Chelsea stay four points ahead road to champion!!!

Pedro's elegant strike fired Chelsea a step in the direction of the gold standard League identify because the ruthless leaders swept to a 3-0 win at Everton the previous day.

Antonio Conte's aspect labored difficult to break down Everton's cussed resistence, however Pedro's 2nd-1/2 purpose positioned Chelsea on direction for a fourth win of their remaining five league games.late goals from Gary Cahill and Willian wrapped up the victory as the Blues spread out a 4-point lead on the pinnacle, piling pressure on 2nd-placed Tottenham.

Chelsea want 9 points to be assured of being crowned English champions in Conte's first season in price.

Conte placed the emphasis on assault, however the leaders were almost caught bloodless on the returned within the beginning mins.

Everton had been already assured of an area in next season's Europa League, however there was no lack of preference from the hosts as they threw themselves into a series of crunching demanding situations.

Costa seemed furious after a complete-blooded lunge from Tom Davies left him crumpled at the turf and he had a golden opportunity to get revenge while Everton made a hash of coping with an extended skip from David Luiz

Costa received the header and was unchallenged as he spun to volley goalwards, yet the Spaniard still contrived to break his near-variety shot excessive over the bar.

The pass over nearly got here back to haunt Chelsea when Lukaku bullied his manner thru for a low shot that whistled simply wide from the threshold of the place.

Chelsea kept probing and their endurance was rewarded with Pedro's thunderbolt in the 66th minute.

A sustained period of Chelsea pressure driven Everton deep into their own penalty place and when the ball turned into worked to Pedro, the Spanish winger uncorked a fierce 20-backyard strike that flashed into the roof of the net for his first aim due to the fact that February.

With 11 minutes left, danger's low unfastened-kick become driven out via Stekelenburg and Cahill tapped in to trigger chants of "Tottenham, we're anticipating you" from Chelsea's jubilant lovers.

there was nevertheless time for Willian to return off the bench and practice the of completion to an incisive raid inside the 86th minute.

inside the day's earlier healthy, a Gylfi Sigurdsson free-kick dealt a blow to Manchester United's hopes of a top four end while boosting Swansea's probabilities of escaping the drop in an wonderful 1-1 greatest League draw. Wayne Rooney additionally netted his league intention of the season, from a harsh penalty choice, in time introduced on of the primary-half of.

Later inside the day, Dele Alli and Harry Kane kept Tottenham Hotspur in the best League title hunt as their side torpedoed Arsenal 2-0 in White Hart Lane's final north London derby on Sunday.

Mauricio Pochettino's Spurs have now cut the gap with leaders Chelsea to 4 factors with a thrilling display.

the 2 goals arrived inside 146 seconds of each other inside the 2nd half, Alli sprucing off a rebound and Kane netting a penalty to take their respective intention tallies to 17 and 21 for the campaign.

Courtesy-AFP, London.