Saturday, April 11, 2009

Premier League Football News

Tottenham Hotspur 1-0 West Ham United

Roman Pavlyuchenko scored the only goal of the match as Tottenham Hotspur defeated West Ham United.

Tottenham kept alive their hopes of European football thanks to Pavlyuchenko's winner at White Hart Lane.

Pavlyuchenko scored within nine minutes of coming off the bench, and his 14th of the season means the race for seventh place in the Barclays Premier League is hotting up.

A full match report will be available shortly.

Wigan Athletic 1-4 Arsenal

Four second-half goals handed Arsenal victory over Wigan Athletic at the JJB Stadium.

Arsenal launched a blistering fightback at the JJB Stadium to extend their unbeaten Barclays Premier League run to 18 matches.

Mido put Wigan ahead but that only prompted a furious backlash from the Gunners with all their goals coming in the second half.

Theo Walcott began the rout with Mikael Silvestre, Andrey Arshavin and Alexandre Song all adding to their tally.

A full match report will be available shortly.

Portsmouth 2-2 West Bromwich Albion

Portsmouth's Niko Kranjcar struck a superb free-kick to deny West Brom victory in the relegation showdown.

Younes Kaboul fired Pompey into a half-time lead at Fratton Park with a brilliant individual goal but Jonathan Greening and Chris Brunt hit back for West Brom after the interval.

Brunt produced a fine free-kick in the 62nd minute, but it was bettered at the other end three minutes later through Kranjcar.

An in-depth match report will appear shortly.

Chelsea 4-3 Bolton Wanderers

Chelsea kept title hopes alive but only after surviving a late comeback by Bolton Wanderers in a seven-goal thriller.

Two goals from Didier Drogba, a Frank Lampard penalty and Michael Ballack's first Barclays Premier League goal of the season put them in full control until Lampard and Drogba were substituted in the 65th minute at Stamford Bridge.

After that Bolton scored three goals in 11 minutes through Andrew O'Brien, Chris Basham and Matt Taylor to give Chelsea an almighty scare.

An in-depth match report will appear shortly.

Sunderland 1-2 Manchester United

Goals by Paul Scholes and Federico Macheda put Manchester United back on top of the Barclays Premier League.

Scholes headed the champions in front after 19 minutes, glancing in a Wayne Rooney cross.

Kenwyne Jones levelled for relegation-threatened Sunderland on 55 minutes but Supersub Macheda put United back in front, prodding home on 74 minutes, just 45 seconds after coming off the bench.

The win lifted Sir Alex Ferguson's men back above Liverpool and left the Black Cats deep in trouble.

A full match report will be available shortly.

Middlesbrough 3-1 Hull City

Middlesbrough secured only their second win in 20 matches to boost their survival hopes.

Tuncay Sanli fired Boro in front after only three minutes, slotting home from a tight angle after Matt Duke had saved from Afonso Alves.

But the visitors levelled just five minutes later when Manucho headed in a Nick Barmby cross.

However home-grown hero Matthew Bates stabbed home his first Boro goal from six yards on the half hour.

The Tigers threw everything forward but their former striker Marlon King sealed the points in the dying minutes after dispossessing former Boro favourite George Boateng.

A full match report will be available shortly.

Liverpool 4-0 Blackburn Rovers

Fernando Torres struck twice to put Liverpool on their way to a comprehensive victory.

Liverpool club captain Steven Gerrard was left on the bench as Liverpool cruised to a victory that keeps their title hopes alive.

They wiped away the bitter memory of the midweek Champions League defeat by Chelsea, thanks to a couple of top-line goals from Fernando Torres, taking his total for the season to 14.

With the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster on Wednesday, the match was preceded by a minute's silence.

And Blackburn Rovers' former Liverpool player, Stephen Warnock, carried a wreath onto the pitch and laid it on the turf in front of the Kop prior to kick-off.

The first Torres goal was a tremendous hooked volley after five minutes, the second a fine header from Xabi Alonso's free-kick.

And in the closing minutes Daniel Agger and substitute David Ngog wrapped up the points with further goals.

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