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Sometimes a system change is all it takes to get the ball rolling in the right direction. Such is the case for Chelsea as they return from the international break to face Middlesbrough at Riverside Stadium on Sunday.That mid-season Jose Mourinho sacking and subsequent 10th-place finish from 2015-16 seem like distant memories as Antonio Contes boys have catapulted themselves to second in the Premier League with 25 points heading into the weekends action. The Blues (8-1-2) are amid an impressive five-match winning streak in which theyve outscored their opponents 16-0.They have not yielded a league goal since the 40th minute of a 3-0 loss at Arsenal on Sept. 24.Contes switch to an unconventional 3-4-3 formation has paid immediate dividends and allowed Chelsea to get back to being a defensive force which helped them win a title under Mourinho in 2014-15. In Contes system, Cesar Azpilicueta, David Luiz and Gary Cahill sit in as central defenders, allowing Victor Moses and Marcos Alonso to get up and down the flanks as wing backs.The change in tactics also looks to have had a positive effect on Eden Hazard, who bagged a pair of goals in a 5-0 drubbing of Everton prior to the break. Alonso, Diego Costa and Pedro also scored as the Blues rolled to victory.Conte himself was rewarded for his teams effort, collecting the Premier Leagues Manager of the Month Award for October.This is the first time Ive won the award, its a great honour and I want to share it with my players and the club, he told the official Chelsea website. Its now important we continue and maintain our form. After an international break its not easy to restart but we must follow our way and work very hard.Our next game is against Middlesbrough on Sunday, we know they are really strong and it will be a tough game, but we have prepared very well.The Italian boss also provided a fitness update ahead of this clash.The news is that I have all of the players available, said Conte. They are in good form. Costa had a bit of an injury after the Everton game, he started to train with us on Wednesday and his physical condition is good. We still have tomorrow to look at the situation tactically but at the moment he can play. Eden also recovered very well.Due to that injury, Costa withdrew from the Spanish national teams matches during the break. Hazard also picked up a knock in Belgiums win over Estonia.Middlesbrough (2-5-4) have struggled a bit in their quest to secure a second consecutive season in the top flight.Aitor Karankas boys face Chelsea with a good bit of confidence after playing to a 1-1 draw with Manchester City prior to the break. They will be aiming to win consecutive home Premier League matches for the first time since 2006.Marten De Roon netted the stoppage-time equaliser to cancel out Sergio Agueros 43rd-minute opener.The hosts will likely be a bit shorthanded as defender George Friend picked up a knock in training and could sit, while fellow defender Daniel Ayala has been ruled out.We have a few doubts in terms of fitness, Karanka said. The players who were away have returned, but they have had long journeys. We also have Dani Ayala out, and we have a doubt with George Friend. Friend had a knock on his knee yesterday so we will need to check.Chelsea have had the upper hand in this fixture, winning each of the last five meetings without conceding a goal, including the most recent clash between the sides -- a 2-0 victory in FA Cup play in 2013. Vada Pinson Jersey . NBA officials ruled the court unplayable in the Bucks final exhibition game on Oct. 25 because players were slipping, and the game was cancelled midway through the first period. Reggie Sanders Jersey . For the Wild it was their first win of the season and they now have a record of 1-1-2 while the Jets fall to 2-2. Jets start a six game home stand Friday with another divisional game, home to the Dallas Stars. https://www.cheapredsjerseys.us/675s-freddy-galvis-jersey-reds.html . Traditional contenders Brazil, Greece and Turkey drew the other three spots to complete the 24-team field for this summers tournament in Spain, basketball governing body FIBA announced Saturday at its meeting in Barcelona. 