| Aston Villa 3-2 Chelsea | Crespo put Chelsea ahead early in the 1st half, netting the rebound from Mutu\rquote s shot which hit the bar. When Melchiot flattened Gareth Barry inside the Chelsea area, Jeff Winter immediately pointed to the spot, Vassell converting. Just after the break Villa were ahead, Thomas Hitzlsperger giving them the lead, before Hendrie made it 3-1. Crespo grabbed a goal back, but it was to little, to late for Chelsea, who are now certainly out of the title race. |
Crespo 10 Vassell(pen) 37 Hitzlsperger 47 Hendrie 51 Crespo 90 |
| Newcastle 0-0 Arsenal (sun) | Newcastle's strong defence prevented Arsenal from getting a goal, and grabbed them a vital point in a weekend where Liverpool failed to pick up a single point from either of their two games. | |
| Portsmouth 3-1 Birmingham | Taylor and Taylor got caught in a disastrous mix up which saw Pompey score from a free kick, and (Maik) Taylor sent off for handling outside the box. Play was brought back for a Pompey free kick and Maik Taylor sent off. Most teams woul d be happy with this, but not Portsmouth, whose striker Yakubu had scored just seconds after the incident. Harry Redknapp and his team were furious, but only for a minute as Stefanovic scored from the free kick. LuaLua added to the lead after a fine run d own the wing. John gave Birmingham some hope, but it was short lived as Yakubu scored from the spot just minutes later after a Cunningham handball. | Stefanovic 45 Lua Lua 62 John 67 Yakubu(pen) 73 |
| Tottenham 1-1 Man.City | Anelka put City ahead in a game dominated by Spurs, who only managed to get a point, Defoe equalizing after 52 minutes. | Anelka 25 Defoe 52 |
| Liverpool 0-1 Charlton | Charlton out of the race for the last Champions League place? Not after this result. Liverpool were poor, booed off at half time by some fans \endash and it was still 0-0 then. There were very few signs of the Liverpool side the Kop saw seven days ago against Blackburn. Charlton were forced to defend though, Hamman saw two shots cleared off the line just after Bartlett headed Charlton ahead from a corner they shouldn\rquote t had, however, they did have a good penalty shout turned down just before the goal. | Bartlett 67 |
| Middlesbourgh 3-1 Southampton | Middlesbourgh were rampant as they beat Saints at the Riverside.Some slick play brought a close range finish for Juninho before Nemeth put in a rebound. Juninho then set up the third for Maccarone. Southampton did get one through James Beattie but it was a consolation. | Juninho 00 Nemeth 00 Maccarone 00 Beattie 00 |
| Wolves 1-2 Bolton | Another last gasp goal broke Wolves hea rts, and by now they must be getting used to it. Pedersen put Bolton ahead just before the break, but Camara grabbed an instant equalizer. But Davies grabbed a late winner for Bolton, which means Wolves look set for division 1. | Pedersen 43 Camara 44 Davies 90 |
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