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Chelsea Hold Red Devils at the Bridge

Written by Adeleke Afolayan

Sunday, 21 September 2008

Chelsea relinquished its Premier League lead to Arsenal following a 1-1 draw this afternoon to Manchester United with Salomon Kalou coming off the bench to salvage a point for the Blues.

In a thrilling encounter that lived up to its top billing, both sides had chances to open scoring with Wayne Rooney's effort from midfield just eluding the goal with Petr Cech beaten while Joe Cole could only find the sidenetting one-on-one with Edwin Van der Sar.

However, Ji Sung Park put the visitors in front on the 18th minute with a well worked goal orchestrated by Patrice Evra and rounded up by the Korean who pounced on the rebound off Dimitar Berbatov's shot.

With van Der Sar going off injured, Chelsea continued its search for an equaliser and found a way with 10 minutes left through Kalou's header off John Mikel Obi's free kick, stretching the Blues' unbeaten home run in the league to 85 matches.

The result leaves Chelsea in second place level on 11 points with third placed Liverpool, one point behind new leaders Arsenal that defeated Bolton 3-1 on Saturday.

In other matches played this afternoon, Yakubu Aiyegbeni's Everton came from two goals down to earn a thrilling 2-2 draw at Hull City with second half goals from Tim Cahill and Leon Osman; off a Yakubu cross, cancelling out the goal from Michael Turner and an own goal from Phil Neville.

At White Hart Lane, Tottenham Hotspur's poor start to the season continued as it played out an uninspiring goalless draw against Wigan Athletic to leave Spurs rooted to the bottom with just two points.

The goals however came in the final game between Manchester City and Portsmouth with City running riot and hitting six past Nwankwo Kanu and John Utaka's club, with Richard Dunne, Brazilians Jo and Robinho as well as Shawn Wright-Phillips among the scorers.

The win lifts City into fifth place on nine points ahead of West Ham United on goal difference while Aston Villa, 2-1 winners earlier against West Brom with the Villa goals from John Carew and Gabriel Agbonlahor, is fourth on 10 points.

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