1st December

Aston Villa 1 - Arsenal 2

Gardener opened up the scoring for Villa after 14 mins with a side footed shot after 14 mins. Flamini's cracking shot beat Carson to bring it all level after 23 mins. Adabayor finished it all on 36 mins with a header taking Arsenal in front. Carew came very close to bringing things level but his header hit the cross bar.

Aston Villa: Carson, Mellberg, Knight, Laursen, Bouma (Berger 76), Gardner, Petrov (Maloney 32), Barry, Young, Agbonlahor, Carew.
Subs Not Used: Taylor, Harewood, Davies.

Booked: Bouma, Carew, Young.

Goals: Gardner 14.

Arsenal: Almunia, Sagna, Toure, Gallas, Clichy, Eboue, Diarra, Flamini, Rosicky (Silva 74), Hleb (Walcott 60), Adebayor (Bendtner 90).
Subs Not Used: Lehmann, Senderos.

Booked: Adebayor, Gallas.

Goals: Flamini 23, Adebayor 36.

Att: 42,018

Ref: Chris Foy (Merseyside).

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Blackburn 3 - Newcastle 1

Blackburn looking for a win after recent games lost and where else to do it but St James Park. Both sides played very well in the first half and held their own not giving an inch finishing 0 - 0 at half time. The half time talks must have had some effect on each side as they came out like 2 different teams. Martins scored for Newcastle on 47th min with a header from Martins from Geremi's free kick. Bentley took it level as he shot a brilliant free kick from 22 yds out on the 54th min. Bentley then scored again with a long shot 25yds out on the 67th min. Tugay scored a last minute goal to give Blackburn 3 on the 90th minute.

Blackburn: Friedel, Emerton, Ooijer, Samba, Warnock, Bentley, Kerimoglu, Mokoena (Reid 66), Dunn (Pedersen 58), Santa Cruz, McCarthy (Roberts 61).
Subs Not Used: Brown, Savage.

Booked: Bentley, Kerimoglu.

Goals: Bentley 54, 67, Tugay 90.

Newcastle: Given, Beye, Rozehnal, Faye (Carr 24), N'Zogbia, Geremi, Butt, Barton, Martins, Smith, Milner, Carr (Viduka 72).
Subs Not Used: Harper, Jose Enrique, Emre.

Booked: Butt, Barton, Milner.

Goals: Martins 47.

Att: 27,477

Ref: Martin Atkinson (W Yorkshire).
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Chelsea 1 - West Ham 0
West ham did an excellent job holding Chelsea back through the game. In saying that it was a very scrappy game, 7 bookings in all and the worse of it was Boa Morte and Terry started a set to earning a card each. The first half was tarnished with scrappy foul play and the first goal dindt come until the 76th minute from Joe Cole with a header.

Chelsea: Cudicini, Belletti, Alex, Terry, Bridge, Sidwell (Wright-Phillips 66), Obi, Lampard, Kalou, Drogba, Joe Cole (Makelele 89).
Subs Not Used: Hilario, Shevchenko, Ben-Haim.

Booked: Obi, Kalou, Belletti, Lampard, Terry.

Goals: Joe Cole 76.

West Ham: Green, Neill, Gabbidon, Upson, McCartney, Solano (Ljungberg 74), Parker (Spector 79), Mullins, Etherington (Ashton 79), Boa Morte, Cole.
Subs Not Used: Wright, Collins.

Booked: Etherington, Solano, Boa Morte.

Att: 41,830

Ref: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire).

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Portsmouth 0 - Everton 0

Two teams looking to make sure they finish in a decent position to qualify for European football, Everton of course achieving this last season but Pompey keen to get there at the end of this season as only managing to finish 9th. Muntari had 2 attempts close to goal but went wide, David Moyes tried to inject some spark into the game and brought on Andy Johnson but still no goals.

