Liverpool v Wolves: Fresh from a league defeat to bottom-placed Portsmouth and falling well short of the Champions League places, Liverpool's fans nonetheless offer support to boss Rafael Benitez
With Javier Mascherano suspended, Alberto Aquilani makes his long-awaited Premier League start for the Reds, while Mick McCarthy looks to leading goalscorer Kevin Doyle to aid Wolves' climb up the table
Liverpool make the extra man count after Wolves' Stephen Ward is sent off; Steven Gerrard scores with his head and Yossi Benayoun grabs a second to wrap up the points for the home side
Man City 2-0 Stoke: New boss Roberto Mancini greets the fans ahead of his first game as Man City boss, and gives them something to smile about after half an hour as Martin Petrov taps in to take the early lead
Carlos Tevez doubles Man City's lead deep into first-half injury time, his sixth goal in as many matches seals a debut win for Mancini
Sunderland 1-1 Everton: Despite a poor home record against Everton, and having lost four of their last five games, the Black Cats are first to score, Darren Bent heading in after a neat one-two with Kenwyne Jones
Another shot from Bent minutes later is cleared off the line by Johnny Heitinga, and Everton's Marouane Fellaini heads in Tony Hibbert's cross to score a late but well-deserved equaliser
Wigan 1-1 Blackburn: Benni McCarthy attempts an overhead kick, but it's a close-range effort which gets him off the mark this season and gives the visitors the lead going into the break
Both sides need a win to draw clear of the drop zone, but have to be happy with a point apiece after Wigan's prolific Hugo Rodallega powered his header into the goal to seal the draw
Burney 1-1 Bolton: Clarets boss Owen Coyle helped guide Bolton to the Premier League as a player, but will be gunning for a home win to help halt his side's slide down the table
Amid a red-hot derby atmosphere, the visitors get off the mark on the half-hour, Matt Taylor curling in the free-kick after Andre Bikey's foul on Kevin Davies to put the Trotters one up
The Clarets fight back to equalise through David Nugent's header; Bolton's failure to keep a clean sheet stretches back to May, and the point is not enough to lift them out of the bottom three
Birmingham 0-0 Chelsea: Carlo Acelotti's league-leaders take on Alex McLeish's in-form side, with Birmingham hoping to secure their first victory against Chelsea for 29 years
Daniel Sturridge, whose father played for Birmingham, starts for Chelsea for the first time, keen to prove he can provide able cover up front for injured Nicolas Anelka and Africa Cup of Nations-bound Didier Drogba
Chances go begging at both ends; Paul Hart saves well from Sturridge and Frank Lampard to secure an eighth clean sheet for City, and Christian Benitez has a goal ruled offside before Florent Malouda is sent off
Fulham 0-0 Tottenham: Harry Redknapp's players will attempt to get back in the manager's good books after their Christmas partying hit the headlines, with a win at Craven Cottage
Fulham dominate but are denied by a string of excellent saves from Spurs keeper Heurelho Gomes, while Fulham counterpart Mark Schwarzer denies Peter Crouch and Jermaine Jenas late on to hold on to a point
West Ham 2-0 Portsmouth: A solitary point separates West Ham from bottom-placed Pompey as the Hammers look to repeat last year's Boxing Day victory against their fellow strugglers
Alessandro Diamanti scores from the spot to break the deadlock after 23 minutes, after Hayden Mullin brings down Luis Jimenez in the penalty area
Pompey look brighter after the break and go close through Kevin Boateng and Frederic Piquionne, but Radoslav Kovac heads home Jimenez's free-kick to bag all the points and lift the Hammers out of the drop zone
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