Portsmouth vs Man Utd Highlights Video

Portsmouth vs Man Utd Highlights Video
Asmir Begovic is likely to replace injured England goalkeeper David James for Avram Grant’s first game in charge of bottom club Portsmouth – at home to champions Manchester United at Fratton Park.

Grant, still officially Pompey’s director of football until paperwork arrives enabling him to be installed as successor to sacked manager Paul Hart, could stick with Jamie Ashdown but highly-rated Bosnian international Begovic was recalled from a loan spell at Ipswich earlier this week.
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FC Porto vs Chelsea Highlights Video

FC Porto vs Chelsea Highlights Video
Didier Drogba and Michael Essien will start Wednesday’s Champions League clash against Porto on the bench as they continue to recover from injury.

Essien, who scored twice in Saturday’s 4-0 win against Wolves, has a knee problem and Drogba a chest complaint.
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Man Utd vs Everton Highlights Video

Man Utd 3-0 Everton Highlights Video
35′ Darren Fletcher Goal 1 – 0
67′ Michael Carrick Goal 2 – 0
76′ Antonio Valencia Goal 3 – 0

Nemanja Vidic should return to the heart of Manchester United’s defence for their Premier League encounter with Everton at Old Trafford.

The Serbian has been struggling with a calf injury but came through his country’s midweek international with South Korea and is expected to feature as Rio Ferdinand (back) and John O’Shea (thigh) are definitely out.
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Sunderland vs Arsenal Highlights Video

Sunderland 1-0 Arsenal
71′ Darren Bent

Goalkeeper Marton Fulop is set to begin an extended run in the Sunderland side as Arsenal visit in the Barclays Premier League.

Fulop is likely to take over from Craig Gordon, who will be out for three months after breaking his arm in the defeat by Tottenham a fortnight ago.
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Chelsea vs Wolve Highlights Video

Chelsea 4-0 Wolve Highlights Video
5′ Florent Malouda Goal 1 – 0
12′ Michael Essien Goal 2 – 0
22′ Michael Essien Goal 3 – 0
56′ Joe Cole Goal 4 – 0

Chelsea will be without Frank Lampard, Didier Drogba, Michael Ballack and Deco against Wolves.

Drogba is back in training after the rib injury he received against Manchester United but will be out for another week while Ballack (knee) should be back for the Champions League match against Porto on Wednesday.
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Liverpool vs Man City Highlights Video

Liverpool 2-2 Man City Highlights Video
50′ Martin Skrtel Goal 1 – 0
69′ 1 – 1 Goal Emmanuel Adebayor
76′ 1 – 2 Goal Stephen Ireland
77′ Yossi Benayoun Goal 2 – 2

All four of the Liverpool players sent to Belgrade this week for treatment for their injuries are in the squad to face Manchester City at Anfield.

Glen Johnson, Fabio Aurelio, Yossi Benayoun and Albert Riera have all been treated by Serbian physiotherapist Mariana Kovacevic this week and are all back in full training.
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Chelsea vs Man Utd Highlights Video

Chelsea 1-0 Man Utd Highlights Video
76′ John Terry

Deco has stoked the fires ahead of the clash with Manchester United by claiming that he thinks Chelsea have too much fire-power for Manchester United to contend with.

The Premier League’s top two meet in the top clash at the weekend, and Deco is backing the Blues – currently top by two points – to extend their lead. The Portuguese midfield maestro is going into the game fully confident that Didier Drogba will fire them to victory.
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Wolverhampton vs Arsenal

Wolverhampton vs Arsenal Highlights Video
The Scottish international suffered a recurrence of a metatarsal problem during his full top-flight debut at Stoke last weekend – although there is no repeat of the close-season fracture.

Last season’s top scorer Sylvan Ebanks-Blake will return to the starting line-up against Arsene Wenger’s side.
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Man City 3 - 3 Burnley Highlights Video

Man City 3 – 3 Burnley
19′ 0 – 1 Graham Alexander (pen)
32′ 0 – 2 Steven Fletcher
43′ Shaun Wright-Phillips 1 – 2
55′ Kolo Toure 2 – 2
58′ Craig Bellamy 3 – 2
87′ 3 – 3 Kevin McDonald

Manchester City striker Emmanuel Adebayor and defender Kolo Toure look certain to return for the Barclays Premier League visit of Burnley to Eastlands.

Adebayor and Toure missed Sunday’s goalless draw at Birmingham with ankle and heel injuries respectively, yet have trained without issues over the past two days.
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Aston Villa 5 - 1 Bolton Highlights Video

Aston Villa 5 – 1 Bolton
5′ Ashley Young Goal 1 – 0
43′ Gabriel Agbonlahor Goal 2 – 0
44′ 2 – 1 Goal Johan Elmander
53′ John Carew Goal 3 – 1
72′ James Milner (pen miss)
72′ James Milner Goal 4 – 1
75′ Carlos Jimenez Cuellar Goal 5 – 1

Aston Villa will be without skipper Stiliyan Petrov and defender Habib Beye through suspension for the Barclays Premier League match with Bolton.

Petrov collected his fifth booking of the campaign during the midweek defeat at West Ham – a game in which Beye was also sent off.
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