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Chelsea started their 2016-17 title-winning campaign with a 2-1 home win over West Ham Chelsea will begin their title defence at home to Burnley when the 2017-18 Premier League season kicks off on the weekend of 12-13 August. Newly promoted Newcastle host Tottenham, while Brighton welcome Manchester City and Huddersfield visit Crystal Palace. Spurs' first game at Wembley will be against Antonio Conte's champions on the second weekend of the season. Find all your team's fixtures on the BBC Sport website by  clicking here . The precise date of games will be set once TV schedules have been decided. The league season is set to finish on Sunday, 13 May 2018 - a week earlier than last season - with the World Cup finals in Russia starting on 14 June. The English Football League fixtures will be released on Wednesday, 21 June, and Scotland's fixtures two days later. Opening exchanges Questions have been raised about Tottenham's potential to perform at...

5. Eden Hazard   Football has a funny way of messing around with history, for three straight seasons, the sensational Belgian Eden Hazard has had a direct hand in where the premier league title tilts and he’s just done it again, with Westbrom hosting the blues in what proved to be the last drop of the gush of everything brutal from the Stamford Bridge Landlords,the mesmerizing Belgian stood up and got counted as resolute Westbrom went in to act the spoilers. He may have had a season to forget last term, every Chelsea player bar Willian did but from the word go this season he’s made amends in emphatic manners, he added more goals to his game and comes good whenever the big Brazilian upfront decides to go awol. It can be argued by critics but expect the best of Hazard as it’s going to be upward and forward for him, with Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi gradually packing up with age, Neymar, Isco and Dybala have Hazard to worry about when Ballon’dor is...