Leicester City 2-2 Manchester City: Much like Manchester United earlier, the Foxes stun their visitors in the opening moments with a quick corner turned in by Sol Bamba, his first goal in English football
Both teams play an open and attacking game - Bamba going close on a couple of occasions while putting in a shift at the back - and James Milner equalises after cutting inside superbly to make space for himself
Manchester City catch out their hosts with a quick short corner and the attempts to close down Milner only leave space at the near-post for Carlos Tevez to score from with a cute flick
Leicester keep pressing and fighting their Premier League visitors and get their reward when Joe Hart spills Paul Gallagher's shot and Andy King takes the ball off the England goalkeeper to tap in an equaliser from four yards
Chelsea 7-0 Ipswich Town: Much like Tottenham earlier, the Blues have home advantage over a team from a lower division in search of a permanent coach but fail to put an early stamp on the game
Despite good work by Town's Jason Scotland, two goals in two minutes for Chelsea crush the visitors - Salomon Kalou nabs one on the line and Daniel Sturridge backheels in Jose Bosingwa's cross
And, like Spurs, Chelsea hit three in about 10 minutes when Carlos Edwards turns in Frank Lampard's free kick before Nicolas Anelka gets a fourth goal early in the second half
Ipswich's rot, and Chelsea's turnabout in form, is complete as Sturridge soon gets his second goal of the game and Lampard gets himself a brace
The Blues may be trying out young English and Dutch talent including Sturridge, Josh McEachran, Jeffrey Bruma and Patrick van Aanholt, but the result is as much due to Ipswich's capitulation and ineptitude
Manchester United 1-0 Liverpool: Kenny Dalglish returns in charge of the Reds but Glen Johnson, about to become a father, misses out: Dirk Kuyt, Daniel Agger and Raul Meireles all start in a defensive line-up
United strike immediately when Agger's nudge on Dimitar Berbatov earns a penalty in the opening minute and Ryan Giggs scores in front of the away fans
Things get worse for Dalglish when captain Steven Gerrard gets a straight red for a two-footed tackle on Michael Carrick, though United fail to take any advantage beyond Jonny Evans hitting a post with a header
The pressure that the Red Devils fail to assert in the first 45 minutes is turned around from the start of the second half, the relentlessness building to a crescendo of four chances from one corner
Tottenham Hostpur 3-0 Charlton Athletic: Harry Redknapp may only have David Beckham with him to train, not play, but Spurs are still favourites to see off League One Charlton in the lunchtime London derby
The run of play is as expected throughout the first half though the home side create little and threaten even less, despite being 45 places above their opponents
Of all the Tottenham squad players given a chance on Sunday, teenager Andros Townsend makes the most of it, scoring a sweet 20-yard strike on his debut at the very start of the second half
Charlton appear to crumble, and the game appears to be over, after Townsend's goal with Addicks old boy Jermain Defoe grabbing two in two minutes
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