Complete Premiership Round-Up

Saturday, October 15

Chelsea 5 Bolton Wanderers 1
Liverpool 1 Blackburn Rovers 0
Sunderland 1 Manchester United 3
Tottenham Hotspur 2 Everton 0
West Bromwich Albion 2Arsenal 1
Wigan Athletic 1 Newcastle United 0

Match Reports:

Chelsea 5-1 Bolton:
Chelsea made it 9 wins in 9 games with an emphatic second half perfomance at Stamford Bridge.

Despite an early Stelios Giannakopoulos strike for Sam Allardyce's men, The Blues kept their perfect start to the new season on course with five unanswered goals after the break.

Four goals in the space of seven second half minutes saw Jose Mourinho's on their way to victory at Stamford Bridge - with Didier Drogba and Frank Lampard each getting two goals.

Eider Gudjohnsen finished off the scoring with over a quarter of an hour to go as Bolton finished off the match with 10 men after defender Ricardo Gardner got sent off for delibarate handball.

Liverpool 1-0 Blackburn
Rovers were reduced to 10 men on 34 minutes when Zurab Khizanishvili was controversially red-carded for a professional foul.

Blackburn defended superbly but Djibril Cisse finally broke their dogged resistance 15 minutes from time when he smashed home a 30-yard free-kick.

Sunderland 1-3 Man Utd
United were second best for much of the first half but broke away to take the lead five minutes before half-time, Wayne Rooney netting after being unselfishly set up by Park.

Ruud Van Nistelrooy was denied by a superb Kelvin Davis save before Rooney set him up for the second 14 minutes from the end.

Stephen Elliott's screamer gave the Black Cats hope just six minutes later. American-born Italian Guiseppe Rossi came on as sub to wrap the game up for United three minutes from time.

Tottenham 2-0 Everton
Spurs continued their good start to the season with a home win against struggling Everton.

Tottenham just about shaded the first half with most of the possesion and with a few chances; Dawson with two headers saved and cleared off the line. The only bright spark for Everton was McFadden's shot, well saved by Paul Robinson.

The second half started with Spurs on the front-foot, with most of the possesion yet again. Their dominant passing game was rewarded when Jermaine Jenas' excellent cross was brilliantly headed in by Egyptian striker Mido.

Jenas capped off a fine perfomance with a great near-post header after some great wing-play by Jermain Defoe.

Everton continued to battle for balls and Duncan Ferguson's introduction ruffled a few feathers in the spurs defence as his header was exceptionally saved by Robinson at point-blank range. Beattie also came close with a header when he came on but Spurs won diservedly.

West Brom 2-1 Arsenal
West Brom came from behind to win for the first time in the Premiership agains a weakened by injuries Arsenal side.

Swiss defender Philippe Senderos escaped his marker at a corner to volley the Gunners in front on 17 minutes.

Kanu blasted his first goal since February to level against his former club seven minutes before the break.

Arsenal's injury woes grew ahead of their Champions League clash with Sparta Prague when Freddie Ljungberg limped off with a hamstring problem.

And on the pitch Darren Carter hammered an unstoppable shot to blast the Baggies winner 14 minutes from time.

Arsenal are now in 8th position and 14 points behind leaders Chelsea, not Wenger's desired start to the season im sure...

Wigan 1-0 Newcastle
The pressure on Graeme Souness' shoulders must be weakening his spine after yet another defeat, this time at the hands of newly-promomoted Wigan Athletic.

Jason Roberts netted the winner for Wigan five minutes before the break as he squeezed the ball home from a narrow angle.

Victory in the early kick-off took the Latics second in the table for a couple of hours.