Manchester City are up to fifth in the Premier League, after they consigned Chelsea to a fourth league defeat in six matches at Stamford Bridge yesterday. Goals from Ilkay Gundogan, Phil Foden and Kevin De Bruyne meant the game was over as a contest after just 34 minutes, with the pressure now mounting on Chelsea boss Frank Lampard. And in his column this morning, Ken Early has suggested for the former Blues midfielder should look at himself rather than jumping to criticise his players. He writes: "Where are his landmark victories? Where is his player development? Where is Chelsea's identity? Lampard's second season has been the story of him failing to figure out how to get the best out of one of Europe's strongest squads." Elsewhere yesterday goals from James Maddison and Youri Tielemans gave Leicester City a 2-1 win away to Newcastle. Tonight, Southampton welcome Liverpool to St Mary's (kick-off 8pm).

Three of the four provinces headed into the weekend's derby matches unbeaten in the Pro14 this season, but now only Ulster's record remains intact after their 15-10 win over Munster in a frozen Belfast on Saturday evening. Meanwhile Leinster's 26-match winning run was brought to an end by an inspired Connacht performance at the RDS, with the men from the West running out impressive 35-24 winners. Ulster are now 10 points clear of Leinster in Conference A of the Pro14, with the two sides set to meet in Dublin on Friday night. And McFarland believes his side are capable of inflicting a second-straight defeat on the defending champions. He said: "Are we capable of winning down there? One hundred per cent. What it means is we have to be absolutely on the money, which is better than we were this week. But we knew that anyway. That's exciting."

Elsewhere this morning Johnny Watterson has looked at how cycles of dominance in sport normally reach a natural conclusion, after Celtic's 1-0 defeat to Rangers at the weekend left them needing a miracle to secure a ninth-consecutive league title. And he has suggested the same could well happen to six-in-a-row All-Ireland winners Dublin: "But have those calls to tweak the county borders, to break up and weaken Dublin, died down or have we yet come to understand what happens in cycles, in persistent dominance? What happens, is that it ends. Someone or some team puts a stop to the winning streak, to the winner who can't stop winning."

And Gerwyn Price has become the first Welshman to win the PDC World Championship, after he delivered a supreme display to beat two-time winner Gary Anderson at the Alexandra Palace last night. 35-year-old Price averaged a record 136 in the sixth set and despite missing 11 match darts in a late wobble he was a very convincing winner.