Premier League, Week 22: Manchester United Defeats Arsenal 2-1

For more on Arsenal and United, check out The Short Fuse and The Busby Babe respectively.

This is a fun game now.

It was Balotelli who ended up with the chance to preserve City’s 100% home league record. He took the spot beautifully, and the home side won 3-2. Big, big win there, and City are now six points clear at the top of the table - at least until Manchester United take on Arsenal momentarily.

The Arsenal youngsters are more experienced and in better form than the previous meeting between the two teams, however, and van Persie is perhaps the most in-form striker in the world. An Arsenal win would be an upset, but not a terribly shocking one.

Game Date/Time: Sunday, 11:00 a.m. ET, 4:00 p.m. local

Game Date/Time: Sunday, January 22, 8:30 AM ET, 1:30 PM local

Venue: Etihad Stadium, Manchester, England

Catch Manchester City vs. Tottenham Hotspur at 1:30 PM GMT (8:30 AM EST). It’ll be on Sky Sports 1 in the UK and Fox Soccer Channel in the USA. For more on each team, check out Cartilage Free Captain for all things Spurs and Bitter and Blue for your City fix.

For more on the two teams, check out Bolton blog Lion Of Vienna Suite as well as Liverpool blogs Anfield Asylum and The Offside Liverpool.

A 30-yard strike by James Morrison opening the scoring a little after the half-hour mark. A long run got him within shouting distance of goal, then a last second swerve on the shot fooled Sorensen and resulted in a goal that the keeper should have saved.

With the match looking destined for a draw, Graham Dorrans saved West Brom. A free kick from distance beat Sorensen as his poorr day continued and the Baggies came away with a win they deserved at Stoke.

Fellaini had two golden chances to win the game for his team from inside of 10 yards in stoppage time and managed to put neither of them over the goal line. It was the perfect end to a poorly played match.

For more on the Toffees, head over to Everton blog Royal Blue Mersey.

For more on the two teams, check out Fulham FC blog Cottagers Confidential and Newcastle Untied blog Coming Home Newcastle.

Wolves certainly didn’t look like the team that drew with Tottenham Hotspur at White Hart Lane last weekend and with the injury to Frimpong and the suspension of Henry things could be tough in the coming weeks for Mick McCarthy. Meanwhile, McCleish has to feel vindicated about the loan signing of Keane who looked like he may still have some magic left in his legs.

For more on the Villains, visit Aston Villa blog 7500 to Holte.

For more on the Black Cats, check out Sunderland AFC blog Roker Report.

Quite often, there are games in the Premier League where a mid-to-lower table side squeaks out a draw against one of the big sides because of some great defending and/or an unlucky goal. The big team batters the goal and gets tons of bodies into the box, but can’t find the breakthrough. This was not one of those games.

For more on the Blues, check out Chelsea FC blog We Ain’t Got No History.