Chelsea and Southampton will be one of the main matches kicking off the New Year's Day schedule on Wednesday in the English Premier League and the game comes from St. Mary's Stadium and will be live at 10:00 am et and will be streaming online from the NBC live extra website.
Chelsea comes into the match after getting a nice comeback victory on Sunday after the Boxing Day match and scoreless draw against Arsenal the week before and now the Gunners are back at the top of the table and the Blues are looking to move up after Thursday's match with Southampton. Arsenal sits as the top team heading into 2014 and this comes after Liverpool knocked the club off for a hot second and the Gunners now have 13 wins on the season and a one point lead in the standings over Man City, while Chelsea is two points behind the leaders.
Manchester City got a nice result over the weekend and now they are in second position over Chelsea heading into 2014. The Blues come into Thursday with 12 wins on the season and 40 points overall and they are three up over Everton, who has been playing very well of late, while Luis Suarez and the Reds are one point behind that in the standings. Southampton comes into the match against Chelsea after losing against Everton in Sunday 2-1 and that came after the team got an early goal from Seamus Coleman before allowing Everton to come back with two goals minutes apart from Romelu Lukaku and Gaston Ramirez to get the victory.
Arsenal reached back to the top of the table over Chelsea with a win against Newcastle United on Sunday and that was a tight game that saw just one total goal and it was for the Gunners in the victory off the foot of Olivier Giroud, who has been one of the top scores in the EPL this season.
