Manchester City took full advantage of their Saturday fixture against West Ham United to move to the top of the Premier league, by beating the Hammers 3-1 at Upton Park. With Chelsea playing Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday and Manchester United and Arsenal playing on Monday, City eased to victory thanks to a Yaya Toure strike and a Robert Green own goal, Adam Johnson added a third goal for City to ensure a 3-1 victory, after James Tomkins scored a late consolation goal for the hosts.
The defeat, leaves West Ham bottom of the Premier League, as City are level on points with Arsenal at the top of the league, Arsenal having a superior goal difference. After turbulent week for the Blues with rumours of unrest amongst the players, city fans were singing Roberto Mancini’s name for much of the game.
Aston Villa beat West Bromwich Albion 2-1 in the West Midlands derby match, giving Villa their first victory in five games. Stewart Downing and Emile Heskey scored the Villa goals and Paul Scharner scored a late goal for the visitors, moments later West Bromwich could have snatched a dramatic equaliser, but they spurned the opportunity.
Blackpool continued their impressive start in the Premier league with a hard earned 1-0 victory over Stoke, as they moved into 9th place, DJ Campbell scoring the only goal of the game.
Everton and Wigan battled out a 0-0 draw, as did Fulham and Sunderland, which leaves Fulham dangerously perched above the relegation zone only by goal difference.
Saturday’s evening game saw Newcastle secure an empathic 3-1 victory over Liverpool. After a turbulent week on Tyneside, which saw Newcastle sack manager Chris Hughton and appoint Alan Pardew as his replacement, Newcastle fans protested against owner Mike Ashley before the game, the victory went some way to appease the fans, as Newcastle are now in 8th place in the league.
Sunday’s fixtures saw Bolton secure a dramatic 2-1 victory over Blackburn. Bolton had Mark Davies sent off and as Blackburn looked to take advantage having the extra man, it was the home team that took the lead through Fabrice Muamba, Mame Diouf equalised but a few seconds later Stuart Holden secured the points with a great volleyed goal, in a pulsating end to the match.
Wolves earned three much needed points with a 1-0 victory over Birmingham, which still sees Wolves in the relegation zone, but Birmingham are now only three points above them. Steven Hunt scored the goal for Wanderers, as they went onto to keep a clean sheet for the first time this season.
Chelsea, who are experiencing their worst run of results for 10 years, drew 1-1 with Tottenham Hotspur. Chelsea enjoyed more of the early possession with little result and they were punished as Spurs took a 1-0 lead through Roman Pavlyuchenko after 15 minutes. Didier Drogba, who had started as a substitute, first proved hero as he scored a second half equaliser and then turned villain as he missed an injury time penalty which could have sealed all three points for Chelsea, who now slip to 4th place in the league.
The Monday night game between Manchester United and Arsenal, sent United back to the top of the Premier league and they are now two points clear with a game in hand. Park Ji-sung scored the all important goal with a first-half header, which proved enough to win the game 1-0. United should have scored more and wasted a host of goal scoring opportunities, including a second-half penalty from Wayne Rooney which he sent over the cross bar. Arsenal were at best disappointing, and are yet again the Gunners are left reflecting on a missed opportunity
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