SUNDAY, APRIL 27, 2014 SPORTS Soccer results/standings Swansea rout Villa English Premier League results Playing today Fulham 2 (Dejagah 55, Amorebieta 58) Hull 2 Burton v Chesterfield. (Jelavic 75, Long 87); Manchester United 4 (Rooney 41-pen, 48, Mata 63, 73) Norwich 0; Scottish Premiership results Swansea 4 Southampton 2 (Alcaraz 1-og, Coleman 31-og) Aberdeen 1 (Rooney 31) St Johnstone 1 (May 8); Everton 0; Stoke 0 Tottenham 1 (Rose 33); Dundee Utd 5 (Ciftci 8, 41, Armstrong 61, Dow 72, Swansea 4 (Bony 10, 90-pen, Shelvey 26, Graham 81) Motherwell 1 (Ainsworth 88); Ross Hernandez 73) Aston Villa 1 (Agbonlahor 22); County 2 (Kiss 41, Brittain 77-pen) Kilmarnock 1 West Brom 1 (Berahino 11) West Ham 0. (Boyd 88). Aston Villa 1 Playing today Played Friday Crystal Palace v Manchester City, Liverpool v Partick 1 (Doolan 26) St Mirren 1 (McLean 45-pen) Chelsea, Sunderland v Cardiff. Playing today Celtic v Inverness CT, Hibernian v Hearts. Playing tomorrow Arsenal v Newcastle. Scottish Football League results SWANSEA: Jonjo Shelvey produced a goal of the English Football League Championship season contender to inspire Swansea to a 4-1 rout Championship Alloa 0 Dundee 3; Dumbarton 4 Hamilton 1; of Aston Villa that all but secured their Premier Birmingham 1 Leeds 3; Bournemouth 4 Morton 1 Falkirk 1; Queen Of The South 2 League survival yesterday. Nottingham Forest 1; Burnley 1 Ipswich 0; Livingston 0; Raith 1 Cowdenbeath 2. Former Liverpool midfielder Shelvey beat Villa Charlton 1 Blackburn 3; Derby 4 Watford 2; Division One goalkeeper Brad Guzan with a stunning 45-yard Doncaster 1 Reading 3; Huddersfield 0 Leicester Arbroath 1 Dunfermline 2; East Fife 1 Brechin 2; 2; Middlesbrough 3 Barnsley 1; QPR 1 Millwall 1; Forfar 4 Ayr 2; Rangers 3 Stranraer 0; volley at the Liberty Stadium to put his side 2-1 Sheffield Wednesday 1 Bolton 3; Wigan 0 Stenhousemuir 1 Airdrie 2. ahead in the first half. Blackpool 2. Division Two Ivory Coast striker Wilfried Bony had opened Played Friday Clyde4 Albion 0; Elgin 5 East Stirling 0; Montrose the scoring for Swansea before Gabriel Brighton 2 Yeovil 0. 2 Annan Athletic 1; Peterhead 0 Stirling 4; Agbonlahor levelled. Inspired by Shelvey’s Division One Queen’s Park 1 Berwick 3. moment of magic, Swansea dominated the sec- Bradford 2 Crawley 1; Bristol City 0 Crewe 0; Carlisle 0 Oldham 1; Colchester 4 Brentford 1; German League results ond half and were rewarded with Pablo Coventry 1 Wolves 1; Leyton Orient 2 Tranmere 0; Mainz 2 (Okazaki 30, Moritz 44) Nuremberg 0; Hernandez’s strike before Bony added to his tally Notts County 2 Swindon 0; Preston 3 Gillingham Hoffenheim 0 Eintracht Frankfurt 0; with a stoppage-time penalty. 1; Rotherham 2 Milton Keynes Dons 2; Bayern Munich 5 (Ribery 20, Pizarro 54, 57, Barring a remarkable mathematical swing LONDON: Swansea City’s Wilfried Bony (right) shoots to score his team’s opening goal during Shrewsbury 2 Peterborough 4; Stevenage 3 Schweinsteiger 61, Robben 74); Werder Bremen 2 against them over the final two weeks, Swansea’s their English Premier League soccer match against Aston Villa at the Liberty Stadium. — AP Walsall 2. (Gebre Selassie 10, Hunt 36); Hertha Berlin 2 second successive win has effectively secured Played Friday (Brooks 61, Allagui 77) Eintracht Braunschweig 0; Port Vale 1 Sheffield Utd 2 Wolfsburg 2 (Perisic 3, 70) Freiburg 2 (Mehmedi their top flight status. Karim El Ahmadi slipped the ball down the from a Wayne Routledge cross on the hour. Divsion Two 61, Terrazzino 83); Bayer Leverkusen 2 (L. Bender Villa, meanwhile, are now without a win in six flank to Marc Albrighton, whose curling cross was Monk’s men continued to probe and press and AFC Wimbledon 0 Morecambe 3; Bury 4 7, Castro 35) Borussia Dortmund 2 (Kirch 29, matches and only four points above the relegation converted by Agbonlahor from close range. were rewarded for their dominance when Portsmouth 4; Dagenham and Redbridge 0 Reus 39-pen). zone with a tough run-in. The goal ended a Premier League drought of Hernandez made it 3-1. Northampton 3; Exeter 2 Scunthorpe 0; Playing today Bony opened the scoring in the 10th minute three hours and 42 minutes for Lambert’s team. The Spaniard was free at the back post when Fleetwood 1 Southend 1; Mansfield 1 Torquay 3; Augsburg v Hamburg, Schalke