Crystal Palace manager Roy Hodgson said referee Mike Dean was "quite entitled" to give the 87th-minute penalty that saw his side lose to Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium
With the scores level, Bournemouth were gifted the spot-kick when Palace defender Mamadou Sakho swung a forearm into the face of Jefferson Lerma at a free-kick. Junior Stanislas stepped up to score the spot-kick which gave Bournemouth a fourth Premier League win from seven games this season. Hodgson said: "Sakho has no intention to elbow the player or use his elbow to stop the player getting to the ball, because he wouldn't have got to the ball, but I can't deny when you see it on the TV that Mamadou does catch the player and so the referee's quite entitled to give the penalty. "The players feel aggrieved as normally when you give away a penalty you're deliberately trying to stop someone scoring." Bournemouth had been in front after just five minutes when David Brooks curled in off the crossbar for his first Premier League goal. But after half-time Palace improved, and the visitors equalised in the 55th minute when Dutch full-back Patrick van Aanholt beat Asmir Begovic at the near post with a powerful strike into the top corner. The hosts could have won the game even before the penalty however, with Callum Wilson and Dan Gosling both having good efforts saved by Wayne Hennessey. The game ended in bad-tempered fashion as a number of players from both teams were involved in a scuffle after Lerma and Cheikhou Kouyate squared up. Bournemouth have secured their best start to a Premier League season and climb to seventh while Palace stay 13th.
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2018-10-02 02:00:00
Manchester United: Some care more than others - Jose Mourinho
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho says "some [players] care more than others" at the club after their failure to win any of their past three games. In their last two league matches United have drawn with Wolves and lost to West Ham, slipping to 10th in the Premier League table as a result. They were also knocked out of the Carabao Cup by Championship side Derby. Asked if he was worried about his position if the side's poor form continued, Mourinho replied: "No."
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2018-10-02 02:00:00
Maurizio Sarri: How Chelsea manager is transforming the club in his own image
The owner is happy, the players are happy, the fans are happy. Maurizio Sarri may only be six league games into his Chelsea tenure - and faces his biggest challenge yet when his side meet leaders Liverpool on Saturday - but he has already achieved a level of harmony at Stamford Bridge that was clearly lacking last season. From putting treats on the menu to embracing players' opinions and transforming their style of play, it has been a cultural revolution implemented in double-quick time. So what exactly is different at Chelsea this season? And how has Sarri gone about making those changes? Gregarious, tactile and left-leaning - Sarri the man and the manager
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2018-09-28 02:00:00
Aaron Ramsey: Arsenal midfielder set to leave after club withdraws contract offer
Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey is likely to leave the club next summer after the Gunners withdrew the offer of a new deal. The four-year agreement was in place but before a final contract was drawn up, Arsenal pulled out. When contacted by BBC Sport, neither party would say why the deal collapsed. Ramsey's existing contract expires on 30 June 2019 which means the 27-year-old will become a free agent next summer - unless he is sold in January. As things stand, the Welshman will also have the option of signing a pre-contract agreement with a foreign club from 1 January. Ramsey joined the Gunners in 2008 in a
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2018-09-28 02:00:00
Paul Pogba & Jose Mourinho: Where do Manchester United go from here?
A clip of Paul Pogba and Jose Mourinho having a training ground exchange - described as "frosty footage" on social media by one broadcaster - had two million views in just one hour on Wednesday. The level of scrutiny and interest in the two men's interactions has spiked again after another bleak few days at Manchester United. There was an unexpected home draw with Wolves, more criticism of the manager's tactics and an EFL Cup exit on home soil to Championship club Derby. In the last two months alone, media storms have erupted over the club's transfer policy, manager Mourinho's treatment of striker Anthony Martial and now, what appears to be, his broken relationship with
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2018-09-28 02:00:00
Paul Pogba and Jose Mourinho: What now for Man Utd midfielder and manager?
Paul Pogba's relationship with Manchester United boss Jose Mourinho appeared to hit a new low this week. A clip of the midfielder and his manager having a tense exchange on the training ground emerged on Wednesday. Could he be on his way out of Old Trafford ? Could anyone afford to sign him? Or will he end up lasting longer than his manager?