Portsmouth: James, Johnson, Campbell, Distin, Pamarot, Utaka (Kanu 57), Diop, Pedro Mendes, Muntari, Kranjcar, Mwaruwari.
Subs Not Used: Ashdown, Hreidarsson, Nugent, Taylor.

Booked: Muntari.

Everton: Howard, Neville, Yobo, Lescott, Nuno Valente, Arteta, Osman, Carsley, Cahill, Pienaar (Johnson 53), Yakubu (Anichebe 67).
Subs Not Used: Wessels, Hibbert, Jagielka.

Booked: Pienaar, Cahill.

Att: 20,102

Ref: Peter Walton (Northamptonshire).

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Reading 1 - Middlesbrough 1

Reading looking for some points to go into December with a bit more confidence, alas Boro also looking for any thing to them away from the drop zone. The first half was really pretty awful and it wasnt until the second half that Dave Kitson managed to make use of a ball flicked on from Doyle to flick the ball over the keeper and in for a goal on the 54th minute. Sonko and Hahnemann had a bit of a ding dong due to some poor defending from Sonko, Tuncay managed a goal as Reading once again just sat there and didnt try after they scored their goal, Boro just went in behind the Reading defence and Tuncay put the ball away all looked to easy and put Reading to shame real de ja vue from last week at Man City.

Reading: Hahnemann, Murty, Sonko, Ingimarsson, Shorey, Hunt, Harper, Gunnarsson (Long 86), Convey (Bikey 77), Doyle, Kitson.
Subs Not Used: Federici, Cisse, Rosenior.

Booked: Murty, Gunnarsson.

Goals: Kitson 54.

Middlesbrough: Turnbull, Young, Woodgate (Huth 69), Wheater, Pogatetz, Johnson (Cattermole 89), Boateng, Rochemback, Downing, Aliadiere, Lee (Sanli 70).
Subs Not Used: Steele, Hutchinson.

Booked: Johnson.

Goals: Sanli 83

Att: 22,262

Ref: Alan Wiley (Staffordshire)
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Sunderland 1 - Derby 0

Roy Keane was very happy to get a point today after a bit of a battering they've had lately. Paul Jewell back in the driving seat of management in the Premier League. Jones had a good on target header saved by Bywater. Miller tried the skill of Ward with a strong shot. But the winning goal wasnt scored until the game was deep into injury time by Stokes.

Sunderland: Ward, Halford, McShane, Higginbotham, Collins, Edwards (Stokes 78), Leadbitter (Miller 83), Whitehead, Wallace, Jones, Cole (Chopra 64).
Subs Not Used: Gordon, Harte.

Booked: Stokes.

Goals: Stokes 90.

Derby: Bywater, Griffin, Davis, Moore, McEveley, Teale (Leacock 84), Oakley, Pearson, Barnes (Fagan 70), Howard, Miller (Earnshaw 86).
Subs Not Used: Price, Mears.

Booked: McEveley.

Att: 42,380

Ref: Mark Halsey (Lancashire).

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Wigan 1 - Man City 1

It only took City 30 sec to score from an error from Titus Bramble Giovanni took advantage and scored. Wigan came back with a powerful header from Scharner on the 25th min . Melchiot was sent off on the 88th minute for a 2 footed challenge on Ireland.

Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot, Bramble, Boyce, Kilbane, Valencia, Scharner, Landzaat, Koumas, Bent, Heskey (Taylor 53).
Subs Not Used: Pollitt, Granqvist, Cotterill, Skoko.

Sent Off: Melchiot (88).

Booked: Bramble, Scharner.

Goals: Scharner 25.

Man City: Isaksson, Corluka, Dunne, Richards, Garrido (Ball 36), Ireland, Hamann, Gelson, Geovanni (Etuhu 69), Petrov, Samaras (Bianchi 78).
Subs Not Used: Hart, Jihai.

Booked: Hamann, Ball.

Goals: Geovanni 1.

Att: 18,614

Ref: Mike Riley (Yorkshire).