Super Sunday was exactly that today with four matches to wet the appetite. Manchester United travelled to Newcastle where they were looking to recover from their defeat to Tottenham. Their goals came from the most unlikely of sources as they took full advantage of sloppy defending.
The visitors would take the lead after just eight minutes when a Robin Van Persie corner was headed home by Jonny Evans for his second ever United goal. It was the same sort of scenario on the quarter of an hour mark when Patrice Evra was on hand to head a Wayne Rooney corner past Steve Harper, scoring his second goal in three and a half years. Within that space of time Danny Welbeck had two chances to score but missed both of them.
Newcastle had a penalty shout in the first half turned down when Evra was clearly pulling a shirt. Their best chance of the game came in the second period when David De Gea saved a shot onto the post before Papiss Cisse headed the ball back with the Spaniard just clearing it off of the line, although it was extremely touch and go whether the ball had crossed the line or not. The game was then won in sublime fashion when Tom Cleverley curled a shot into the top corner 19-minutes from the end, putting United back into second place.
Tottenham move up to fifth with a victory over Aston Villa at White Hart Lane. Spurs were the better side in the first half without really testing Brad Guzan. But Villa came back in the second half and created a few chances until Tottenham took the lead 13-minutes after the restart when a wayward Jermain Defoe shot hit off Steven Caulker to go into the net. The win was then wrapped up on 67-minutes when Aaron Lennon fired the ball into the bottom corner.
Two late goals saw Southampton go 2-1 behind after initially taking the lead before snatching a point away from Fulham. The hosts took an early lead when Jose Fonte scored with a looping shoulder from a corner, his first in the Premiership. They probably should have had a second before half-time after they had hit the post before having a goal ruled out when Mark Schwarzer seemingly fell over.
Fulham would hit the post in the second half before Southampton gave their guests an equaliser. A John Arne Riise strike was going wide before Jos Hooiveld diverted it home to score his second own goal of the season on 70-minutes. Fulham then took the lead with three minutes remaining when substitute Kieron Richardson scored his first Fulham goal courtesy of a pull back to him. But the win was snatched away when Jose Fonte managed to head a free-kick home in injury time.
The other game of the day saw Liverpool and Stoke play out a goalless draw. Robert Huth was perhaps lucky to stay on the pitch early on after looking to stand on Luis Suarez. Pepe Reina once again had an unstable game and was lucky not to have conceded. Liverpool did carve openings throughout the game but often failed to put Thomasz Sorensen to the test but Raheem Sterling did hit the post in the second half.
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