Premier league: Wolves take unexpected bite out of City's title challenge

David Edwards scored his first goal for 14 months to earn Wolves a shock win over Manchester City and boost their Barclays Premier League survival hopes.

City went ahead through Emmanuel Adebayor's penalty and dominated the early part of the match.

But Wolves equalised through Nenad Milijas and then Edwards earned Mick McCarthy's side their first victory since the opening day of the campaign.

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City started the game as if they were going to win at a canter as they threatened to prise open the Wolves defence every time they ventured forward.

But after going ahead they seemed content to sit back, which allowed Wolves back into the game - and they seized the opportunity.

Alex Song's header in the dying minutes gave Arsenal a 1-0 victory over rock-bottom West Ham at the Emirates Stadium.

Arsenal had plenty of momentum going into this game after following up impressive Champions League performances with victory at Manchester City and marching into the quarter-finals of the Carling Cup.

However, Wenger had warned against complacency, with the Irons looking to battle their way clear of the relegation zone.

A great performance from Robert Green, who kept out Song and Cesc Fabregas with two athletic first half saves, ensured that the game remained goalless until the 88th minute when Song nodded home Gael Clichy's cross to keep Arsenal in touch with the leaders.

Everton stretched their unbeaten run to five thanks to Ayegbeni Yakubu's first goal of the season in a 1-0 win over Stoke at Goodison Park.

The Nigerian picked up the ball from Tim Cahill after the Australian's shot had rebounded off the post before beating Asmir Begovic to condemn Stoke to their fourth straight defeat.

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Fulham were catapulted eight places to eighth with a 2-0 win over Wolves thanks to a Clint Dempsey double.

Dempsey headed past Ali Al Habsi to put Mark Hughes' side in front before he latched on to Zoltan Gera's cross to double the Cottagers' advantage just before the break.

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