v Borussia when he latched on to a through-ball from But Shelvey’s wonder-strike put Garry Monk’s Shelvey crossed, cut in field and scored via the Oxford 1 Accrington 2; Plymouth 1 Hartlepool 1; Moenchengladbach. Rochdale 2 Cheltenham 0; Wycombe 1 Bristol Played Friday Shelvey that pierced Villa’s high defensive line. side back in front three minutes later. After chest- head of Ryan Bertrand, who was back defending Rovers 2; York 1 Newport 0. Hanover 0 VfB Stuttgart 0. Centre-back Nathan Baker appealed for offside, ing down Villa captain Ron Vlaar’s clearance, he hit the goal-line. but the flag stayed down and Bony side-footed a missile of a volley from 45 yards that cleared the Villa’s misery was compounded in stoppage- English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals past Guzan with ease to bag his 14th league goal stunned Guzan and curled into the top corner. time when Baker pushed substitute Marvin Emnes against, points): of the season.Villa equalised in the 22nd minute Jonathan De Guzman should have extended in the back and conceded a penalty which Bony Liverpool 35 25 5 5 96 44 80 Scottish Premiership table thanks to some slick football down the right. Swansea’s lead when he shanked the ball wide slammed home.—AFP Chelsea 35 23 6 6 67 26 75 Celtic 34 28 5 1 85 19 89 Man City 34 23 5 6 91 35 74 — champions Arsenal 35 21 7 7 62 41 70 Aberdeen 35 19 8 8 48 31 65 Everton 36 20 9 7 57 36 69 Motherwell 35 19 4 12 59 58 61 Rose blooms for Spurs Tottenham 36 20 6 10 52 49 66 Dundee Utd 35 16 9 10 62 43 57 Man Utd 35 18 6 11 60 40 60 Inverness 34 15 8 11 40 35 53 international’s hand. Southampton 36 14 10 12 52 45 52 St Johnstone 35 15 7 13 44 35 52 Adam became a hate figures for Newcastle 35 14 4 17 39 54 46 St Mirren 35 9 8 18 37 56 35 Stoke 0 fans of north London side Spurs Stoke 36 11 11 14 39 50 44 Hibernian 34 8 10 16 29 46 34 because of a controversial tackle Crystal Palace 35 13 4 18 28 41 43 Ross County 35 9 7 19 40 59 34 on Paulinho in the reverse fixture Swansea 36 10 9 17 51 52 39 Partick 35 7 13 15 39 59 34 which sidelined the midfielder for Hull 35 10 7 18 36 45 37 Kilmarnock 35 9 6 20 43 61 33 West Ham 36 10 7 19 38 49 37 Hearts 34 8 7 19 35 59 16 Tottenham 1 a month. West Brom 35 7 15 13 42 54 36 — relegated But the issue of a handshake Aston Villa 35 9 8 18 36 53 35 Note: Hearts deducted 15 points for entering administra- with Adam didn’t arise after Stoke Norwich 36 8 8 20 28 60 32 tion manager Mark Hughes kept him Fulham 36 9 4 23 37 79 31 STOKE-ON-TRENT: Danny Rose on the bench as an unused substi- Cardiff 35 7 9 19 31 6530 Scottish Football League tables was the key man as Tottenham Sunderland 34 7 8 19 33 57 29 Championship tute. Note: Top four teams qualify for next season’s Champions Dundee 35 20 6 9 52 25 66 Hotspur enjoyed a first away win A niggly match at the Britannia League; fifth-place team qualifies for Europa League; bot- Hamilton 35 18 10 7 58 39 64 for more than two months with a Stadium saw Shawcross angry ear- tom three teams relegated to Championship Falkirk 35 18 9 8 56 32 63 1-0 victory against 10-man Stoke ly on after what he felt was a fore- Q of South 35 16 6 13 52 38 54 yesterday. arm in the face from Spurs striker English Football League tables Dumbarton 35 15 6 14 64 62 51 The defender scored his first Emmanuel Adebayor went unpun- Championship Livingston 35 12 7 16 49 56 43 Premier League goal of the season Leicester 45 30 9 6 82 43 99 Raith 35 11 9 15 48 59 42 ished by referee Andre Marriner. — champions Alloa 35 11 7 17 33 48 40 in the 33rd minute and was then Adebayor was heavily involved Burnley 45 26 14 5 70 35 92 Cowdenbeath 35 11 6 18 49 71 39 fouled by Ryan Shawcross in the in creating the only goal of the — promoted Morton 35 6 8 21 30 61 26 incident that saw the Stoke cap- game, beating Glenn Whelan on Derby 45 25 9 11 83 51 84 — relegated tain sent off minutes after half- the right of the area before send- QPR 45 22 11 12 57 42 77 time for a second bookable ing in a pinpoint cross for Rose, Reading 45 19 13 13 68 54 70 Division One offence. who headed past Stoke goalkeep- LONDON: Tottenham’s Christian Eriksen tackles Stoke’s Glenn Whelan Wigan 44 20 10 14 57 44 70 Rangers 35 33 2 0 105 17 101 (right) during the English Premier League soccer match.