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Sunderland boss Dick Advocaat is determined to bring in three players in the remaining week of the transfer window to avoid another relegation dogfight.

With Montero putting in decent balls into the box, Ayew is fully expected to score and I am sure he would want to continue his goalscoring form against Newcastle.

Newcastle United have yet to win in the Premier League this season.

We started well, but after 10-15 minutes, they were quicker than us.

Steve McClaren reacted by taking off Papiss Cisse with Newcastle seemingly content to limit the damage. Newcastle, who play Manchester United next, can only dream of Europe.

“I think we’ve just got to learn to be a little bit smarter in our play”. “We got that. It was excellent”, said Monk.

“He needs to be protected”.

The champions have won 14 of their 23 first round matches, a win ratio of 61 per cent, higher than all but one current Premier League side.

Chelsea will be looking to start their journey to retaining the Premier League title on a high, when they kick-off the season against Swansea City in Saturday’s evening match.

Jose Mourinho’s side took the lead when Oscar whipped a free kick which was intended as a cross beyond Lukasz Fabianski.

Jose Mourinho’s side twice had the lead, but paid the price for Courtois’ rash challenge on Swansea striker Bafetimbi Gomis as the France worldwide raced through on the counterattack. When I close my eyes and think of me in a football kit, then it is a red one playing...

Much has been made of Chelsea’s failure to attract a box-office name from outside the Premier League this summer.

It was another impressive opening-day display by Garry Monk’s Swansea, who won 2-1 at Manchester United a year ago, and added weight to Mourinho’s prediction that Chelsea will face a fight to retain their title.

CHELSEA manager Jose Mourinho found a new target for his criticism after his team was lucky to escape with a 2-2 draw at home against Swansea to kick off its English Premier League title defence.

Chelsea were fortunate not to become the first ever Premier League champions to start their title defence with defeat after Swansea threatened an opening-day upset.