5 Truths: Chelsea can start celebrating, Carlo Ancelotti and Bayern Munich can't stop celebrating

Chelsea moved 11 points clear at the top of the Premier League table courtesy of a 3-1 win against Swansea, and despite the fact that a costly error from Lukasz Fabianski gifted the Blues the three points, it was another very impressive display from the champions elect. What has become abundantly clear already this season is that Chelsea are by far the best unit in the league, and with 12 games remaining it seems absurd to imagine them even making a title race of it.

Every rotation made by Antonio Conte seems to have no negative effect and so it was again as Cesc Fabregas shone on his 300th Premier League appearance. With his side 11 points clear with 12 games remaining, Conte can certainly start to celebrate with Chelsea's Premier League rivals constantly hoping for a blip that never arrives. The title is Chelsea's already and it has not even been close.

It was always going to be a very special day for Carlo Ancelotti with the Italian celebrating his 1,000th competitive match as a manager, but his bottle of plonk got all the nicer when his team produced a truly breathtaking performance in dismantling, and frankly destroying, Hamburg 8-0 to stay five points clear at the top of the Bundesliga table.

Ancelotti has always been a much-loved manager who has been successful pretty much everywhere he has gone. Having won 18 titles and coached eight clubs, Ancelotti really has reached the very top of his profession and excelled while being both humble and amiable, often under immense pressure. It was a fittingly spectacular result to mark his 1,000th game, and quite rightly he received the kind of pretzel that you can only dream of. Bravo!

Few people had any doubts that Crystal Palace would stay up, despite being in the relegation mire, when Sam Allardyce took over as manager. It is just so predictable that Allardyce will find a way to keep any side up in the latter part of a season that it stops even getting talked about. The manner of Palace's victory over Middlesbrough was brilliantly Allardyce: gritty, efficient and ultimately successful.

Palace, who are 17th, climbed level on 22 points with their opponents as they secured a 1-0 win through Patrick van Aanholt's first goal for the club since his January move from relegation rivals Sunderland, and the result also pushed struggling Premier League champions Leicester City into the relegation zone. There will always be a few surprises in any season, but Allardyce keeping his side up is never one of them.

It's extremely rare for a player to be as consistently exceptional as N'Golo Kante is; so much so, social media was abuzz with breathless talk about how good the Frenchman has been and continues to be. Kante had another monstrous game against Swansea, breaking up the play with such regularity every time the visitors attempted to do anything that it almost seemed cruel.

With Kante it is never a case of one performance standing out from the rest, such is his consistency. The fact that Chelsea signed him for just £32 million seems an outrageous bargain now, even more than it did at the time. The move must go down as one of the best Chelsea have made in the last decade with Kante poised to become a club legend if he can continue his current form - which, of course, he can.

Genuine goalscorers are hard to come by these days, or so we are told. Yet Bayern haven't been without one as Robert Lewandowski has continued his other-worldly scoring form. With 47 goals in his last 54 games for Bayern, the Pole is in the process of racking up a quite breathtaking scoring record for the club, just as he did for Borussia Dortmund.

It is not just Lewandowski's consistency in scoring goals that is remarkable: he also contributes to Bayern's play in ways that he rarely gets credit for. In addition to the fact that he scores goals in his sleep, Lewandowski also takes full advantage when he does find a nice opponent to go up against, as his five hat-tricks for Bayern across all competitions since the start of the season prove. A flat-track bully? He's just a bully full stop when it comes to goalscoring.