As the grounds across fell silent in honour of our fallen soldiers throughout the years, the Premiership tried its hardest to give a Saturday worth of remembrance. The lunch-time game was between Aston Villa and Manchester United, the first half consisted of Berbatov missing another sitter in the opening exchanges with Villa growing into the half but neither team really created any meaningful chances. The second half was much better in comparison with both teams playing more attacking and Villa were very much on the front foot. They hit the cross bar and post in quick succession before a quick break saw Ashley Young brought down by Brown in the penalty area and was awarded the spot kick, Young converted it and Villa were finally ahead after 72 minutes. As Sir Alex Ferguson rung the changes, he may have regretted it at first when one of the subs Macheda gave the ball away cheaply in the Villa half. This resulted in another quick break by the youthful Villa and Albrighton was on hand to double Villa's lead four minutes after the penalty. With their unbeaten run looking in tatters United finally got themselves going and Macheda atoned for his error with a beautiful top corner goal with nine minutes left to play. With the youngsters becoming anxious as United pressed for an equaliser, United were getting themselves a couple of corners. The second corner didn't pose any threat initially but Nani kept the ball alive by swinging a cross back in and it was met by Vidic who scored the equaliser to keep United's unbeaten run in tact.
After a couple of poor results in the league recently, Tottenham came back into form with a good win over Blackburn. Gareth Bale returned to lethal goal scoring fashion when he opened the scoring after sixteen minutes. Pavlyuchenko made it 2-0 three minutes before half-time. Crouch then virtually ended the game after 69 minutes before Bale scored his second six minutes later. Blackburn had a little resurgence which resulted in captain Nelsen scoring with ten minutes left and Gael Givet grabbing a second in second half injury time.
There were another five goals at Molineux as Wolves entertained Bolton. Although Wolves got off to the worst possible start when Richard Stearman scored an own goal in the very first minute. There were then three goals in seven minutes as Elmander made it 2-0 after 62 minutes before Holden scored Bolton's third five minutes later. Wolves pulled one back two minutes later thanks to Kevin Foley before Wolves were back in the game when substitute Steven Fletcher scored after 77 minutes. Bolton hung onto the win however to leave Wolves in the relegation zone.
A seventieth minute goal from Victor Moses was enough for Wigan to beat West Brom at the DW Stadium. However the other three three o'clock kick-offs were goalless. Newcastle drew with Fulham, Ian Holloway made another eleven changes to his team against West Ham which couldn't bring a goal and Manchester City were booed off after another goalless draw, this time against Birmingham.
The tea time kick-off saw Liverpool's recent run of form end away to Stoke. Ricardo Fuller put Stoke ahead eleven minutes into the second half before there was an entertaining bout of second half injury time. Firstly Kenwyne Jones secured all three points after Gerrard gave the ball away then Lucas became the only player in the league to be sent off yesterday after receiving a second yellow card.
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