SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2013 SPORTS Soccer results/standings Arsenal sink Liverpool English Premier League results 1 AFC Wimbledon 2. Fulham 1 (Kacaniklic 65) Manchester United 3 Scottish Cup results Arsenal 2 (Valencia 9, Van Persie 20, Rooney 22); Hull 1 3rd rd Albion 1 Deveronvale 0; Alloa 3 Inverurie (Cuellar 25-og) Sunderland 0; Manchester City 7 Loco Works 0; Arbroath 0 Brechin 2; Ayr 3 Queen’s (Johnson 16-og, Silva 20, Nastasic 25, Negredo 36, Park 2; Clyde 2 Brora Rangers 1; Culter 1 Berwick 1; Toure 60, Aguero 71, Dzeko 86) Norwich Dumbarton 2 Cowdenbeath 1; Elgin 3 Dunfermline Liverpool 0 0;Newcastle 2 (Gouffran 68, Remy 89) Chelsea 0; 5; Forfar 2 East Fife 1; Fraserburgh 2 Montrose 1; Stoke 1 (Begovic 1) Southampton 1 (Rodriguez 42); Queen of the South 1 Hamilton 0; Stenhousemuir 2 West Brom 2 (Berahino 45, McAuley 83) Crystal Annan Athletic 2; Stranraer 2 Auchinleck Talbot 2; Palace 0; West Ham 0 Aston Villa 0; Arsenal 2 Turriff United 0 Stirling 3. LONDON: Arsenal moved five points clear at (Cazorla 19, Ramsey 59) Liverpool 0. the top of the Premier League thanks to a 2-0 victory over Liverpool at the Emirates Stadium Playing today Playing today in yesterday’s late fixture. East Stirling v Raith Santi Cazorla and Aaron Ramsey were the Everton v Tottenham, Cardiff v Swansea. scorers on a day when Liverpool would have Scottish Premiership results gone top had they won. Brendan Rodgers’s visi- English Football League results Celtic 1 (Mulgrew 90) Dundee Utd 1 (Armstrong tors now find themselves back in third place, Championship 38); Hearts 0 St Johnstone 2 (Hasselbaink 29, May having briefly been in second on goal difference Birmingham 0 Charlton 1; Blackburn 1 53); Inverness CT 2 (Doran 7, Shinnie 52) earlier in the day after Chelsea lost at Newcastle Middlesbrough 0; Bournemouth 0 Bolton 2; Kilmarnock 1 (Barr 76); St Mirren v Ross County, United. Doncaster 1 Brighton 3; Leeds 2 Yeovil 0; Millwall 2 That made it the most important domestic match abandoned in the 87th minute due to a Burnley 2; Nottingham Forest 0 Blackpool 1; QPR 2 fixture for both sides so far this season, with waterlogged pitch with St Mirren leading 2-0. Derby 1; Sheffield Wednesday 5 Reading 2; Watford Arsenal now facing Borussia Dortmund in the 0 Leicester 3; Wigan 2 Huddersfield 1. Champions League on Wednesday before trav- Playing today elling to Manchester United next Sunday. Motherwell v Hibernian The game was also given extra spice by LONDON: Arsenal’s Laurent Koscielny fights for the ball with Liverpool’s Luis Su·rez, during Division One Arsenal’s pursuit of Luis Suarez over the sum- their English Premier League soccer match, at the Emirates Stadium. —AP Bristol City 1 Oldham 1; Coventry 3 Notts County 0; Playing tomorrow mer, when the Gunners lodged a bid of Crawley 0 Brentford 1; Crewe 0 Bradford 0; £40,000,001 ($63.7 million, 47.2 million euros) in ting the rebound. as he managed to get in behind the Arsenal Aberdeen v Partick Gillingham 1 Carlisle 0; Milton Keynes Dons 1 the mistaken belief that it would trigger a Liverpool were aggrieved when Henderson defence three times in quick succession, but to Walsall 0; Peterborough 1 Leyton Orient 3; Preston release clause in the Liverpool striker’s contract. put the ball in the net after Suarez had played a no avail. 1 Tranmere 1; Rotherham 2 Colchester 2; German League results Liverpool held on doggedly to a player who free-kick to Daniel Sturridge, only for referee Olivier Giroud should have made it 2-0 after Martin Atkinson to rule that it had been taken intercepting Toure’s poor pass to Martin Skrtel, Shrewsbury 2 Sheffield Utd 0; Swindon 5 Port Vale Nuremberg 0 SC Freiburg 3 (Klaus 57, Darida 79, was serving a 10-match ban for biting Chelsea’s too quickly. but the France striker chipped into the side-net- 2; Wolves 2 Stevenage 0. Mehmedi 88); Hoffenheim 1 (Sch¸le 34) Bayern Branislav Ivanovic in April and he went into this Munich 2 (Mandzukic 39, Mueller 75); Hamburg 0 game having scored six goals in five matches. A yellow card for Sagna for the initial foul did ting with only Mignolet to beat. not appease the visitors and although Szczesny Arsenal