But late goals from Jordon Ibe and Junior Stanislas turned the game around to inflict a seventh
successive league loss on West Brom, who remain bottom of the table and are 10 points from safety.
Chelsea endured an unforgettable weekend, watching their defense crumble to bits against an equally porous but more determined Arsenal side to leak five goals, the most conceded at Stamford Bridge since 1989, thereby handing Andre Villas - Boas his second
successive league loss.
A run which came about right at the beginning of the year, strangely enough off the back of three
successive league losses, and you get the feeling that Tony Pulis need to somehow bottle this new confidence around the Brittania before it wears off, because it will.
Not exact matches
Christian Benteke's brilliant acrobatic effort had given the visitors a glimmer of hope with five minutes to go, however, they weren't able to avoid a second
successive defeat in the Barclays Premier
League and a third straight
loss against United.
Roma might take some small comfort from the fact that Antonio Conte's Chelsea appear to have plenty of their own problems as evidenced by
successive Premier
League losses to Man City and to Crystal Palace.
He said as much after his team's second
successive loss in the
league.
It has, however, been a steep decline ever since − a 5 - 0
loss at home to Manchester United was their third
successive league defeat, having lost to both Manchester City (2 - 3) and Liverpool (3 - 1) in August − and now the Trotters find themselves hovering precariously above the bottom - three in the table, just a point better off than Norwich.
The issued Vale their fifth
successive loss in the
league, leaving them at the bottom of the table.
Whereas Fulham are striving to avoid a third consecutive home defeat in the
league, after suffering back - to - back 3 - 1
losses against Everton and Tottenham, Liverpool are chasing their fourth
successive away win − their fifth if you include Tuesday's defeat of Chelsea in the cup.