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Head coach Diego Pablo Simeone of Atletico de Madrid looks on from the bench prior to start the La Liga match between Club Atletico Madrid and UD Las Palmas at Estadio Wanda Metropolitano. (Photo by Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)

Simeone has lost his soldiers but not his bite

Liverpool will come up against a decidedly familiar iron will when they face Atleti

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp. (Alberto Lingria/Reuters)

Chaos theory: How Jürgen Klopp has harnessed the unpredictable

The Liverpool manager has his side playing unstoppable football but it’s the attention to detail off the field that has bred the success

Chelsea midfielder Willian vies with Newcastle United striker Ayoze Perez during the English Premier League football match between Chelsea and Newcastle United at Stamford Bridge in London on January 12 2019. (Adrian Dennis/AFP/Getty Images)

Willian gem sinks Newcastle as Chelsea cement fourth place

Chelsea have won five of their last seven league matches and sit six points clear of fifth-placed Arsenal

Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante scores their first goal past Crystal Palace’s Vicente Guaita (David Klein/Reuters)

Kante’s goal secures Palace coup for Chelsea

N’Golo Kante is growing into his more advanced midfield role with a composed finish that gave Chelsea a 1-0 victory over Crystal Palace

Liverpool’s Xherdan Shaqiri celebrates scoring their second goal (Phil Noble/Reuters)

Liverpool back on top as Shaqiri sinks United, Arsenal’s unbeaten run ends

Jürgen Klopp’s side made it six successive league victories thanks to Shaqiri’s late double

Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri waves to the fans at the end of the match (Russell Cheyne/Reuters)

No Hazard, no problem as Chelsea hit Burnley for four

​Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri believes his side has proved they can cope without Eden Hazard, although he doesn’t want to be missing him much longer

‘Nothing is going to change my opinion of my team. I want to focus to win the game and give a good performance, knowing the quality of the Spurs side,’ says Pep Guardiola. (Carl Recine/Reuters)

Guardiola urges City to stay focused ahead of Spurs test

Since losing to Lyon in the Champions League in September, Guardiola’s side has gone on a seven-game unbeaten run in all competitions

Mohamed Salah is ranked right up with the world’s top goal-scorers and is expected to bag at least a brace against eSwatini in the Africa Cup of Nations on Friday. (Alex Livesey/Getty Images)

Egypt’s hopes on sweating Salah

​Liverpool star Mohamed Salah gets a chance to rediscover his scoring touch when he plays for Egypt against Swaziland

Cristiano Ronaldo’s fans have already dismissed his rape accuser, Kathryn Mayorga, even though the police investigation has only just started. (Gonzalo Arroyo Moreno/Getty Images)
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CR7: Let’s be intelligent hooligans

The rape accusation levelled at Cristiano Ronaldo has his fervent supporters jumping to his defence, but fans need to take a seat

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp (left) and his Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola are two managers who will eagerly pounce on the stagnation of others. (Stu Forster/Getty Images)

​New Premier League era begins

Innovation and enterprise are key as the Wengers and Fergusons wither

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Chelsea’s troubled season has hit a new low — its coach may be to blame

From the very first day of the season, Chelsea, reflecting their manager’s discontent, have seemed totally out of sync on the pitch.

The 2012 European champions are licking their wounds after an embarrassing 3-0 Champions League pummelling by Roma.

What’s going wrong at Chelsea?

Antonio Conte’s Chelsea turned the Premier League title race into a procession in his first season, but worrying cracks are appearing.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Fàbregas admits his pizza hit Ferguson’s face

Confessions emerge from the infamous 2004 "Battle of the Buffet" between Arsenal and Manchester United

Deadly force: Police opened fire to disperse about 30 000 demonstrators

Premier League: Doubters are proven wrong and remarkable goals are made

The Liverpool and Arsenal games have been characterised with amazing goals and a frustrated coach over the past weekend.

Hungry for land: The Economic Freedom Fighters championed the call for the invasion of land. Now the ANC has committed itself to land expropriation.

Musonda Jr shows kids are all right

Chelsea’s uncharacteristic decision to blood youngster pays off in a 5-1 trouncing of Foresters

The 2017 Premier League sees new coaches and players.

Five premier questions

With the Premier League season kicking off on Friday, Steven Griffiths looks at five questions ahead of the new campaign.

According to student leader Sthembiso KaShandu, university staff, trade unions and NGOs have been asked to pledge solidarity with students. (Renata Larroyd)

Hughes is in Chelsea’s sights

The former Chelsea player has overseen impressive progress at Stoke City in recent seasons.

Awie de Swardt, managing director of Futura SA Administrators

Strolling master Fabregas shows where his loyalties lie

How Chelsea’ season would benefit from more glimpses of rhythm and bite from their chief attacking quarterback.

Santie Pretorius lost more than 100kg after undergoing bariatric surgery

Why Arsenal and Chelsea imploded in the Champions League

There’s no way Wenger could have known Ospina would pick that night to make such a grisly error or that Chelsea would show such a "lack of composure".

Of even more concern for Mourinho’s job prospects, the Red Devils are now also seven points adrift of the top four, putting Champions League qualification for next season at risk. (Reuters)

Chelsea a banter-free zone? Seriously, José, you’re having a laugh

Mourinho fails to see the funny side of Chelsea’s early-season flop and seems to think training-ground high jinks are to blame, not bad defending.