Premier League results for 11th Jan 2009

Man Utd Vidic 45+2 Rooney 63 Berbatov 87	3-0 (HT 1-0)	Chelsea
Bookings: Ronaldo 28 Rooney 66 Park 68		Bookings: Lampard 4 Bosingwa 27 Carvalho 28 Terry 81 Belletti 87

Manchester United turned up the heat on Premier League leaders Liverpool and manager Rafael Benitez as they closed the gap at the top of the table with a convincing win against Chelsea at Old Trafford.

Nemanja Vidic headed United in front in first half injury-time after Dimitar Berbatov flicked on Ryan Giggs' corner.

Wayne Rooney then turned in Patrice Evra's cross after 63 minutes to set United on the path to a deserved three points - leaving them five points behind Liverpool with two games in hand.

Berbatov rounded off the win by grabbing the third from close range four minutes from time, turning in Cristiano Ronaldo's free-kick as United's fans finally sensed their title charge was hitting top gear.

Sir Alex Ferguson will regard the victory as the perfect response to public taunts from Liverpool counterpart Benitez that United may be "a little bit scared" at the sight of their great rivals at the Premier League summit.

Man Utd: Van der Sar, Neville, Vidic, Evans, Evra (O'Shea 66), Ronaldo, Fletcher, Giggs (Carrick 79), Park, Berbatov, Rooney.
Subs Not Used: Kuszczak, Anderson, Scholes, Welbeck, Tevez.

Booked: Ronaldo, Rooney, Park.

Goals: Vidic 45, Rooney 63, Berbatov 87.

Chelsea: Cech, Bosingwa (Belletti 64), Carvalho, Terry, Ashley Cole, Mikel, Joe Cole (Di Santo 85), Lampard, Ballack, Deco (Anelka 46), Drogba.
Subs Not Used: Cudicini, Ivanovic, Ferreira, Kalou.

Booked: Lampard, Bosingwa, Carvalho, Terry, Belletti.

Att: 75,455

Ref: Howard Webb (S Yorkshire)

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Wigan Figueroa 90+1	1-0 (HT 0-0)	Tottenham
Bookings: Valencia 66 Palacios 69 Scharner 81		Bookings: Bale 33 Zokora 72 Woodgate 75

Maynor Figueroa scored in injury time to hand Wigan victory over Tottenham in a match of few chances.

The left-back headed in Ryan Taylor's corner on 90 minutes to notch his first goal for Wigan and ensure Spurs stay in the bottom three in the table.

Earlier, Jamie O'Hara and Didier Zokora dragged shots wide for Spurs, while Emile Heskey was denied by Heurelho Gomes and Amr Zaki headed just wide.

Zaki nodded wide twice more before Figueroa finally made the breakthrough.

It gave Wigan their fourth consecutive league victory - and they did it after making seven changes from the shadow side beaten 3-1 by Spurs in the FA Cup nine days ago.

Tottenham, too, had a different look about them, as they lined up in a 3-5-2 formation.

Wigan: Kirkland, Melchiot, Scharner, Bramble, Figueroa, Valencia, Palacios, Cattermole, Taylor, Heskey, Zaki. Subs Not Used: Pollitt, Edman, Kilbane, Brown, Boyce, De Ridder, Camara.

Booked: Valencia, Palacios, Scharner.

Goals: Figueroa 90.

Tottenham: Gomes, Corluka, Dawson (Jenas 79), Woodgate, King, Bale, Zokora, Modric (Lennon 57), O'Hara, Pavlyuchenko (Bent 53), Defoe. Subs Not Used: Cesar, Bentley, Huddlestone, Campbell.

Booked: Bale, Zokora, Woodgate.

Att: 17,500

Ref: Andre Marriner (W Midlands).