HAMMERS Climb out of Drop Zone
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SPORTS SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2014 Soccer results/standings English Premier League Scottish Cup Hammers climb Aston Villa 0 West Ham 2 (Nolan 46, 48); Chelsea Albion 2 (McMillan 24-og, Phillips 67) 3 (Hazard 27, 34, 63-pen) Newcastle 0; Crystal Stenhousemuir 0; Alloa 0 Dumbarton 1 Palace 3 (Ince 15, Ledley 27, Chamakh 69-pen) (Nish 31); Celtic 1 (Stokes 9) Aberdeen 2 West Brom 1 (Thievy 46); Liverpool 5 (Skrtel 1, (Anderson 38, Pawlett 50); Forfar 0 St 10, Sterling 16, 52, Sturridge 20) Arsenal 1 Johnstone 4 (May 27, Wright 42, O’Halloran out of drop zone (Arteta 69-pen); Norwich 0 Manchester City 0; 64, Dunne 80); Hibernian 2 (Stanton 14, Southampton 2 (Lambert 6, Davis 41) Stoke 2 Nelson 45) Raith 3 (Moon 6, Hill 45, (Odemwingie 38, Crouch 44); Sunderland 0 Hull Anderson 63); Stranraer 2 (Grehan 45-pen, 2 (Long 16, Jelavic 62); Swansea 3 (Routledge Longworth 72) Inverness CT 2 (Doran 40, 47, Dyer 79, Bony 85) Cardiff 0. McKay 74). Aston Villa 0 Playing today Playing today Manchester United v Fulham, Tottenham v Dundee United v St Mirren Everton German League West Ham 2 English Football League VfL Wolfsburg 3 (Rodriguez 59-pen, Dost Championship 66, Luiz Gustavo 75) Mainz 05 0; Werder Barnsley 2 Ipswich 2; Blackpool 1 Bremen 1 (Aycicek 89) Borussia Dortmund 5 BIRMINGHAM: West Ham climbed out of the Nottingham Forest 1; Bolton 2 Bournemouth (Lewandowski 26, 85, Mkhitaryan 41, 62, Premier League relegation zone as Kevin Nolan’s 2; Brighton 1 Doncaster 0; Burnley 3 Millwall 1; Friedrich 48); Nuremberg 0 Bayern Munich 2 quick-fire double earned a 2-0 win at Aston Villa Charlton 0 Birmingham 2; Huddersfield 1 (Mandzukic 18, Lahm 49); Freiburg 1 yesterday. Wigan 0; Leicester 2 Watford 2; Middlesbrough (Schmid 68) Hoffenheim 1 (Modeste 85); Nolan struck twice in the space of two min- 0 Blackburn 0;Reading 0 Sheffield Wednesday Eintracht Frankfurt 3 (Flum 7, Maier 43, utes just after half-time and that was enough to 2; Yeovil 1 Leeds 2. Aigner 44) Eintracht Braunschweig 0. lift Sam Allardyce’s side into 14th place. The Hammers’ second consecutive victory Division One Playing today was the perfect end to a turbulent week which Bradford 3 Crewe 3; Carlisle 1 Gillingham 2; VfB Stuttgart v Augsburg, Schalke v was marred by the club’s two unsuccessful Leyton Orient 1 Peterborough 2; Notts County Hanover 96. attempts to overturn Andy Carroll’s three-match 3 Coventry 0; Oldham 1 Bristol City 1; Port Vale ban following his red card in last weekend’s win 2 Swindon 3; Sheffield Utd 2 Shrewsbury 0; Scottish Football League over Swansea. Tranmere 1 Preston 2; Walsall 0 Milton Keynes Championship Carlton Cole came in for Carroll and West Dons 3. Dundee 1 Hamilton 0; Queen of the Ham started brightly, with former Villa winger South 2 Falkirk 0. Stewart Downing fizzing a shot wide of Brad Division Two Guzan’s goal. AFC Wimbledon 0 Rochdale 3; Bristol Division One Downing then missed a golden opportunity Rovers 1 Oxford 1; Dagenham and Redbridge Brechin 3 East Fife 0. to break the deadlock midway through the first 0 Hartlepool 2; Exeter 1 Portsmouth 1; BIRMINGHAM: Aston Villa’s Christian Benteke executes an overhead kick during the English half. Matt Jarvis sent over a low cross from the Mansfield 2 Southend 1; Morecambe 0 Burton Division Two Premier League match against West Ham at Villa Park. — AP left and Downing appeared certain to score from 1; Northampton 0 Plymouth 2; Scunthorpe 1 Annan Athletic 1 Montrose 0; Berwick 1 close-range, but somehow contrived to miss his time, but it was Nolan who changed the course when Fabian Delph carelessly dwelt on the ball Chesterfield 1; Wycombe 0 Accrington 0; York Queen’s Park 0; East Stirling 3 Elgin City 0; kick and let the ball run between his legs. of the match in a stunning spell just after the on the edge of the area, allowing Nolan to seize 0 Cheltenham 0. Stirling 1 Peterhead 2. Moments later, the Hammers created another restart. possession and fire past Guzan for his sixth goal glorious chance when Jarvis sprang the Villa off- In the 46th minute, Downing surged away of the