PREMIER LEAGUE
Clement out to give former club Chelsea the blues
Paul Clement will be looking to put a dent in their title hopes this season when he takes his resurgent Swansea City side to Stamford Bridge on Saturday
London — Having helped Chelsea to win the Premier League as assistant to Carlo Ancelotti, Paul Clement will be looking to put a dent in their title hopes this season when he takes his resurgent Swansea City side to Stamford Bridge on Saturday. Clement, who had two spells at Chelsea, was Ancelotti’s right-hand man when they won the double in 2010, and will return for the first time this weekend, having departed the following year. A trip to face the runaway league leaders would be an unenviable task for most teams fighting relegation, but Swansea will head to West London fuelled with confidence. Having taken charge at the start of January with Swansea rock bottom of the Premier League, Clement has overseen a superb turnaround, lifting them four points clear of the relegation zone. Perhaps the biggest testament to the work Clement has done is that his side have collected more points (12) in 2017 than his former employers (11), who hold an imposing eight-point lead at the top of the ta...
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