BPL: Title race wide open; Wolves go down

Sunday's Premier League Results
Manchester United 4-4 Everton
Wolves 0-2 Manchester City
Liverpool 0-1 West Brom

Saturday's Premier League Results
Arsenal 0-0 Chelsea
QPR 1-0 Tottenham
Newcastle 3-0 Stoke
Blackburn 2-0 Norwich
Fulham 2-1 Wigan
Bolton 1-1 Swansea
Aston Villa 0-0 Sunderland

Manchester City closed the gap on Manchester United to just three points on Sunday after they beat Wolves 2-0 and United were held 4-4 by Everton.

Goals in each half at Molineux from Sergio Aguero and Samir Nasri sealed a routine triumph, which confirmed their rock-bottom opponents to relegation in the process.

Should Roberto Mancini's side now triumph in the Manchester derby on April 30, they will go top virtue of a better goal difference.

Earlier in the day, United threw away a two-goal lead in the final seven minutes as Everton salvaged an incredible point.

Behind to Nikica Jelavic's header, United twice established winning positions as Danny Welbeck and Nani sandwiched a Wayne Rooney double.

But Everton refused to surrender to what seemed like the inevitable defeat.

Marouane Fellaini had already offered a warning before Rooney struck the 180th goal of his United career and 33rd of the season, just one short of his highest haul.

But when Jelavic grabbed another, the hosts allowed Steven Pienaar far too much space inside the United box a couple of minutes later and the midfielder duly buried the goal that could provide the turning point in a season filled with so many amazing results.

Throughout five heart-stopping minutes of injury time there was to be no final twist as Tim Howard tipped over Rio Ferdinand's goalbound effort.

Roy Hodgson enjoyed a successful first return to Liverpool as West Brom snatched their first win at Anfield since 1967 with Peter Odemwingie scoring the only goal of the game.

Liverpool dominated throughout but were made to pay for a host of missed opportunities - including hitting the woodwork twice - as the Baggies went in front from Glen Johnson's mistake 15 minutes from time.

Baggies manager Hodgson, sacked by Liverpool in January last year after a disappointing six months in charge, will no doubt have taken great satisfaction on his first return to his former club.

Liverpool have now won just one Barclays Premier League game at home in 2012 and scored only six goals in seven matches, and have dropped 27 points at Anfield in the current campaign.

Arsenal and Chelsea both wasted the chance to boost their Champions League claims after a 0-0 draw in Saturday's Barclays Premier League match at the Emirates Stadium.

The third-placed Gunners hit the woodwork twice through Robin van Persie and Laurent Koscielny, and Van Persie had other clear-cut chances, but could not get the better of Petr Cech.

Otherwise, Chelsea were arguably the better side, but were let down by their execution in the final third as they stayed sixth with just four games remaining.

Newcastle's Champions League hopes are on the rise as they claimed a convincing 3-0 victory over Stoke thanks to two goals from Yohan Cabaye.

Cabaye fired Newcastle in front after 14 minutes, knocking home the rebound after a Papiss Cisse header had come back off the crossbar.

The Frenchman then turned provider four minutes later when he produced a slide-rule pass to put Cisse in on goal, and he made no mistake with a left-foot finish.

Newcastle's third arrived after 57 minutes with Cabaye again at the heart of things, firing Demba Ba's assist into the bottom-right corner.

The win lifted the Magpies up to fourth spot above Tottenham, who missed the chance to return there as they fell to a 1-0 loss at QPR in the evening kick-off.

Adel Taarabt's 25th-minute goal fired Rangers three points clear of the relegation zone, although the former Spurs man was later sent off.

At the other end of the table, Blackburn's hopes of escaping the bottom three were given a welcome boost with a 2-0 win over Norwich at Ewood Park.

Ayegbeni Yakubu had hit the post for the home side after 38 minutes, but they were in front three minutes later with Morten Gamst Pedersen whipping in a cross for Mauro Formica to side-foot home at the far post.

Junior Hoilett added another four minutes into the second half, curling a shot into the top corner.

The win was not enough to lift Blackburn out of the drop zone, but they climbed above Bolton who were held to a 1-1 draw by Swansea.

The Swans took just six minutes to break the deadlock through Scott Sinclair, who unleashed a superb curling shot into the top corner.

But Bolton were level after 14 minutes when Chris Eagles provided a left-footed finish to Martin Petrov's cross.

Wigan's survival hopes suffered a setback with a 2-1 defeat against Fulham at Craven Cottage.

The Latics were looking to claim their fifth win in six Premier League matches - a run which had carried them away from the relegation zone - and Emerson Boyce smashed home from the edge of the area to give them a 58th-minute lead.

But Fulham were level a minute later with Pavel Pogrebnyak driving home a low shot, and a header from Philippe Senderos a minute from time snatched the points for the Cottagers.

Aston Villa and Sunderland had to settle for a goalless draw at Villa Park.

Nicklas Bendtner had the ball in the net for Sunderland after 75 minutes but was deemed to be in an offside position, although replays suggested otherwise.

Craig Gardner was then sent off for the Black Cats in the final minute but it was too late for Villa to take advantage.

POS		LP	CLUB	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	PTS
1		(1)	Manchester United	35	26	5	4	86	32	54	83
2		(2)	Manchester City	35	25	5	5	87	27	60	80
3		(3)	Arsenal	35	20	5	10	67	43	24	65
4		(4)	Newcastle United	34	18	8	8	53	42	11	62
5		(5)	Tottenham Hotspur	34	17	8	9	57	39	18	59
6		(6)	Chelsea	34	16	10	8	56	38	18	58
7		(7)	Everton	34	13	9	12	42	38	4	48
8		(8)	Liverpool	34	12	10	12	40	37	3	46
9		(9)	Fulham	34	12	10	12	45	44	1	46
10		(13)	West Bromwich Albion	35	13	6	16	41	47	-6	45
11		(10)	Sunderland	35	11	11	13	42	41	1	44
12		(11)	Swansea City	35	11	10	14	39	45	-6	43
13		(12)	Norwich City	35	11	10	14	47	60	-13	43
14		(14)	Stoke City	34	11	9	14	32	48	-16	42
15		(15)	Aston Villa	34	7	15	12	35	48	-13	36
16		(16)	Queens Park Rangers	35	9	7	19	39	57	-18	34
17		(17)	Wigan Athletic	35	8	10	17	34	60	-26	34
18		(18)	Blackburn	35	8	7	20	47	73	-26	31
19		(19)	Bolton	33	9	3	21	37	66	-29	30
20		(20)	Wolves	35	5	8	22	34	75	-41	23

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