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| October 26, 2003 | Sunday | Sha’aban 29, 1424 |
Fulham crush United as Chelsea go top
LONDON, Oct 25: Fulham stunned Manchester United 3-1 at Old Trafford in the English Premier League on Saturday, a result which allowed Fulham’s arch-rivals Chelsea to take over top spot in the table.
Goals from Lee Clark (3), Steed Malbranque (66) and substitute Junichi Inamoto (79) sent United crashing to their first league defeat at home since September 2002 and gave Fulham their first win over United since 1964.
Diego Forlan scored for United on the stroke of halftime.
Chelsea leapfrogged over United and non-playing Arsenal into top spot after their 1-0 win over Manchester City at Stamford Bridge thanks to a first half goal from Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink.
Chelsea have 23 points, the same number as Arsenal but Chelsea are top as they have scored two more goals with both sides having a goal difference of plus 11. United are third on 22 points.
Arsenal will go back on top if they avoid defeat at Charlton Athletic on Sunday.
There was an astonishing match at Molyneux where Wolves, three down at halftime, scored four times in the second half to beat Leicester City 4-3 in the battle between the two basement teams, which keeps Leicester bottom.
In other action Newcastle United beat Portsmouth 3-0, Southampton beat Blackburn Rovers 2-0 and Aston Villa drew 0-0 with Everton.
Liverpool beat Leeds United 3-1 and Birmingham City edged Bolton Wanderers 1-0 in the early kick-offs.
Results
Aston Villa 0 Everton 0
Bolton Wanderers 0 Birmingham City 1
Chelsea 1 Manchester City 0
Liverpool 3 Leeds United 1
Manchester United 1 Fulham 3
Newcastle United 3 Portsmouth 0
Southampton 2 Blackburn Rovers 0
Wolves 4 Leicester City 3
Playing on Sunday: Charlton Athletic v Arsenal Tottenham Hotspur v Middlesbrough
STUTTGAR EXTEND LEAD
BERLIN: VfB Stuttgart recaptured the lead in the Bundesliga by extending their unbeaten run to 10 games with a 1-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday.
Substitute striker Ioannis Amanatidis hit the winner in the 74th minute to send Stuttgart two points ahead of previous leaders Bayer Leverkusen, who play Borussia Moenchengladbach on Sunday.
Two goals from prolific Brazilian striker Ailton helped Werder Bremen win 4-2 at SC Freiburg to move into third, level on points with second-placed Leverkusen.
Germany midfielder Sebastian Deisler and Dutch striker Roy Makaay both struck twice to present Bayern with a 4-1 win over Kaiserslautern that took the champions a spot up into fourth, three points off the pace.
Troubled Hertha Berlin recorded their first victory of the season by winning 1-0 at Hansa Rostock courtesy of a first-half effort from Brazil striker Luizao.
The capital club’s bosses had told Hertha coach Huub Stevens that he had to win that game and another one in Rostock in the German Cup on Tuesday to keep his job.
Results
Hanover 96 1 TSV 1860 Munich 1 Eintracht Frankfurt 2 Cologne 0
SC Freiburg 2 Werder Bremen 4
VfB Stuttgart 1 VfL Wolfsburg 0
Hansa Rostock 0 Hertha Berlin 1
Bayern Munich 4 Kaiserslautern 1
Hamburg SV 2 Schalke 04 2
Scottish Premier League
Celtic 4 Aberdeen 0
Hibernian 3 Kilmarnock 1
Livingston 0 Rangers 0
Partick Thistle 1 Hearts 4
—Reuters
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