Liverpool - Wolves (3-0)
The first half was pretty exciting for both sides. It was a back and forth game of counter attacks keeping each side on their toes. When the second half came Liverpool looked like a completely different team. Their attacks fast and calculated and they really began to demoralize the Wolves side. Andy Carroll got his first Premier League goal since Oct. 29th delivered by a nice cross from Charlie Adam. Carroll expertly placed the cross in the far side of the net bring Liverpool up 1-0. Liverpool's second goal from Craig Bellamy was more of a goalie error than a good goal. While well placed, any keeper should have kept that out. With the way the Reds were playing it didn't seem to matter much because in the 78', Dirk Kuyt put the exclamation point on the brilliant overall performance for the Reds. Out shooting the wolves 24 - 6 Liverpool was definitely the better team in this clean sheet performance.
Tottenham - Wigan (3-1)
The red hot Spurs put together another great performance thanks to their Welsh winger, Gareth Bale. Bale netted himself two very nice goals completely dominating Wigan all game. Not only did the Spurs out shoot the Wigs 20 - 9, they completely out possessed them 62% - 38%. From start to finish Spurs completely ran the show never letting off the gas.However, one thing does worry Tottenham fans, which was the injury to (the very injury prone) Rafael Van Der Vaart as he walked slowly off the field at the half hour mark. Hopefully it isn't too serious and he is back training tomorrow.
Swansea - Chelsea (1-1)
I predicted the Swans were going to walk away with three points this game. And for 90 minutes it looked like I was right, until Chelsea caught themselves a lucky break in stoppage time of the second half with a deflection off of Neil Taylor from what looked to be a cross from Jose Bosingwa (also can someone please go attack him with a razor and shave that uni-brow off? I can't look at it anymore). Even though Chelsea had to play without John Terry, Frank Lampard, and Didier Drogba they still came out with a point. I didn't look that the whole game as the Swans were dominating the midfield and had a very nicely placed goal from Scott Sinclair. Tough break for the Welsh side, lets see them bounce back against Roy Hodgson's WBA.
Man City - Everton (0-1)
It's evident that City is really missing Balotelli and the Toure brothers. Even though they out possessed Everton 68% - 32% they just couldn't find a way to get themselves a goal. Manchester had some tough breaks with Samir Nasri's rocket shot which hit the top right corner of the net and controversial no-call decision for Phil Neville's handball. Everton found themselves up a goal when Darron Gibson was assisted by Landon Donovan and blasted a shot into the net against his former team.
Man United - Stoke City (2-0)
I didn't watch enough of this game to comment on it. I just know The Continental, Dimitar Berbatov, scored off a PK which is pretty cool.
Highlights from all of today's fixtures can be found here
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