Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri says his side have reached their mental "limit" after their top-four hopes were dented by Everton's second-half resurgence. As a result, the visitors failed to capitalise on their game in hand, and still sit sixth in the Premier League table, a point behind Manchester United, who they would have leapfrogged had they won. Victory would also have taken them level on points with fourth-placed Arsenal. "We played probably the best 45 minutes of the season and then suddenly at the beginning of the second half we stopped playing; I don't know why," said Sarri. "It is impossible that the situation is a physical problem because if it is, you can go down gradually, not in one second. "It is very difficult for me to explain the change. Probably it is a mental block." When asked how worried he was that Chelsea's mental situation has not been solved, Sarri said: "At the moment, this is our limit. "If we ...

Top  Boost for Arsenal After Beating Man Utd Arsenal struck a potentially significant blow in the race for the Premier League top four with a 2-0 win over Manchester United at Emirates Stadium on Sunday. Arsenal started positively but should have been behind nine minutes in, when Romelu Lukaku steered Luke Shaw's low cross against the crossbar from six yards out. A Granit Xhaka strike and a second-half penalty from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who missed from the spot in the 1-1 draw with Tottenham last week, gave the Gunners three valuable points that lift them into fourth. The result also ends United's nine-game winning run away from home under Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, just four days on from their dramatic Champions League victory over Paris Saint-Germain.