to keep doing it for the whole game, which is very tough to do”.

Victor Moses celebrated his impressive display and Chelsea’s Premier League victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday with Nigerian music star Davido, Completesportsnigeria.com reports.

“I was very pleased with the goal”, said Moses, who spent the previous three seasons on loan at Liverpool, Stoke City and West Ham United before Antonio Conte converted him into a wing back.

“If we were the same team (as) against Arsenal, Liverpool, today we lose the game. “(Against) a team that is in very good form, I think we competed very well in the first half.

Chelsea then bagged a goal out of nowhere as Pedro collected Nemanja Matic’s turn, then swivelled to take a shot which sailed into the far corner of the net, leaving Hugo Lloris grasping at thin air.

“I think we played well”, he said. Tottenham are at home against Swansea on the same day.