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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2015 SPORTS Norwich pair Howson, Mbokani cut Villa adrift as Norwich City recorded a 2-0 victory at doomed. It was only Norwich’s second was also obliged to repel a header from claim a second goal early in the second Carrow Road yesterday. league win over Villa in 13 attempts and Jordan Ayew. half, steering wide after Brad Guzan spilt a Norwich City 2 Howson volleyed home in the 24th came a day after the appointment of for- But the visitors could not make their curling effort from Redmond. minute and Congolese striker Mbokani mer British shadow chancellor Ed Balls as territorial advantage count and they duly Garde sent on Adama Traore, Rudy struck three minutes from time as club chairman. Villa are now without a win fell behind, Howson volleying home Gestede and Jack Grealish in his despera- Norwich drew three points clear of the in a club-record 18 league matches, but crisply with his left foot after Bacuna par- tion for an equaliser, but instead Norwich Aston Villa 0 relegation zone. Villa manager Remi they could count themselves unfortunate tially cleared Nathan Redmond’s left-wing sealed victory when Mbokani nodded in Garde had warned his side that they had to be trailing at half-time, having started cross. Now Norwich had their tails up and Wes Hoolahan’s left-wing cross. to win one of their next two games, but the match on the front foot. Graham Dorrans went close to doubling Even a consolation goal proved NORWICH: Jonny Howson and ahead of Saturday’s trip to Sunderland, Leandro Bacuna saw an early 25-yard their lead when he shot wide after Villa beyond the beleaguered visitors, with Dieumerci Mbokani ushered Aston Villa a they are 11 points adrift of safety at the sighter parried unconvincingly by switched off at a corner. Rudd clawing away Ayew’s stoppage-time step closer to Premier League relegation foot of the table and look increasingly Norwich goalkeeper Declan Rudd, who Howson spurned a good chance to free-kick. —AFP Super-sub Son sinks 10-man Watford 2-1 Watford 1 Tottenham 2 WATFORD: South Korea forward Son Heung- min hit a dramatic late winner for Tottenham to earn a 2-1 victory over 10-man Watford yester- day. Son came off the substitutes’ bench to back- heel Kieran Trippier’s cross home in the 89th minute at Vicarage Road. LIVERPOOL: Everton’s Romelu Lukaku, background, goes on to score his side’s sec- Erik Lamela had pounced on a mistake to ond goal, during the English Premier League soccer match between Everton and open the scoring before Nigerian striker Odion Stoke City, at Goodison Park, in Liverpool, England, yesterday. — AP Ighalo scored for the sixth successive game to haul Watford level before half-time. Tottenham looked set to be left frustrated Late penalty gives Stoke despite having the numerical advantage for much of the second half. Nathan Ake had been win in seven-goal thriller red-carded for a high challenge on Lamela in the 63rd minute but instead of driving the visitors ing the ball on to leave Shaqiri with an easy fin- on it was Watford who appeared to rise to the ish for his first Stoke goal. challenge. Everton 3 Everton were only behind for six minutes, But Son had other ideas as he netted to though, as Ross Barkley and James McCarthy ensure Tottenham kept up their charge towards combined to set up Lukaku, who turned and the top of the Premier League. Tottenham man- fired past Jack Butland having been played on ager Mauricio Pochettino would have taken one by Erik Pieters. Stoke City 4 look at the video of Watford’s previous home Brendan Galloway shot just wide and WATFORD: Tottenham Hotspur’s South Korean striker Son Heung-Min controls the ball during Seamus Coleman might have had a penalty rout of Liverpool to know that they could not be taken lightly. the English Premier League football match between Watford and Tottenham Hotspur at Vicarage LIVERPOOL: Marko Arnautovic scored a last- when he went down under a Pieters tackle as Road Stadium in Watford, north of London yesterday. Tottenham won the game 2-1. — AFP gasp penalty as Stoke City beat Everton 4-3 in a the home side pushed forward, but Stoke were Watford had surpassed all expectations by thrilling game at Goodison Park yesterday. back ahead thanks to a stunning goal just climbing into the top 10 before the year was out. but a glaring error from Craig Cathcart saw underneath Hugo Lloris. Arnautovic beat Tim Howard from the spot before the interval. Survival appears a formality for the promoted Lamela give the visitors a 17th minute lead. Tottenham needed to respond but