did not let up, however, and were Moenchengladbach 2 (Kruse 23, 63); Eintracht The game began at a frantic pace and Tomas Division Two denied Kolo Toure from the retaken free-kick, rewarded with a goal from Ramsey in the 59th Braunschweig 1 (Kumbela 81) Bayer Leverkusen 0; Rosicky forced Liverpool goalkeeper Simon Accrington 1 Wycombe 1; Burton 0 Morecambe 1; Mignolet into an early save. the flag was up anyway. minute, with the Wales midfielder finding the Hertha Berlin 0 Schalke 04 2 (Szalai 26, Draxler Bury 1 Torquay 3; Cheltenham 2 York 2; There was quickly a chance at the other end Liverpool’s 3-5-2 formation had left them net from 20 yards with a swerving effort after Chesterfield 1 Scunthorpe 1; Fleetwood 4 90+4); Eintracht Frankfurt v VfL Wolfsburg for Jordan Henderson, who robbed Cazorla and exposed down the flanks at times, but Jon demonstrating superior technique to set him- Newport 1; Hartlepool 2 Dagenham and was allowed to reach the penalty area before Flanagan-making his first Premier League self up from Mesut Ozil’s pass. Redbridge 1; Oxford 0 Bristol Rovers 1; Plymouth 1 Playing today scuffing a weak effort at goalkeeper Wojciech appearance since April 2012 had been more Suarez almost pulled one back, but saw his Northampton 0; Portsmouth 3 Exeter 2; Rochdale FC Augsburg v Mainz 05; Werder Bremen v Hanover. Szczesny. impressive on the right than Aly Cissokho on effort graze the far post. Another chance came Arsenal’s reply was to take the lead in the the other side. Suarez’s way late on as Arsenal switched off, but English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals 19th minute through Cazorla. The Spain mid- Rodgers changed that at half-time, with the Uruguay forward fired across goal and wide, against, points): fielder was first to Bacary Sagna’s cross from the Philippe Coutinho replacing Cissokho. It and the hosts saw out the final few minutes Arsenal 10 8 1 1 22 9 25 Wycombe 14 6 3 5 20 17 21 right and headed against the post before net- pepped Liverpool up, and Suarez in particular, with no further alarm.—AFP Chelsea 10 6 2 2 16 8 20 Hartlepool 15 6 3 6 19 17 21 Liverpool 10 6 2 2 17 10 20 Mansfield 15 5 6 4 15 15 21 Baggies see off Man City 10 6 1 3 28 11 19 AFC Wimbledon15 6 3 6 17 19 21 Southampton 10 5 4 1 11 4 19 Portsmouth 14 5 5 4 23 22 20 struggling Palace Tottenham 9 6 1 2 9 5 19 Plymouth 15 5 3 7 10 15 18 BIRMINGHAM: Saido Everton 9 5 3 1 14 10 18 Cheltenham 15 4 5 6 21 27 17 Man Utd 10 5 2 3 17 13 17 Berahino came off the York 15 4 4 7 21 24 16 bench to inspire West West Brom 2 Newcastle 10 4 2 4 14 16 14 Bristol Rovers 15 3 5 7 12 18 14 Bromwich Albion to a 2- Hull 10 4 2 4 8 10 14 Torquay 15 3 5 7 17 25 14 0 win over struggling West Brom 10 3 4 3 10 10 13 Bury 15 3 4 8 16 20 13 Crystal Palace yester- Crystal Palace 0 Swansea 9 3 2 4 12 11 11 Accrington 15 2 5 8 12 22 11 day. Berahino replaced Aston Villa 10 3 2 5 9 12 11 Northampton 15 2 4 9 13 22 10 the injured Billy Jones West Ham 10 2 4 4 8 8 10 Scottish Premiership table after 31 minutes at the Fulham 10 3 1 6 10 15 10 Hawthorns and the Celtic 11 8 3 0 23 10 27 Stoke 10 2 3 5 7 11 9 Burundi-born England Inverness CT 11 7 1 3 18 11 22 Cardiff 9 2 3 4 8 13 9 Under-21 striker opened the scoring just before half-time. Aberdeen 11 6 2 3 14 8 20 Norwich 10 2 2 6 6 20 8 It was Berahino’s sixth goal of the season in all competi- Motherwell 11 6 1 4 13 14 19 tions and the 20-year-old’s second in the Premier League fol- Sunderland 10 1 1 8 7 22 4 St Johnstone 12 5 3 4 19 13 18 lowing his strike at Manchester United in September. Crystal Palace 10 1 0 9 6 21 3 Dundee Utd 12 4 5 3 17 9 17 Gareth McAuley bagged the second goal for Albion in the English Football League tables Hibernian 11 4 3 4 9 11 15 closing stages as Steve Clarke’s team won for the third time in Championship Partick 11 3 4 4 11 13 13 the league this season. Palace, still managerless following Ian Burnley 14 10 3 1 26 9 33 Holloway’s departure, remain bottom of the table after their Ross County 10 3 1 6 11 19 10 Leicester 14 10 2 2 24 13 32 seventh successive defeat and their ninth loss in 10 league Kilmarnock 12 2 3 7 13 18 9 QPR 14 9 4 1 16 7 31 matches this season.