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2018-09-28 02:00:00
Maurizio Sarri: Chelsea a 'step behind' Liverpool, says Blues boss
Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says his side are "a step behind" Premier League leaders Liverpool, who they face twice in the next week. Chelsea go to Anfield in the Carabao Cup on Wednesday, before a league meeting at Stamford Bridge on Saturday. "They have worked with the same coach for four years," said Sarri after the Blues dropped their first points of the season in Sunday's 0-0 draw at West Ham. "I think Liverpool are ahead of us." Manager Jurgen Klopp took charge of the Reds in October 2015, succeeding the sacked Brendan Rodgers with the team 10th in the league. The German guided them to an eighth-place finish that season, as well as the League Cup and Europa League finals, before making the top four in his next two campaigns. Liverpool reached last season's Champions League final - losing 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kiev - and the Reds are two points clear at the top of the Premier League this term after winning all six matches.
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2018-09-24 02:00:00
Arsenal goalkeeper Petr Cech says the Gunners are building momentum after his man-of-the-match performance helped Unai Emery's side see off Everton for a fourth successive Premier League win.
Two goals in three second-half minutes gave the hosts victory and took them up to sixth in the Premier League table. Following a tight first half, in which Dominic Calvert-Lewin squandered a fine second-minute opening for Everton, the Gunners asserted control after the break. Alexandre Lacazette swept a curling shot into the top corner from the edge of the area after Aaron Ramsey's pass. Shortly after, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang poked in from close range after Mesut Ozil broke down the right, cut the ball back and Ramsey nudged it into the path of the Gabon international. Replays suggested that Aubameyang was offside from Ramsey's touch, though Everton could have few complaints from that point with Marco Silva's side looking vulnerable on the break as they attempted to find a response. Arsenal had opened the season with defeats against Manchester City and Chelsea and Cech told BBC Sport: "We had two difficult games to start with, and having lost both you need to find a way to pick yourself up, but now we have four wins in a row which is creating a momentum, and I think it helped us to get through the game." "Everton created a lot of chances in the first half and we had to stick together and wait for our opportunity to score, which made the difference."
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2018-09-24 02:00:00
Chelsea's 100% start to the Premier League season came to an end at West Ham because Eden Hazard was not allowed to influence the game, says Hammers manager Manuel Pellegrini.
Blues boss Maurizio Sarri started his Stamford Bridge reign with five straight league wins but his team could not extend that record and had to settle for a goalless draw against battling opponents on Sunday. Pellegrini - whose side had lost their previous two home league matches - was pleased with how West Ham "allowed Chelsea to have possession" on the right side of the pitch, denying the "dangerous" Marcos Alonso and Hazard much ball on the left. "We played well tactically because we allowed them to have the ball where we wanted, and we defended well," said Pellegrini. "They played most of the game on their right side, so they didn't create too many chances." In the end, Chelsea were grateful for Andriy Yarmokenko's glaring second-half miss, when he headed wide with only keeper Kepa Arrizabalaga to beat and the goal at his mercy, for not suffering their first defeat. The visitors had chances of their own, with West Ham keeper Lukasz Fabianski saving well from substitutes Alvaro Morata and Ross Barkley - but in the end a draw was a fair result in a game that rarely sparked into life. It is a result that drops Chelsea into third place behind Manchester City on goal difference and leaves Liverpool two points clear at the top of the table with a maximum return from their six games.
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2018-09-24 02:00:00
Paul Pogba: Man Utd midfielder misunderstood - France coach Didier Deschamps
Manchester United's World Cup-winning midfielder Paul Pogba has been misunderstood by fans and the media, says his France boss Didier Dechamps. Pogba, 25, fell out of favour at United last season and suggested he was dissatisfied with life at Old Trafford. His displays this term have been mixed too - he set up the opener against Wolves on Saturday, but then lost the ball for the equaliser in a 1-1 draw. Deschamps said the perception of Pogba as "individualistic" is inaccurate. Pogba - who rejoined United from Juventus for a then world record