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Middlesbrough 0 Chelsea 1 AS IT HAPPENED: Diego Costa scores tenth Premier League goal of season after poor Boro defending
Antonio Conte's men stormed to the top of the Premier League table with a comfodrtable win away at the Riverside
CHELSEA took control of the Premier League title race by going top of the table thanks for a Diego Costa strike.
The Spain striker sank the home side at the Riverside with an instinctive first-half strike that took him to 10 in the league already this season.
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The hulking forward reacted quickest in the packed Boro box four minutes before the break to put his side ahead.
And, at the other end of the water-tight Antonio Conte team, Thibaut Courtois pulled off a couple of fine saves to put his side at the head of the pack.
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