Everton 0-2 Liverpool: What better way to kick-off a afternoon's worth of football with a Merseyside derby. Much like last week, it was more feisty from the Everton players. it took twenty-three before we saw a red card, Rodwell lunged in on Suarez but did take the ball. Watching it live it did look like a sending off, which is what the referee can only deal with, because the rule states intent and Rodwell's studs were showing and he left the ground. Only on the slow-mo replay could we see that it maybe wasn't deserving of a red card. But things tend to even themselves out and Hibbert should have also been shown red for sliding right through Adam, not even an advantage was played. Liverpool were then awarded a penalty just before half-time when Jagielka came through the back of Suarez, Kuyt stepped up but the penalty was well saved by Howard. The deadlock was finally broken nineteen minutes from the end when Andy Carroll scored for only the second time in a game for Liverpool. A defensive error from Distin allowed Suarez to make it 2-0 eight minutes from time. For me, Everton need to sort out their discipline as they are flying into too many tackles and their fans were disgraceful as they were throwing bottles and all sorts at the Liverpool players.
Man United 2-0 Norwich: United remain unbeaten and top of the league with a hard fought victory over Norwich. The big news saw De Gea drop to bench, possibly for his newsworthy antics, meaning Lindegaard started in goal. Norwich had plenty of chances throughout the match and really should have converted some. But United held on and took the lead through Anderson after sixty-eight minutes via a header. Welbeck then wrapped things up coming off the substitutes bench and linking up with Park to make it 2-0 three minutes form the end.
Wolves 1-2 Newcastle: There was controversy throughout this game which unfortunately wasn't referee Mark Halsey's best nor his linesmen's. Ba continued his fantastic Premiership goalscoring record, heading from a corner after seventeen minutes to give Newcastle the lead. Wolves could have had a chance to equalise when O'Hara was fouled in the box, but Mark Halsey deemed it a free-kick just outside when it was clearly a penalty. Wolves did create many chances of their own so to solely blame the officials would be wrong, Krul produced a man of the match performance but Wolves were just not potent enough. Newcastle made it 2-0 when Gutierrez made a good run past the defence before beating Hennessey seven minutes before half-time. Wolves did pull a goal back two minutes from the end through Steven Fletcher and they should have equalised in injury time when the ball was bundled over the line. But the linesman, wearing a cap, disallowed it claiming that the ball had gone out of play before Jarvis headed it back across goal, but replays look to show the ball didn't go out of play and Wolves were unlucky again as Newcastle remain unbeaten.
Blackburn 0-4 Man City: City cut United's lead down to a single goal with a comprehensive victory over the struggling Blackburn. It did take eleven minutes into the second half before City finally broke the deadlock with Adam Johnson curling a beauty past Robinson. Balotelli then made it 2-0 just three minutes later, rewarding Mancini for picking him ahead of the disobedient Dzeko. To make it worse for Dzeko, Aguero came off in the first half due to a groin injury but Mancini replaced him with Nasri instead of Dzeko and the Frenchman made it 3-0 with seventeen minutes left, his first goal for City. Savic also scored his first Premiership goal three minutes from the end to finish the rout. It could be an interesting race to see who goes first, Carlos Tevez or Steve Kean.
Sunderland 2-2 West Brom: This game was all over before the half hour as West Brom squandered a two goal lead. Defensive mistakes allowed James Morrison to give the visitors the lead after just four minutes before Shane Long capitalised from another mistake just a minute later. Bendtner then made it 2-1 for Sunderland after twenty-four minutes before Ahmed Elmohamady equalised just two minutes later.
Aston Villa 2-0 Wigan: Villa beat Wigan for the first time in the Premiership at Villa Park to maintain their unbeaten run. Agbonlahor continued his good start to the season, scoring his fourth league goal after thirty-six minutes. There was a possibility of a Wigan penalty when Collins nudged Di Santo in the box, but it is questionable whether it was enough to make Di Santo go down and the penalty was correctly not given. Villa wrapped up the win with Darren Bent scoring a tap in two minutes after the hour mark.
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