City wins to stay on top
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October 31, 2011, Monday
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MANCHESTER City stayed top of the Premier League by beating Wolverhampton Wanderers 3-1.
City remained five points clear of Manchester United and moved nine clear of third-placed Chelsea and fourth-placed Newcastle United with second-half goals from Edin Dzeko, Aleksandar Kolarov and Adam Johnson at the Etihad Stadium.
Wolves' goal came from a Stephen Hunt penalty after City skipper Vincent Kompany was sent off but it could not stop them slumping to a second defeat by City in four days after losing 2-5 at home in a League Cup match on Wednesday.
Manchester United bounced back from its 1-6 mauling by City last weekend with a 1-0 victory at Everton where Javier Hernandez scored the first-half winner.
"It's an important result to come away from home and win," United manager Alex Ferguson said.
"Everton is never an easy game and they put everything they could into the game. First half we played some fantastic football and scored a good goal. Hernandez is fantastic in the box. It's a good result and we worked hard for it."
Those results left City top with 28 points from 10 games, followed by United (23), and Chelsea (19).
Liverpool beat West Bromwich Albion 2-0 to move into fifth place on 18 points.
Seventh defeat
Wigan Athletic suffered a seventh successive league defeat, a 0-2 loss at home to Fulham, and slipped to the bottom of the table, while fellow struggler Blackburn Rovers drew 3-3 at Norwich City which came back from 1-3 down and equalized with a Grant Holt penalty with the last kick of the game.
The eight matches produced 31 goals with eight of them coming in an astonishing match at Stamford Bridge. Arsenal won 5-3 with a hat-trick from skipper Van Persie, including two in the last seven minutes, and one each from Andre Santos and Theo Walcott.
Chelsea led twice with goals from Frank Lampard and John Terry but although it then came back to equalize with an 80th-minute goal from Juan Mata, it went on to concede five at home for the first time in a league match since Liverpool beat it 5-2 in 1989.
The stunning victory was Arsene Wenger's 500th since he became Arsenal manager in 1996, Arsenal's first away win in the league this season and Chelsea's first home defeat as the English top-flight continues to dish out goals galore.
Liverpool, which had won eight of its previous nine league visits to West Brom since 1983, made that nine out of 10 with a Charlie Adam penalty and a second from Andy Carroll giving it a well-deserved victory over its former manager Roy Hodgson.
In other action, Swansea City beat Bolton Wanderers 3-1 and Sunderland drew 2-2 with Aston Villa.
City remained five points clear of Manchester United and moved nine clear of third-placed Chelsea and fourth-placed Newcastle United with second-half goals from Edin Dzeko, Aleksandar Kolarov and Adam Johnson at the Etihad Stadium.
Wolves' goal came from a Stephen Hunt penalty after City skipper Vincent Kompany was sent off but it could not stop them slumping to a second defeat by City in four days after losing 2-5 at home in a League Cup match on Wednesday.
Manchester United bounced back from its 1-6 mauling by City last weekend with a 1-0 victory at Everton where Javier Hernandez scored the first-half winner.
"It's an important result to come away from home and win," United manager Alex Ferguson said.
"Everton is never an easy game and they put everything they could into the game. First half we played some fantastic football and scored a good goal. Hernandez is fantastic in the box. It's a good result and we worked hard for it."
Those results left City top with 28 points from 10 games, followed by United (23), and Chelsea (19).
Liverpool beat West Bromwich Albion 2-0 to move into fifth place on 18 points.
Seventh defeat
Wigan Athletic suffered a seventh successive league defeat, a 0-2 loss at home to Fulham, and slipped to the bottom of the table, while fellow struggler Blackburn Rovers drew 3-3 at Norwich City which came back from 1-3 down and equalized with a Grant Holt penalty with the last kick of the game.
The eight matches produced 31 goals with eight of them coming in an astonishing match at Stamford Bridge. Arsenal won 5-3 with a hat-trick from skipper Van Persie, including two in the last seven minutes, and one each from Andre Santos and Theo Walcott.
Chelsea led twice with goals from Frank Lampard and John Terry but although it then came back to equalize with an 80th-minute goal from Juan Mata, it went on to concede five at home for the first time in a league match since Liverpool beat it 5-2 in 1989.
The stunning victory was Arsene Wenger's 500th since he became Arsenal manager in 1996, Arsenal's first away win in the league this season and Chelsea's first home defeat as the English top-flight continues to dish out goals galore.
Liverpool, which had won eight of its previous nine league visits to West Brom since 1983, made that nine out of 10 with a Charlie Adam penalty and a second from Andy Carroll giving it a well-deserved victory over its former manager Roy Hodgson.
In other action, Swansea City beat Bolton Wanderers 3-1 and Sunderland drew 2-2 with Aston Villa.
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