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I hate to say this now to Sunil: I wouldve done this for free.A day after Jurgen Klinsmann was fired following two losses that began the final round of World Cup qualifying, Arena agreed to a contract running through the 2018 tournament in Russia.With the Americans 0-2 at this stage for the first time, the USSF wants to spark a turnaround when competition resumes March 24 with a home game against Honduras followed four days later with a match at Panama. The 65-year-old Arena, inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2010, starts work Dec. 1.We need to build the chemistry of this team and have a common goal and really work on a team concept, he said during a telephone news conference. I really believe individually and positionally we have good players and weve just got to get them working together as a team.There are no real secrets on how you build good teams: It takes a lot of hard work, it takes communication, it takes discipline and it takes some talent, and I think we have enough talent to build a good team and end up in Russia 2018. Its going to take a little time, a little bit patience and a lot of hard work.Arena first took over as national team coach after the 1998 World Cup and led the U.S. to a 71-30-29 record. Gulati fired him, failed to reach a deal with Klinsmann and then brought in Bob Bradley.I dont view it as Bruce 2, but sort of Bruce 2.0, Gulati said. I think hes got far more experience than he did when he had the national team the first go-round. Hes proven and re-proven many times at all levels of the game in the United States that hes an extraordinarily capable and successful coach.A wisecracking Brooklynite known for blunt talk and sarcasm, Arena coached the University of Virginia to five NCAA titles from 1978-95, then led D.C. United to championships in Major League Soccers first two seasons before losing in the 1998 final. He guided the Americans to the teams best World Cup finish since 1930, a 1-0 loss to Germany in the 2002 quarterfinals.Arena was let go after the teams first-round elimination by Ghana in 2006. He coached MLSs New York Red Bulls from July 2006 to November 2007, then was hired the following August by the Galaxy. He led that team to MLS titles in 2011, 2012 and 2014.I thiink 10 years later Im better prepared for this job than I was in 1998 and 2002 and ultimately 2006, so Im hopeful the experiences I had are going to benefit the program, he said.dddddddddddd One of the things you learn from experience is you see things a lot clearer and a lot quicker than you did previously, and the game has slowed down a bit, where I can see as a coach in my position how things are happening on the field.Hired by Gulati in 2011, Klinsmann coached the U.S. to the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup title and the second round of the 2014 World Cup, where the Americans lost to Belgium 2-1 in extra time.Gulati cited three disappointments that led to Klinsmanns firing: not qualifying for the 2017 Confederations Cup, the under-23 teams failure to reach this years Olympics and the poor start to the final round of qualifying in the North and Central American and Caribbean region.The U.S. would have reached the Confederations Cup by winning last years Gold Cup, but Jamaica upset the Americans in the semifinals, and the U.S. lost a playoff to Mexico.Really starting at the Gold Cup, weve had some very up-and-down results, Gulati said. The Gold Cup was a big disappointment for everyone: for Jurgen, for the players, for our fans.Two weeks ago, Gulati said he expected Klinsmann to keep his job through the 2018 World Cup. But Mexico won 2-1 in Columbus, Ohio, the first U.S. home loss in qualifying since 2001. That was followed by a 4-0 defeat last week in Costa Rica, the Americans first four-goal loss in qualifying since 1980.None of us expected the two results we got, Gulati said.He held a series of conversations with USSF board members after last Tuesdays defeat, made the decision Sunday and joined Flynn for a Monday meeting in Los Angeles with Klinsmann.While Gulati returned to New York, Flynn remained in Los Angeles to negotiate Arenas contract, which was agreed to at 11:30 a.m. EST Tuesday and approved by the board 15 minutes later. Arenas return was announced at 1:21 p.m.A star forward for Germany in the 1990s, Klinsmann was criticized by some -- including Arena -- for his use of foreign-born players. Five German-Americans were on his 23-man World Cup roster.If I made those comments, I certainly dont believe that thats my attitude, Arena said. I believe anyone that has a passport in the United States is certainly eligible to play for our national team, and I embrace all players that are eligible to play. I just want to make sure their heart is in the right place and when they place that U.S. jersey on theyre playing for that crest on their shirt. ' ' '