3rd Nov

Arsenal 2 - Man Utd 2

Tevez had an early attempt on goal but ending up going wide. Ronaldo Crossed a brilliant ball in from the the right over for Giggs who couldn't Finnish. Giggs then had a shot on goal sending it just over the bar. Tevez and Rooney working well together again and a pass from Tevez through to Rooney was blocked well by the Arsenal defence. Ronaldo managed to squeeze a pass through to Rooney just before half time and Rooney's ricochet shot went in classing as an own goal off Gallas on 45th min. Fabregas brought Arsenal level soon after the second half on 48th min Van Der Sar fumbled the initial save dropping the ball leaving it open for a pass to Fabregas and he made a good finnish. Rooney and Giggs tried some slick play but it didnt work out. Ronaldo made good of some handy work by Evra and slotted away no.2 on the 82nd min. Arsenal had 2 clear chances at this stage of the game and didn't use them but they wouldn't give up and the attacking play payed off when shot after shot was hitting Van Der Sar and it was Gallas that redeemed himself by putting the ball over the line to level it 2 - 2.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Eboue (Walcott 74), Fabregas, Flamini, Rosicky (Eduardo 80), Hleb (Silva 80), Adebayor.
Subs Not Used: Lehmann, Diarra.

Booked: Fabregas.

Goals: Fabregas 48, Gallas 90.

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Brown (O'Shea 71), Ferdinand, Vidic, Evra, Ronaldo, Anderson (Carrick 76), Hargreaves, Giggs, Tevez (Saha 76), Rooney.
Subs Not Used: Kuszczak, Nani.

Booked: Evra, Hargreaves.

Goals: Gallas 45 og, Ronaldo 82.

Att: 60,161

Ref: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire).

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Newcastle 1 - Portsmouth 4

Newcastle had the early shot on goal to test James. Pamarot sent a 25 yd rocket shot off to take lead after 8 mins shortly followed by Mwaruwari then put away no.2 for Portsmouth on 9th min then followed by Utaka on 11th min it was all one way traffic, the boo,s rang out around the stadium at Newcastle for their poor play. Owen then had a chance on goal and took it, his shot struck Campbell to class as an own goal on the 16th min. Joey Barton still hasn't learnt to play clean football as he gave away a free kick resulting in another Portsmouth goal Kranjcar struck an excellent free kick Newcastle defence almost getting to it and almost debatable if it was an own goal.
Portsmouth sit in a top 4 slot.

Newcastle: Harper, Taylor, Faye, Cacapa (Rozehnal 18), Jose Enrique (Martins 57), N'Zogbia, Butt, Barton, Milner (Emre 69), Smith, Owen.
Subs Not Used: Forster, Geremi.

Booked: Smith, Butt.

Goals: Campbell 16 og.

Portsmouth: James, Pamarot, Distin, Campbell, Johnson, Davis, Muntari (Pedro Mendes 87), Diop, Utaka, Kranjcar, Mwaruwari (Kanu 76).
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Lauren, Taylor.

Booked: Distin, Davis.

Goals: Pamarot 8, Mwaruwari 9, Utaka 11, Kranjcar 71.

Att: 51,490

Ref: Chris Foy (Merseyside).
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Fulham 3 - Reading 1

Reading keen to break the spell of their bad away play went to Fulham looking for points. But Fulham had Reading under attack and Davies scored after 18th min taking Fulham ahead. Shorey had a free kick just missing Duberry to bring it level. Doyle brought Reading level in the second half on the 54 min. Kamara had a chance on goal but it was also an appeal for hand ball not given and play went on. Dempsey flicked the ball in from Healy's header to score on 72nd min. Fulham kept the pressure on and Davies worked with Healy for Healy to score on the 90th min. Omozusi was sent off for a bad challenge on Harper and earned himself a straight red.

Fulham: Niemi, Stefanovic, Omozusi, Ashton, Hughes, Davies, Murphy, Davis, Bouazza (Kuqi 60), Dempsey, Kamara (Healy 67).
Subs Not Used: Warner, Ki-Hyeon, Leijer.

Sent Off: Omozusi (90).

Booked: Stefanovic, Omozusi, Healy.

Goals: Davies 18, Dempsey 72, Healy 90.

Reading: Hahnemann, Murty (Long 87), Duberry, Sonko, Shorey, Gunnarsson, Harper, Hunt, Lita (Convey 76), Kitson, Doyle.
Subs Not Used: Federici, Ingimarsson, Rosenior.

Goals: Doyle 54.

Att: 22,086

Ref: Mark Clattenburg (Tyne & Wear).

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Everton 3- Birmingham 1

Yakubu opened up the scoring after 10 mins as he struck from close range. Keeping the lead into the second half it wasnt until the 79th min that Kapo managed to bring it level with a header from a corner, Carsley put that to bed by curling a brilliant shot in high right in added time and then another as Vaughan managed to get through the Birmingham defence to put a simple low shot away.

Everton: Howard, Neville, Yobo, Stubbs (Jagielka 22), Lescott, Arteta, Carsley, Osman (Vaughan 80), Pienaar (Gravesen 85), Cahill, Yakubu.
Subs Not Used: Wessels, McFadden.

