Chelsea’s New Year cheer

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Chelsea will start 2017 top of the Premier League if they avoid defeat at Man City, Stuart Pearce has told Premier League Daily.

Antonio Conte’s side are on a seven-match winning run in the Premier League and head to the Etihad for Saturday’s live Sky Sports game a point clear of City and Liverpool at the top.

Just one of Chelsea’s five subsequent opponents are in the top half, and Pearce is predicting a productive December if they can get the City game out of the way without undue damage.

He told Sky Sports News HQ’s Premier League Daily programme: “If you take Chelsea, seven victories on the bounce, their next games after this are really key matches and all winnable.

“If they can …

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