Premiership weekend roundup - Gameweek 15

It was an exciting weekend in the premiership. I'll start at the bottom of the table. Portsmouth picked up three important points against Burnley. Pompey got a good performance to push them to a clean sheet and a victory despite a Dindane penalty miss, which was one of 4 missed penalties this weekend in England's top flight. This win brings Pompey within 4 points of safety, though still at the bottom of the table, and keeps Burnley in the relegation fight.
A relegation six pointer took place at Molineux. Wolves grabbed three points and jumped over their competition, Bolton, in the bottom three to move to 18th place with a dubious set-piece header that was offside according to the video replay and a stupendous strike from Nenad Milijas before Johan Elmander could pull o9ne back for Bolton. This drops Bolton to 19th and puts even more pressure on Gary Megson.
At the DW stadium, Wigan took on Birmingham. Birmingham pulled through it with a 2-3 victory on two goals from Swede Sebastian Larsson and Christian Benitez. Wigan got their two from N'Zogbia and Gomez, but were just not enough to beat the Blues.
Fullham hosted Sunderland at Craven Cottage. An early goal from Bobby Zamora was enough to hold off a currently impotent Sunderland attack and get three points for Fullham bringing them to eighth and allowing Sunderland to drop to 10th.
Everton Hosted 3rd place Tottenham and managed a thriller to grab a point from what was looking like a certain defeat. Spurs grabbed goals in the second half from Defoe and Dawson but gave up two in the last 15 to Saha and Cahill before Defoe missed a penalty which would have saved the day for Spurs. Tim Howard was the hero with that Penalty save and was good all day behind a back four consisting of all full backs once Joseph Yobo was forced off due to injury.
Arsenal hosted Stoke at the Emirates and eased to a victory over a Stoke team that did not look good in defense without Ryan Shawcross. It could have been much worse as Sorenson had another great game in goal for Stoke City including a penalty stop on a poorly taken penalty by Cesc Fabregas. Arshavin had one of the two and young Gunner Aaron Ramsey had the other.
Aston Villa hosted Hull City and came away with three points after three goals from Dunne, Milner and Carew. The news from this game was the injury of Jimmy Bullard. The man who has led the late resurgence for Hull landed awkwardly and hurt his knee and is waiting for the results of a scan today to see how bad it is.
Liverpool traveled to Blackburn for a nil nil draw in which Rafa Benitez again left Alberto Aquilani on the bench, leaving a large part of the Liverpool faithfuls asking why.
Manchester United went to West Ham and were very good, taking home a 4-0 victory. A late first half goal from Paul Scholes seemed to secure the game as United romped to three more in the second half from Gibson, Valencia and Rooney as United played with a makeshift back four with Ferdinand, Vidic, Evans, Neville, O'Shea and Rafael all out injured. Today it was announced that Evans and O'Shea are out until atleast January leaving United thin at the back.
Finally, Saturday saw an exciting match at the Eastlands as top four challanger Manchester City managed an exciting win against a poor looking Chelsea in horrible weather. All three of the games goals were scored by Man City as Adebayor accidently got an early own goal before making up for it by scoring at the other end a half an hour later. Tevez scored a great free kick goal on a needless foul from Carvalho just outside the Chelsea penalty area in the second half. Chelsea got a late penalty but Lampard stepped up and missed. The penalty has brought up a bit of questioning about keepers not staying on their line as Shay Given does not appear to stay on his line on the Penalty.