27th Oct

Chelsea 6 - Man City 0

I wouldn't have put money on a win from Chelsea given the recent wins from City but city just couldn't get started. Petrov put Cech under pressure with a good on target shot but safely saved.Essien opened up after 16 mins. Next was the wizardry of Lampard and Drogba that took first blood with a great pass through to Drogba to finish on 31 mins. Drogba was brought down in the penalty area by Hamman was very lucky not to have been booked on the replay it showed a definite penalty. Ireland missed a good chance as City built up a good attack. Petrov just missed with a free kick by send the ball just over the cross bar. Lampard had a shot blocked by Hart which re bounded back out for Drogba to finish on 55 mins. Joe Cole took advantage of all the space the on the right wing and ran all the way to put away another on 60 mins. almost straight away city gave another chance for Joe Cole by giving him loads of room to almost doing the same move. Essien passed a brilliant ball through to Kalou to make it 5 on 75th min. The icing on the cake was put on by Schevchenko on the 90th min making it 6 nil.

Chelsea: Cech, Belletti, Carvalho, Alex, Ferreira, Joe Cole (Shevchenko 67), Essien, Lampard, Obi, Kalou, Drogba (Pizarro 80).
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Makelele, Ben-Haim.

Booked: Essien, Lampard.

Goals: Essien 16, Drogba 31, 56, Joe Cole 60, Kalou 75, Shevchenko 90.

Man City: Hart, Corluka, Dunne, Richards, Garrido, Ireland (Vassell 63), Hamann (Ball 66), Johnson, Petrov, Elano (Bianchi 73), Samaras.
Subs Not Used: Isaksson, Onuoha.

Booked: Richards, Johnson.

Att: 41,832

Ref: Mike Riley (Yorkshire).
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Man Utd 4- Middlesbrough 1

Boro had a little bit of and early flare but this was soon put out by a long shot from Nani in 3 mins . Aliadiere then answered back in 6 mins for Boro with a header . Rooney took advantage of a poor pass from Downing to run on with the ball to score on 33rd min. Back heel from Rooney to Tevez went on to make it 3 on 55th min. Tevez again struck a shoot which took a deflection but spun in the air and fell in the goal giving it to Man Utd the 4th on 85th min.

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown, Ferdinand (Pique 73), Vidic, O'Shea, Ronaldo, Hargreaves (Fletcher 66), Anderson (Giggs 78), Nani, Rooney, Tevez.
Subs Not Used: Kuszczak, Simpson.

Goals: Nani 3, Rooney 33, Tevez 55, 85.

Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Young, Woodgate, Wheater, Taylor, O'Neil, Cattermole (Boateng 90), Rochemback, Downing, Aliadiere (Hutchinson 56), Sanli (Lee 80).
Subs Not Used: Turnbull, Hines.

Booked: Cattermole, Rochemback.

Goals: Aliadiere 6.

Att: 75,720

Ref: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire)
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Reading 2- Newcastle 1

Royals looking for points again came out very strong and ruled most of the game. Lita missed an early chance from a good cross from Doyle. Owen had a chance but the ball was steered clear by Murty. Newcastle nearly scored an own goal as a poor pass back to Given. Hunt passed to Kitson for a brilliant shot on 53rd min to take the lead. A free kick to Newcastle resulted in Duberry chesting the ball into his own goal putting it even on 76th min. Long was brought on and scored the winner on the 84th min to beat his international team mate Given.

Reading: Hahnemann, Murty (Rosenior 86), Sonko, Duberry, Shorey, Lita (Long 83), Gunnarsson, Harper, Hunt, Doyle, Kitson.
Subs Not Used: Federici, Ingimarsson, Convey.

Goals: Kitson 53, Long 84.

Newcastle: Given, Beye, Faye (Milner 74), Cacapa, Jose Enrique, Geremi, Barton, Butt (N'Zogbia 58), Emre, Martins (Smith 58), Owen.
Subs Not Used: Harper, Rozehnal.

Booked: Faye.

Goals: Duberry 76 og.

Att: 24,119

Ref: Phil Dowd (Staffordshire).
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Birmingham 3 - Wigan 2

The cloud of doubt was blown away if Steve Bruce will stay. Jerome had a good build up with play but the center player missed the chance. It was Marcus bent who opened the scoring on 23rd min for Wigan. Birmingham then won a penalty 3 mins later with Kapo putting it even. A defending mix up cost Birmingham a goal a Bent took advantage . Smith steered a good header in for Ridgewell to finish and once again all even 2 - 2 on 67th min . Kapo finish it for with a very cool turn an shoot on the 81st min .

Birmingham: Maik Taylor, Kelly, Schmitz, Ridgewell, Queudrue, De Ridder (McSheffrey 90), Muamba (O'Connor 62), Nafti, Palacios (Larsson 78), Kapo, Jerome.
Subs Not Used: Kingson, Danns.

Goals: Kapo 26 pen, Ridgewell 67, Kapo 81.

Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot, Granqvist, Bramble, Kilbane, Valencia, Scharner, Landzaat, Koumas, Sibierski (Aghahowa 84), Bent.
Subs Not Used: Pollitt, Taylor, Boyce, Skoko.

Booked: Scharner.

Goals: Bent 23, 59.

Att: 27,661

Ref: Steve Tanner (Somerset).

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Portsmouth 0 - West Ham 0

West Ham missed chances galore in this game and Bellamy threw his teddy in the corner. Green made a stunning save on the 90th min from a penalty shot taken by Benjani, Bellamy was moaning all through the match and him and Hreidarsson where both booked for for throwing wobblers at one another. Solano missed the chance of the season with an open goal.

Portsmouth: James, Johnson, Campbell, Distin, Hreidarsson, Utaka (Kanu 77), Diop, Pedro Mendes, Muntari, Kranjcar, Mwaruwari.
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Lauren, Taylor, Pamarot.

Booked: Hreidarsson, Diop.

West Ham: Green, Neill, Gabbidon, Upson, McCartney, Solano (Spector 78), Noble, Mullins, Boa Morte, Bellamy (Etherington 46), Cole (Ferdinand 90).
Subs Not Used: Wright, Camara.

Booked: Bellamy, Noble, Solano, Cole.

Att: 20,525

Ref: Mike Dean (Wirral).

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Sunderland 1 - Fulham 1

Not the most exciting of games. Davies sored from a good free kick to beat Gordon. Halford was shown his second yellow as he got caught pulling Healy's shirt taking Sunderland down to 10 men. Jones scored a late goal with a well aimed header on the 86th min to take it all even.

Sunderland: Gordon, Halford, Nosworthy, Higginbotham, Collins, Leadbitter, Etuhu (Stokes 61), Miller, Wallace (Harte 71), Jones, Chopra (Murphy 61).
Subs Not Used: Ward, Connolly.

Sent Off: Halford (67).

Booked: Halford.

Goals: Jones 86.

Fulham: Niemi, Omozusi, Hughes, Stefanovic, Bocanegra, Davies, Davis, Murphy, Dempsey, Kamara (Ki-Hyeon 82), Healy (Kuqi 69).
Subs Not Used: Warner, Smertin, Ashton.

Booked: Dempsey, Davies, Stefanovic, Bocanegra.

Goals: Davies 32.

Att: 39,392

Ref: Andre Marriner (W Midlands).