English Premier League Results – Saturday 5th November

This Saturdays English Premier League action was full of the typical intrigue and excitement which football fans have come to expect from the Premier League. We will kick off our English Premier League results recap with the lunchtime Kick Off at St James Park.

English Premier leagueNewcastle knew a win over Everton would put them up to 2nd in the English Premier League table and that is exactly what Newcastle did. The game was decided in the first half thanks to a Johnny Heitinga own goal and a fantastic 25 yard strike from Ryan Taylor. Jack Rodwell scored a header in first half stoppage time to give the Toffees hope at the half time break.

Newcastle would do enough to see out the second half and survived a second half penalty shout when Dan Gosling appear to handle in the box. The win put them to second in the table before Man Utd Kicked off at 3.

Man Utd were playing Sunderland at Old Trafford where they were celebrating Alex Ferguson’s 25th Anniversary of being in charge of Man Utd. The performance from United was a cagey one but United got the victory thanks to a Wes Brown own goal in first half stoppage time.

United moved to within 2 points of English Premier League leaders Man City who Play QPR at Loftus Road later on this evening.

English Premier League – Arsenals good form continues

In more English Premier league Results Arsenal continued their good run of form with a 3 nil win over West Brom at the Emirates. Van Persie & Vermaelan gave Arsenal the 2 nil lead at half time & summer signing Mikel Arteta completed the scoreline in the 74th minute. The win took Arsenal up to 7th in the English Premier League standings.

Swansea got the shock result of the Barclays English Premier League this weekend when they held Liverpool to a goalless draw at Anfield. Both teams had multiple chances to get the 3 points and Swansea will be thankful to goalie Michel Vorm who made a string of vital saves.

In the 2 other English Premier League matches Chelsea secured a scrappy win against Blackburn with a 1 nil win courtesy of a Frank Lampard strike & Villa came from behind to defeat Norwich 3-2 at Villa Park.

If you are looking for some English Premier League live action Man City are just kicking off against QPR right now.

Our star player so far this weekend is Aston Villas Darren Bent who scored 2 goals who you will wish was in your English Premier League fantasy team.

Well that concludes our round up of Saturdays English Premier League results and be sure to check out the English Premier League highlights over the weekend.