where chelsea secured their first league win since boxing day. they had already beaten spurs home and away in the league cup semifinal and this was another one—sided match. 2—0 the final score as they consolidated third in the table, craig templeton reports. chelsea templeton reports. tottenham for the third time chelsea tottenham for the third time in 19 days, if absence makes the heart grow fonder, does regularity make it grow stronger? if you look at this from matt doherty, this from mason mount and this from thiago silva, it seems like the answer is yes. eventually, it gave tottenham thinking they scored the opening goal, only for it to be ruled out. judge for yourself whether this is a push. a man who was just on the floor then found himself in the air, thiago silva just finding range

perhaps. it was a game that needed a moment of real quality, step forward hakim ziyech. a strike so good that the goalkeeper watched it sold past him. chelsea have been dominant against spurs and now it is happening again, thiago silva 2—0, range bound. harry kane had a chance late on but he was kept out and so it was chelsea's day, three points, three wins in three weeks against their old manager and just whisper it, but are chelsea back in this title race? still a long way off a. spurs could have moved into the top four with a win, but that's a first league defeat under antonio conte, they are seventh but only three points off the top four and games in hand. chelsea have played more games than any other team, but that win consolidates third place. let's hearfrom the managers.

we had a good atmosphere, good quality in training and when we arrived this morning, i could feel that everybody is excited to play. it is one thing to be excited and full of expectations to play and then to play it, because it was tough and was physically tough, so full credit. i think we deserved it and today everyone was excellent. i am proud of my players, because we made _ am proud of my players, because we made a _ am proud of my players, because we made a big _ am proud of my players, because we made a big effort today to try and -et made a big effort today to try and get a _ made a big effort today to try and get a good result, but sometimes it is not _ get a good result, but sometimes it is not enough to give your 100%, because — is not enough to give your 100%, because when you play against a team and squad _ because when you play against a team and squad like this, it is not simple _ second—placed liverpool have made up some ground on the leaders

manchester city with a 3—1win at crystal palace. they were cruising at half—time, virgil van dijk got the liverpool opener with a thumping header at selhurst park. alex oxlade—chamberlain doubled the lead just before the break. palace created lots of chances in the second half and deserved the goal when it came. odsonne edouard gave them hope with more than half an hour left. but that was snuffed out by a var penalty decision late on, the officials deciding diogojota had been fouled. fabinho scored from the spot, liverpool are now nine points behind city, who dropped points yesterday, with a game in hand. each premier league game is incredibly difficult, as we saw today, so we do not take it for granted that we will win these games, but we did in the end with possession and all the things, more chances, we deserved to win it, but we made it a bit more exciting than necessary. we know that, we take that,

we will work with that and then we will see what will happen in the next few months. arsenal could have moved into the top four with a win at home to burnley but they were held to a goaless draw. the gunners had enough chances to win it, but burnley keeper nick pope had a good game for the bottom side. they remain four points off safety but do have four games in hand. that's five games without a win for arsenal in all competitions. one other result in the premier league — patson daka gave leicester the lead straight after the break at home to brighton, but danny welbeck scored an equlaiser in the last five minutes. 1—1 at the king power. chelsea slipped up in the women's super leauge, the reigning champions have lost second spot after they were held to a goalless draw at brighton. striker fran kirby had the best chance of the match late in the second half, but couldn't get past brighton keeper megan walsh who had an outstanding game.

brighton had lost the previous four league games, big opportunity missed by chelsea. there's a full programme in the wsl with all 12 teams in action. there's a full programme in the wsl with all 12 teams in action. manchester united have moved above chelsea into second after a 3—0 win over tottenham. aston villa got a late winner at leicester. bottom club birmingham were 2—0 up but lost 3—2 at reading. west ham beat everton 3—0. the last 16 knockout stage at the africa cup of nations is underway. burkina faso are the first team through to the quarterfinals. 1—1 after extra time in limbe they came through a penalty shootout against gabon. lydia campbell reports. to the end of the group stage comes the knockout, burkina faso and gabon with the order of getting things rolling in cameroon and with 15 minutes gone, it was burkina faso with the first big chance, a penalty given for this challenge, but striking the crossbar was traore. but they responded well to that squandered opportunity, traore this

time with an inch perfect finish to open the scoring. in the second half, the bonnet made things much more difficult for themselves. sidney given a second yellow for this pull—back. only 1— 08 down, always a chance, and further gabon came... and with no goal in the extra 30 minutes, it came down to who could hold their nerve and with nine penalties each, it was gabon who crumbled and it was ensured burkina faso marched on. it's half time in the second of the day's games — nigeria against tunisia, two former winners of the competition.

