Middlesbrough defender Ben Gibson says the challenge of facing players like Diego Costa is what makes the Premier League so appealing. Gibson has been one of Boros most consistent performers in their return to the top division, earning plaudits as well as being touted as a possible for an England call up. Mboro vs Chelsea November 20, 2016, 3:30pm Live on Get Sky Sports Get a Sky Sports pass They return from the international break full of confidence, after superb away draws with Arsenal and Manchester City and an impressive home win over Bournemouth in their last three games. Next up is another tough test, this time at home to Chelsea at the Riverside as part of Nissan Super Sunday. Six months half price Upgrade to Sky Sports to watch Man Utd v Arsenal on Saturday and get the first six months half price The results have given us a lot of confidence, Gibson said. The Arsenal game in particular felt like a bit of a turning point.We followed that up with a big win against Bournemouth. Then against City we always felt like we were in the game, and Marten (de Roon) bulleted in that header. Watch the Sunday Premier League preview as Chelsea head to the Riverside stadium to take on Middlesbrough In the Premier League, you relish these opportunities. These are the kind of teams youve grown up watching on the telly, scoring goals on Match of the Day.Diego Costa, for example, is the kind of opponent you look forward to as a great challenge. Costa has scored in three of his last four Premier League games to help Chelsea climb into second Thats why we want to be in this league. Were happy if people write us off against teams like this. It gives us that extra motivation to prove people wrong. Premier League questions Will the Reds maintain their impressive start on the South Coast? It might have taken us a little bit of time to adapt to the Premier League but now I think weve remembered our identity. 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His plan is to not have one.Im just going to play my schedule and make adjustments from there, Mahan said. Its too hard to figure out.He is scheduled to play the Phoenix Open, Farmers Insurance Open, AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am and the Northern Trust Open. He is not expecting to play them all.Whenever the baby falls is where hes going to fall, Mahan said.Give him a choice, and the one tournament he would hate to miss is Riviera.I love that place. I love that golf course, Mahan said. Its the end of a four-week stretch. Its the one tournament I want to be in good shape. I enjoy it and really want to win there.But baby comes first. Remember, Mahan was leading the Canadian Open when he left after 36 holes because his wife went into labour.___POINT TAKEN: As more players join the PGA Tour, the gap in the ranking points swings even more toward America.The average points awarded to PGA Tour winners in 2014 was 56.42, compared with 42.13 for winners on the European Tour. That includes the four majors, where the winners automatically get 100 points, and the four World Golf Championships, which averaged 73 points for the winner. Remove those eight events from the equation and the average PGA Tour winner received 49.54 points, compared with 32.54 points in Europe.The PGA Tour points were a slight increase from 2013, while Europe had a slight decrease.Throw out the BMW PGA Championship, the flagship event in Europe which is guaranteed 64 points to the winner, and four final events in the Race to Dubai, and the Scottish Open had the strongest field for a regular European Tour event. It offered 52 points.The PGA Tour had eight regular events that offered 52 points or more. The strongest field for a regular event was the Memorial with 64 points to the winner.As for the playoffs.The four FedEx Cup playoff events offered an average of 67.5 points to the winner. The Final Series in the Race to Dubai offered an average of 54.5 points, and that includes the HSBC Champions, a WGC event.___GWAA AWARDS: Rory McIlroy and Bernhard Langer were runaway winners as the top male and senior player of the year by the Golf Writers Association of America. Stacy Lewis won a tighter race in a more crowded field of contestants for female player of the year.McIlroy received 94 per cent of the vote after a year in which he returned to No. 1 with emphasis by capturing two majors at the British Open and PGA Championship, a World Golf Championship and the European Tour flagship event at Wentworth. Its the second time in three years he has won the GWAA award.This award is testimony to my best year as a professional golfer and something I can aim toward winning again as I go into next season, he said.Langer received 90 per cent of the vote as the senior player of the year. He had five wins, two majors and capturred the Schwab Cup at age 57.ddddddddddddLewis swept the biggest awards on the LPGA Tour — the money title, Vare Trophy for lowest scoring average and points-based player of the year. She received 57 per cent of the GWAA voting over Lydia Ko and U.S. Womens Open champion Michelle Wie.They will be honoured at the GWAA Annual Awards Dinner on April 8 in Augusta, Georgia.___BAES DILEMMA: Bae Sang-Moon smiled as he loaded his golf bag onto a cart at Kapalua on Tuesday.I make big news, huh? he said.Bae might be making more headlines now than when he won the Frys.com Open in October to start the 2014-15 season. According to the Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean faces military conscription after being denied an extension on his overseas travel permit.Bae said he has hired a legal firm to help him sort out the matter with South Korean government, which has to do with how much time he spent at home while being granted an overseas travel permit. He has been in Honolulu over the holidays and practicing at Waialae Country Club. Bae said he does not expect his PGA Tour schedule to be interrupted early in the season and that he has no immediate plans to return to South Korea.But he smiled again when reminded that getting back to South Korea at the end of the PGA Tour is the ultimate goal. The Presidents Cup is going to South Korea for the first time, and there currently are no South Koreans on the International team. Bae is the highest-ranked player from Korea.___WALKERS AFFINITY: Jimmy Walker was born in Oklahoma and raised in Texas. But his favourite courses are far from home.Two of his three victories last year were in California — CordeValle for the Frys.com Open and Pebble Beach. Walker says Pebble Beach and Riviera are two his most favourite courses of the year.He just doesnt know why.Its so different from what Im used to, he said. You get out there, and youre in a different world. Youre out on the beach. Riviera is my favourite tournament of the year. The golf course is so good. And I dont mind poa greens. It kills some guys. But the ball rolls true if you hit it where youre supposed to.___DIVOTS: Hideki Matsuyama, the 22-year-old Japanese star who already has six wins worldwide, has signed with IMG. ... The Westgate Las Vegas Sports Book has Rory McIlroy has the 6-1 favourite to win the Masters, followed by Tiger Woods at 12-1. More interesting are the odds to win multiple majors. Odds are 11-4 that Woods will win one major, 20-1 to win two majors, 100-1 to win three and 250-1 to win them all. Odds are 8-5 for McIlroy to win one major this year, 11-2 to win two, 25-1 to win three and 80-1 to win a calendar Grand Slam. ... Six players at the Hyundai Tournament of Champions are not eligible for the Masters yet — Scott Stallings, Matt Every, Steven Bowditch, Matt Jones, Chesson Hadley and Nick Taylor. Hadley and Taylor won opposite-field events. The other won their PGA Tour events prior to Masters and played Augusta National last year.___STAT OF THE WEEK: Five players from the top 10 in the world ranking did not win on the PGA Tour last year.___FINAL WORD: Why cant it be both? — David Duval, when asked if his priority in 2015 would be his golf or his new role with Golf Channel. ' ' '