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Arsenal stays on top

LONDON: Arsenal strode into the New Year with its lead at the top of the Premier League intact after a comfortable 2-0 victory over London rival West Ham United on Tuesday. Early goals from strikers Eduardo da Silva and Emmanuel Adebayor did the damage at the Emirates as Arsenal completed the double over a side that beat it home and away last season.

Manchester United, which lost top spot on Saturday after a surprise 2-1 loss at West Ham, kept close on the tail of the Gunners thanks to a Carlos Tevez goal in a 1-0 defeat of Birmingham City in front of an Old Trafford crowd described by manager Alex Ferguson as “funereal”.Arsenal has 50 points from 21 games, two more than champion United, while Chelsea has 44.

The results: Arsenal 2 (Eduardo 2, Adebayor 18) bt West Ham 0; Aston Villa 2 (Mellberg 41, Laursen 85) bt Tottenham 1 (Defoe 79); Manchester United 1 (Tevez 25) bt Birmingham 0; Middlesbrough 0 lost to Everton 2 (Johnson 67, McFadden 72); Reading 0 lost to Portsmouth 2 (Campbell 9, Utaka 66). — Agencies

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