So… an interesting weekend of football. Utd and Chelsea won convincingly – 2-0 did not do either of them justice – Liverpool won stirringly, coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2 at Man City, and Arsenal continued their recent erratic form, scraping a last minute draw against Sunderland on the back of a tremendous 4-0 win in Europe.
At the bottom, baffliingly, hilariously and somewhat unbelievably, Tottenham lost 1-0 at home to Hull. Its difficult to choose which is more suprising, the defeat for Spurs or the win for Hull. Newcastle came from two behind to snatch a draw against Everton, in a game between two teams low on confidence. Everton will wonder where their next win is coming from if they cannot hold onto a 2-0 lead at home to the Geordies.
And of the more inconsequential teams, Boro got a good win at home to Wigan, Portsmouth outclassed Stoke, and West Brom inflicted Fulham’s fourth consecutive defeat. Finally, a result that surprised me, Bolton winning 3-1 at West Ham. All results and scorers in full below:
Sunday, 05 October 2008
| Chelsea | 2-0 (HT 2-0) |
Aston Villa |
| J Cole 21 Anelka 44 |
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| Bookings: Cuellar 68 Petrov 78 Shorey 85 |
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| Everton | 2-2 (HT 2-1) |
Newcastle |
| Arteta (pen) 17 Fellaini 35 |
Taylor 45+2 Duff 47 |
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| Bookings: Fellaini 73 |
Bookings: N’Zogbia 25 Butt 44 Geremi 74 |
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| Man City | 2-3 (HT 2-0) |
Liverpool |
| Ireland 19 Garrido 41 |
Torres 55 Torres 73 Kuyt 90+2 |
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| Bookings: Dunne 86 |
Bookings: Arbeloa 90+6 |
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| Sent off: Zabaleta 67 |
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| Portsmouth | 2-1 (HT 1-0) |
Stoke |
| Crouch 25 Defoe 51 |
Fuller 48 | |
| Bookings: Olofinjana 22 Simonsen 66 Am Faye 77 |
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| Tottenham | 0-1 (HT 0-1) |
Hull |
| Geovanni 9 | ||
| Bookings: Jenas 34 Lennon 73 Bent 81 Campbell 88 |
Bookings: Ashbee 21 Boateng 38 |
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| West Ham | 1-3 (HT 0-2) |
Bolton |
| Cole 69 | Davies 30 Cahill 34 Taylor 86 |
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| Bookings: Noble 5 Faubert 52 Bellamy 88 Parker 89 |
Bookings: Nolan 60 Taylor 86 O’Brien 90 |
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Saturday, 04 October 2008
| Blackburn | 0-2 (HT 0-1) |
Man Utd |
| Brown 31 Rooney 64 |
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| Bookings: Pedersen 32 Samba 85 |
Bookings: Fletcher 71 |
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| Sunderland | 1-1 (HT 0-0) |
Arsenal |
| Leadbitter 86 | Fabregas 90+3 | |
| Bookings: Whitehead 41 Richardson 65 Yorke 73 |
Bookings: Clichy 39 Toure 61 Bendtner 90 Adebayor 90+4 Song Billong 78 |
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| West Brom | 1-0 (HT 0-0) |
Fulham |
| Bednar 61 | ||
| Bookings: Olsson 15 Borja Valero 35 |
Bookings: Andreasen 90+2 |
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| Wigan | 0-1 (HT 0-0) |
Middlesbrough |
| Aliadiere 89 | ||
| Bookings: Zaki 37 Cattermole 39 Scharner 57 |
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