Premier League New Years Eve Results

Premier League New years Results – 31/12/2011

Premier League New YearsThe Barclays Premier League New years games saw 8 matches take place to see out the end of 2011 and their was on major shock in the Premier League New years results.

We Begin our look at the the Premier League New years fixtures at Old Trafford where struggling Blackburn took on Man Utd and it would be the visitors who would leave happy. Blackburn took the lead via a Yakubu penalty & doubled there advantage early in the second had when Yakubu capitalised on a Michael Carrick error.

Man Utd fought back to 2-2 when Dimitar Berbatov scored twice in 10 minutes but Blackburn would secure the 3 points in the 80th minute when Grant Hadley nodded in for the 3-2 win.

Chelsea’s hope of challenging for the Premier League fell apart on the days Premier League New years eve action when they lost 3-1 at home to Aston Villa. Chelsea took the lead through a Drogba penalty after he was fouled by Richard Dunne.

Villa responded through Stephen Ireland just 5 minutes later and then scored twice in the final 10 minutes to win 3-1 with goals from Stiliyan Petrov & Darren Bent. Chelsea now sit 11 points behind Premier League leaders Man City and appear to be out of the running for the title.

Premier League New Years Eve – RVP falls one goal short of tying Premier league record

A Robin Van Persie strike got Arsenal a win on the Barclays Premier League New years action when he scored on the hour mark.  Van Persie’s goal was his 35th goal in the Barclays Premier League in 2011 which is 1 shy of Alna Shearers record.

All the other games on the Premier League New years schedule ended in draws, Wolves picked up a point against Bolton in a 1-1 draw & Norwich & Fulham shared the same scoreline after a late Simeon Jackson goal gave Norwich a point.

Wigan scored a late penalty to tie their game with Stoke at the Britannia Stadium at 2-2 and Scott Sinclair got his 5th goal of the season to rescue at point for Swansea against Tottenham.

Well that wraps up our look at the Barclays Premier League New Years results and we will keep you up to date on the Premier league New Years day games.

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