Chelsea 3 Wolves 0

Chelsea returned to winning ways with a comfortable win over Wolves to ease the pressure on under-fire manager Andre Villas-Boas.

Recent defeats to Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen had piled the pressure on the 34-year-old Blues boss, but the tension at Stamford Bridge eased in the sixth minute of today's game when John Terry capitalised on some poor marking to head home Juan Mata's cross.

Daniel Sturridge slipped his marker to tap home Mata's ball just before the half hour before the Spaniard added the hosts' third in the last minute of the first half when he was given plenty of space to convert Ashley Cole's cross from 12 yards.

Stoke 3 Blackburn 1

Stoke ended a run of four successive Barclays Premier League defeats in comprehensive fashion as Blackburn's troubles continued.

Goals from Jermaine Pennant, Glenn Whelan and Peter Crouch increased the pressure on Rovers manager Steve Kean, who has now won just six times in 34 league matches, as Ruben Rochina's late consolation had little impact.

Rovers remain mired in the bottom three and this performance highlighted why, despite Kean's insistence that they have not played badly this season.

West Brom 1 Tottenham 3

Tottenham striker Jermaine Defoe celebrated his first Barclays Premier League start for nearly two months with his side's crucial second goal against West Brom at the Hawthorns.

Albion were given an early lead through Youssouf Mulumbu's header but Spurs levelled through Emmanuel Adebayor after his initial penalty had been parried by Ben Foster.

Defoe then struck his seventh goal of the campaign with nine minutes remaining from an Adebayor flick after earning a recall in place of the injured Rafael van der Vaart. Adebayor added a third in injury time.

Bolton 0 Everton 2

Everton recorded back-to-back Barclays Premier League wins for the first time this season as strikes from Marouane Fellaini and Apostolos Vellios secured victory over 10-man Bolton at the Reebok Stadium.

The Toffees took the lead four minutes into the second half when Fellaini swept in from close range before substitute Vellios netted a second 12 minutes from time.

Wanderers had earlier had David Wheater sent off, the defender being shown a straight red card in the 20th minute for a challenge on Diniyar Bilyaletdinov, his second dismissal of the campaign.

Manchester United 1 Newcastle 1

Manchester United were left furious as a Demba Ba penalty robbed them of victory over Newcastle at Old Trafford.

Leading through Javier Hernandez, TV replays showed Rio Ferdinand played the ball as he slid in on Hatem Ben Arfa.

The well-placed far-side linesman decided otherwise and despite the dismissal of Jonas Gutierrez, United were unable to force home a winner, old boy Danny Simpson producing a magnificent goal-line clearance to turn away Hernandez's header.

Norwich 2 QPR 1

Norwich talisman Grant Holt came off the bench to bundle home the winning goal in a closely-fought Barclays Premier League encounter with QPR.

The battle of last season's top two in the npower Championship ebbed and flowed throughout the pair's first top-flight meeting since 1995.

Norwich dominated the early proceedings at Carrow Road and deservedly took the lead when skipper Russell Martin reacted quickest during a melee in the six-yard box.

Sunderland 1 Wigan 2

Substitute Franco Di Santo piled the pressure on Sunderland boss Steve Bruce with an injury-time winner at the Stadium of Light.

The striker capitalised on Wes Brown's error to snatch victory as the visitors staged an impressive fightback.

Sebastian Larsson had given the Black Cats an eighth-minute lead, but Jordi Gomez levelled from the spot before half-time to set the stage for the late drama.

Arsenal 1 Fulham 1

Thomas Vermaelen scored at both ends as Arsenal had to settle for a 1-1 draw with Fulham in their Barclays Premier League clash at the Emirates Stadium.

Vermaelen's own goal gifted the visitors, who had not won at Arsenal in 25 attempts, the lead on 65 minutes.

The Belgian redeemed himself when nodding in from close range with seven minutes left, but the Gunners could not conjure up a winner.