breaking as the match moved into stoppage time after Bojan’s superb cross-field pass caught out side. Spurs, on the other hand, have loftier ambi- The Northern Ireland defender was caught in down an organised and stubborn Watford side the Austrian forward had gone down under a the Everton defence and Swiss former Bayern tions. A Champions League finish is a minimum possession by Dele Alli and Lamela broke to slot was no easy task. A concerted spell of pressure John Stones challenge inside the area. Munich star Shaqiri outpaced Galloway before target but a first top-flight crown since 1961 is past Watford’s former Tottenham goalkeeper saw Harry Kane head Trippier’s cross just wide. It was a dramatic end to a humdinger of a beating Howard with a sublime first-time chip certainly not beyond them. Heurelho Gomes. Then came the game changing decision game as Everton came away with nothing that sailed into the net. Again Lukaku struck to To take another step towards achieving that That goal came largely against the run of play which saw left-back Ake, on loan from Chelsea, despite Romelu Lukaku scoring twice to take his bring Everton level just after the hour mark as aim, they would have to do what few sides have but Tottenham appeared to be keeping the shown a straight red card by referee Anthony tally to 11 goals in his last 10 games and go level he controlled a long ball forward from substitute done and that would be to keep Troy Deeney hosts at an arm’s length, with Jurado only threat- Taylor. Watford were furious but replays suggest- with Leicester City’s Jamie Vardy atop the Tom Cleverley before smashing past Butland to and Ighalo quiet. The most prolific pairing in the ening with a long-range drive. ed it was the right call. Premier League scorers’ charts with 15 for the make it 2-2. It was his eighth goal in his last sev- league have combined to devastating effect and That was until Ighalo kept up his amazing Spurs were now camped in the Watford half, season. en Premier League games at Goodison and he that might have been behind Pochettino’s think- goal record four minutes from the break. The but were struggling for ideas before Son struck It was a second straight home loss for was involved again as Everton took the lead for ing as he switched to a three-man defence. Nigerian shrugged off Eric Dier and made the late on to snatch a barely deserved win that Everton and a blow to their European hopes, the first time on 71 minutes, finding Barkley Watford have been strong at the other end most of a fortunate rebound to tuck the ball cemented their position in the top four. — AFP while Stoke followed their 2-0 win against before the England man’s ball across goal was Manchester United on Boxing Day to go above turned in by Gerard Deulofeu. their opponents and into eighth in the table. Roberto Martinez’s side looked set to go and Darlow blunder piles on Mark Hughes’s side had beaten United win it but they were denied as Stoke hit back thanks to goals by Bojan Krkic and Arnautovic again with 10 minutes remaining. and that duo were involved when the visitors Howard could only help on a cross from the opened the scoring on a blustery Merseyside left by Arnautovic and substitute Joselu volleyed misery for Newcastle afternoon. The game was just 16 minutes old in at the back post, the goal the 40th scored at when Bojan accelerated into the area down the Goodison in 10 games this season, but not the left and found Arnautovic, the big Austrian help- last of the day as Arnautovic won it. — AFP Palace stretch unbeaten West Brom 1 run with Swansea stalemate Newcastle 0 Moroccan striker Marouane Chamakh made his first start for Palace in the league this sea- Palace 0 son, while Swansea caretaker boss Alan Curtis WEST BROMWICH: Newcastle were plunged shuffled his pack as he made eight changes to deeper into relegation trouble after rookie goal- the side that defeated the Baggies. keeper Karl Darlow’s howler gifted West Bromwich Palace midfielder Yohan Cabaye picked up Albion a 1-0 win yesterday. Darlow allowed Albion Swansea 0 his fifth booking of the season, ruling him out midfielder Darren Fletcher’s header to slip through of Sunday’s visit of Chelsea, in what was a quiet his grasp in the closing stages at the Hawthorns. first half at Selhurst Park. The hosts nearly went The 25-year-old’s mistake leaves Steve McClaren’s in front just minutes after the restart when LONDON: Crystal Palace stretched their unbeat- third-from-bottom side two points adrift of safety Brede Hangeland flicked on a Cabaye free-kick, en run in the Premier League to six matches fol- after a second successive defeat.