season. Villa substitute Marc Albrighton English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals side trap, only to drag his shot wide under pres- from Ryan Bertrand and drove in a low cross floated a cross for Christian Benteke but the against, points): sure from Nathan Baker. towards Nolan, who turned it home with an striker poked wide as the hosts tried to respond. Chelsea 25 17 5 3 47 20 56 Rangers 23 22 1 0 76 11 67 Villa were back on the attack just before the improvised backheel. Albrighton added more thrust to Villa’s attack Arsenal 25 17 4 4 48 26 55 Dunfermline 23 14 2 7 50 39 44 break and Ashley Westwood slammed his right- Just two minutes later Nolan, who also scored and Benteke flicked an effort against the cross- Man City 25 17 3 5 68 27 54 Ayr 23 10 6 7 40 41 36 foot volley just wide of Adrian’s far post from the twice in the win against Swansea last weekend, bar from the winger’s teasing cross. Liverpool 25 15 5 5 63 30 50 Stranraer 21 10 5 6 39 29 35 edge of the area. struck again to put the visitors in complete con- Although Benteke went close again in the Everton 24 12 9 3 37 25 45 Brechin 24 9 4 11 40 46 31 Allardyce sent on Italy forward Marco trol. closing moments, West Ham held firm to secure Tottenham 24 13 5 6 31 32 44 S’housemuir 23 7 6 10 32 45 27 Man Utd 24 12 4 8 39 29 40 Forfar 22 7 5 10 33 32 26 Borriello, on loan from Roma, for Cole at half- This time the Hammers midfielder pounced their third successive clean-sheet. — AFP Newcastle 25 11 4 10 32 34 37 East Fife 23 7 2 14 20 45 23 Southampton 25 9 9 7 36 29 36 Arbroath 23 5 2 16 32 52 17 Swansea 25 7 6 12 32 35 27 Airdrie 23 4 5 14 25 47 17 Hull 25 7 6 12 25 30 27 Crouch Aston Villa 25 7 6 12 27 36 27 Division Two Stoke 25 6 8 11 26 40 26 Peterhead 23 13 6 4 46 28 45 Hull end winless run C Palace 25 8 2 15 18 34 26 Annan 22 11 5 6 42 31 38 rescues Stoke West Ham 25 6 7 12 26 33 25 Clyde 23 11 5 7 30 29 38 Norwich 25 6 7 12 19 37 25 Stirling 24 9 7 8 33 31 34 Manchester United defender Brown was sent off for a Sunderland 25 6 6 13 25 38 24 Berwick 24 9 6 9 40 31 33 professional foul on Long bringing the number of red West Brom 25 4 11 10 29 37 23 Stirling 23 9 6 8 34 36 33 Sunderland 0 cards in matches between the two sides to seven in the Cardiff 25 5 6 14 19 44 21 Albion 23 8 7 8 30 30 31 Southampton 2 Fulham 24 6 1 17 22 53 19 Montrose 24 7 7 10 31 35 28 last eight meetings. Sunderland manager Gus Poyet Elgin 23 6 6 11 38 44 24 reacted by removing Italian striker Fabio Borini and English Football League Queen’s Park 23 3 5 15 19 48 14 replacing him with defender Santiago Vergini but it Championship didn’t prevent the visitors from taking the lead shortly Leicester 30 21 4 5 54 30 67 German Bundesliga Stoke 2 Hull 2 afterwards. It was appropriately Long who punished Burnley 29 15 11 3 45 24 56 Bayern Munich 20 18 2 0 53 9 56 QPR 28 16 8 4 36 20 56 Leverkusen 20 14 1 5 37 20 43 them as the Ireland international helped on Jake Derby 29 15 7 7 57 40 52 Dortmund 20 12 3 5 47 24 39 Livermore’s shot with a sharp header to beat Vito Nottingham 29 13 12 4 47 30 51 Schalke 04 19 10 4 5 37 29 34 SUNDERLAND: Steve Bruce made a winning return to Mannone in the 16th minute. Hull piled on the pressure Reading 30 13 8 9 47 35 47 M’gladbach 20 10 3 7 36 25 33 LONDON: A goal by Peter Crouch against one Sunderland yesterday as his side Hull ended a winless seeking to put the game to bed but saw the woodwork Ipswich 30 11 11 8 43 34 44 Wolfsburg 20 10 3 7 33 24 33 of his former teams earned Stoke just their sev- run of five matches with a 2-0 win over the hosts who defy them twice, first former Everton striker Jelavic’s Brighton 29 11 10 8 31 25 43 Mainz 05 20 9 3 8 29 35 30 enth point away from home from this season as Blackburn 30 11 10 9 37 35 43 Hertha Berlin 19 8 4 7 28 24 28 played almost the whole match with only 10 men. header coming back off the bar and then Long fired a Leeds 29 12 6 11 43 38 42 Augsburg 19 8 4 7 26 28 28 they secured a creditable 2-2 draw with Bruce-whose side had not won since demolishing cracking drive from outside the box beating Mannone Wigan 28 11 7 10 30 28 40 Hanover 96 19 7 3 9 29 33 24 Southampton at St Mary’s yesterday.