As 7 out of the 10 matches were "iced-off" in England , there were only matches between Birmingham Vs Manchester United , Arsenal Vs Everton and Manchester City Vs BlackBurn Rovers.
In the First of the three matches of the week , at Emirates Everton's Osman scored in the 12th min to give the visitors an early lead over the gunners.But in the 28th min , Denilson's shot took a deflection and left USA goal-keeper Howard helpless .
In the 81st min , Australian international Cahill linked-up with Pienaar who chipped the ball over Almunia , which showed the silhouette of three points for Everton Manager.
But in the 93rd min , Diaby dribbled the ball near the edge of the box before passing the ball to Rosicky , whose shot took a wicked deflection of the Everton Defender Neill and their silhouette of three points evaporated.
Final score was Arsenal 2-2 Everton.....
Birmingham City has become hard nutshell for the other clubs as they have not lost from last 8 matches winning 6 of them . Champions visited Birmingham in hope to go over Chelsea to top the table at least for one week.
United kept the major portion of the possession from the start of the game. Valencia Produced a lovely pass to Rooney who controlled it beautifully with great first-touch and his second touch forced a great save from Birmingham keeper Hart.
In the 39th min , Jerome scored with the help of a corner-kick to take the lead over the champions.
In the 63rd min , Evra's cross ended in the back of the net with Birmingham's Dann's last touch to equalise the score-line.
After that Birmingham kept good pressure on the visitors and forced couple of saves from Kuszczak .
In the 84th min , Fletcher was sent-off for the second bookable offence .
Final score was Birmingham City 1-1 Manchester United.....
While their city rivals are having rough time , Manchester City rode on a high-wave called Tevez - who scored his 12th league goal of the season by registering his first hat-trick for the club.
As result of this win City climbed to the fourth spot in the table.
Match ended Manchester city 4-1 BlackBurn.....
TEVEZ'S HAT-TRICK:
Match Day 9th and 11th Jan
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PRAMOD Y S
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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