Goals: Yakubu 10, Carsley 90, Vaughan 90.

Birmingham: Maik Taylor, Kelly, Schmitz, Djourou, Ridgewell, De Ridder (Forssell 79), Muamba, Nafti (McSheffrey 71), Larsson (O'Connor 52), Kapo, Jerome.
Subs Not Used: Kingson, Danns.

Booked: Kelly.

Goals: Kapo 80.

Att: 35,155

Ref: Mike Riley (Yorkshire).

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Middlesbrough 1 - Tottenham 1

Bent and Defoe put up front for Spurs and it payed off as Bent scored with a low shot near post beating Scharzer on the 35th min. Spurs held the lead until the 52nd min when Luke Young struck a brilliant shot (75mph)high left keeper had no chance. There was an appeal for hand ball from Boro as the ball hit a Spurs defender in the last minutes but not given.

Middlesbrough: Schwarzer, Young, Wheater, Riggott, Taylor, O'Neil, Cattermole, Rochemback (Boateng 77), Downing, Aliadiere (Lee 78), Sanli (Hutchinson 72).
Subs Not Used: Turnbull, Hines.

Booked: Lee.

Goals: Young 52.

Tottenham: Robinson, Chimbonda, Kaboul, Dawson, Lee, Lennon, Jenas, Boateng (Zokora 63), Malbranque, Bent (Berbatov 58), Defoe (Keane 58).
Subs Not Used: Cerny, Stalteri.

Goals: Bent 35.

Att: 25,625

Ref: Mike Dean (Wirral).
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Wigan 0 - Chelsea 2

Bebt missed a early chance as Wigan had most the play in the early minute but chelsea then soon turned things around as Lampard put away from a Wright-Phillips cross on the 11th min the pressure was kept up as Chelsea kept going at it and Belletti struck a good ball to go in high right on the 18th min. Wigan just out played but their defence only had to try to stop Chelsea scoring more as their was no attacking play from Wigan.

Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot, Granqvist, Bramble, Kilbane, Valencia, Brown (Skoko 85), Scharner, Landzaat (Sibierski 82), Koumas, Bent.
Subs Not Used: Pollitt, Aghahowa, Boyce. Booked: Landzaat, Bramble.

Chelsea: Cech, Belletti, Alex, Carvalho, Bridge, Obi, Essien (Sidwell 76), Lampard, Wright-Phillips, Drogba (Kalou 75), Malouda.
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Shevchenko, Ben-Haim.

Booked: Drogba.

Goals: Lampard 11, Belletti 18.

Att: 19,011

Ref: Steve Bennett (Kent).
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Blackburn 0 - Liverpool 0
2 teams looking to finnish in the top 4 so this was going to be a tough game. Blackburn had chances from Bentley and Dunn but hitting the woodwork. Carragher was working very well to keep the ball away from the Blackburn forwards. Gerrard had alot of chances but Freidel wasnt going to be beaten. A very good game they both matched the pace and kept one another working. Blackburn would have been marked as an underdog but they are firing this season as Liverpool are miss firing and may not even finninsh in the top 6 let alone top 4.

Blackburn: Friedel, Ooijer, Samba, Nelsen, Warnock, Emerton, Bentley, Dunn (Kerimoglu 56), Pedersen, Santa Cruz, McCarthy (Derbyshire 89).
Subs Not Used: Brown, Khizanishvili, Treacy.

Liverpool: Reina, Finnan, Carragher, Hyypia, Riise, Benayoun (Crouch 72), Sissoko, Mascherano, Babel (Kewell 63), Gerrard, Kuyt.
Subs Not Used: Martin, Arbeloa, Lucas.

Booked: Carragher.

Att: 30,033

Ref: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire).

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Aston Villa 2 - Derby 0

Derby are looking very battered already and its not even christmas. Deby gave away an early corner almost giving Villa an early goal Bywater blocking the shot. Agbonlahor was just wide with a shot but they didnt miss as Laursen struck home scored on the 57th min. Villa kept the attack up with a good attack with a shot from Agbonlahor being blocked but not caught an d rebounded for Reo-coker to send the ball into the path of Young as he struck the ball into the top of the net to seal the winner on the 61st min. Derby just didnt have any play to talk about as they just couldnt get any play forward.

Aston Villa: Carson, Mellberg, Knight (Davies 88), Bouma, Laursen, Young (Maloney 69), Petrov, Reo-Coker, Barry, Moore (Berger 77), Agbonlahor.
Subs Not Used: Taylor, Gardner.

Goals: Laursen 57, Young 61.

Derby: Bywater, Griffin, Moore, Davis (Teale 46), McEveley, Fagan (Earnshaw 66), Oakley, Leacock, Pearson, Barnes, Howard.
Subs Not Used: Price, Jones, Mears.

Booked: Griffin, Moore, Howard.

Att: 40,938

Ref: Mark Halsey (Lancashire).
Aston Villa 2 - Derby 0
Derby looking very battered and looking for anything