nigeria are the only team with a 100% record from the group stages. let's have a quick look at some of the other headlines. in golf, belgian thomas pieters won the abu dhabi hsbc championship. he went round in level par in his final round to finish on 10 under to win by a single shot. that's his sixth tour title. there was another wash—out in the women's ashes with the third t20 abandoned in adelaide. australia lead england 11—2 in the multi—format series and they will retain the ashes if they win the one—off test that starts this week. at the age of a7, sebastien loeb has become then oldest winner of a world championship rally. the nine—time world champion, won the season opening monte carlo rally as a guest driver for ford. he retired from full—time rallying ten years ago. the quarterfinal line—up at the australian open is beginning to take shape. rafa nadal survived the longest tie—break of his career to come through in straight sets against adrian mannarino. ash barty, the world number one, is carrying a lot of expectation in the women's draw, as she looks to become the first home champion in melbourne in 44 years. here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. cheering hear that?

it is all australia's expectation, it's all for ash barty. herjob of course was to serve, to play, to ignore everything but the ball. first set 6—4. ok, australia, get carried away, just a bit. her opponent, america's amanda anisimova, at 20, may well win a grand slam one day, women's tennis has so many possibilities, but ash barty is ranked number one for a reason. when she finds her best level, well, who can live with it? second set 6—3, into the quarterfinal, but melbourne sees the future. ash barty�*s the only champion they can imagine. after 20 years in professional tennis, something new for rafael nadal — 16 points to win a tie—break, a staggering first set against adrian mannarino. from there, the frenchman understandably faded — nadal

through in three sets. could he add a 21st grand slam title at 35? you have got to be in it to win it and unlike federer and djokovic, nadal is. joe wilson, bbc news. so, nadal through to the quarters. next up for him is the canadian denis shapovalov who stunned the third seed alexander zverev. if he is able to keep improving, he will be a multi—grand slam winner. he has a lot of amazing things of his game and his results say that. when he is playing well, it is very difficult to stop him. if you are watching sportsday in the last hour, said we were to tidy up some of the rugby union results for you. exeter chiefs will face munster in the last 16 of the european champions cup after a defeat to montpellier this evening — losing 37—26 in pool a. exeter had already qualified for the knockout

stages before the game, but montpellier needed a win to reach the top eight in the pool. this was their final try of the game, scored by cobus reinach, which was their bonus point try and confirmation of their place in the last 16, at the expense of glasgow. they'll face quins. so, munster next for exeter, the irish side beat wasps 45—7 in limerick. wasps needed to win or avoid a heavy defeat to qualify but did neither so they are out. they drop into the challenge cup. simon zebo scored two of the home side's six tries and is now their record european try—scorer with 25. they finished third in their pool. sale have also made it through to the last 16, they beat ospreys 49—10. sale suffered a narrow defeat to clermont last week which put their qualification hopes on ice but the win was never in doubt.

this was the best of their seven tries and also the final one, jack metcalfe going over. ospreys remain bottom of pool a with no match points. they do not even get to play in the challenge cup. stade francais needed at least a six—point winning margin to make it into the last 16 and remarkably, they did it, in the last few seconds of the game against already qualified connacht. joris segonds kicked the penalty to give 1a—man stade a 37—31victory. they qualify at cardiff's expense. there you go, you are right up to date with all the rugby union, but do not take my word for it, go to the bbc sport website. just to clarify all those results, it has been a busy day, but that is it from sportsday, from here at the bbc sportsday, from here at the bbc sport centre. goodbye. good evening. it has been a

predominantly cloudy weekend, we have lost the bright sunshine of last week but have not picked up much rain and actually, so far this january, we have only had about 50% of the rainfall we would normally see by this time. that dry theme continues for at least another day or two, because of this area of high pressure. yes, we do have some weather fronts, pressure. yes, we do have some weatherfronts, because pressure. yes, we do have some weather fronts, because they come southwards into the high pressure, they tend to get squeezed out and not really much rain left on them. number sunshine, not really much rain left on them. numbersunshine, little not really much rain left on them. number sunshine, little in the south—west, more in the south east of scotland and dominantly cloudy skies will persist through this evening and overnight. where we do have breaks, we will see a little bit of patchy fog, little bit of patchy frost, but neither widespread. the rain in the north one will not be particularly heavy, but that is a weather front that will bring cloudy skies and hill fog to northern scotland and it will sink southwards on monday. some brighter skies to the south of scotland, northern ireland, perhaps

northern england and the midlands but for the south quite gloomy and cold. particularly where any morning mist and fog link is, four or 5 degrees. we should see sunshine up into the northern isles through the afternoon. then that weather front pivots back on itself, not much rain around on it as you can see during the course of monday night to tuesday. stilljust patchy frost the course of monday night to tuesday. still just patchy frost and fog. does not change much at all. very little wind to move things up, indeed monday less windy than sunday and still not very windy on tuesday either without weather front still in close proximity to the north west of scotland and again when we have that morning mist and low cloud and fog it will be cold and quite gloomy. because that high pressure is just trapping that because underneath and no wind to move it off, but by mid week, just the chance that things may change, particularly towards the north, as they went at start to strengthen and atlantic weather front comes in and just enough wind to mix the air up a

bit, breaks and holes in that crowd and see some sunshine and temperatures also because the wind is starting to come in will start to lift a little bit, bit above average so it will start to feel a bit milder, particularly given a bit of sunshine which is coming through in the forecast charts. as ever, more on the website.

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