Having secured a draw, "Man Utd" falls behind "Chelsea" © EuroFootball.com

Eight matches took place on Saturday in the English championship - the "Premier League" leader "Man Utd" who won the Manchester derby increased their advantage to 9 points, while surprise of the season "Portsmouth" climbed to third place after another victory at home, trying not to fall behind are "Liverpool" and "Bolton" clubs, who achieved crushing victories with equal results at their home ground, impressively defeated was also "Tottenham", "Newcastle" achieved their second victory of the season away, and two matches ended in a draw.

Statistics of Saturday's matches:

"Man Utd" 3 - 1 "Man City" 6` [1 - 0] Wayne Rooney 45` [2 - 0] Louis Saha 72` [2 - 1] Hatem Trabelsi 84` [3 - 1] Cristiano Ronaldo

90' Bernardo Corradi ("Man City") was sent off

"Watford" 0 - 0 "Reading"

"Portsmouth" 2 - 0 "Everton" 14` [1 - 0] Matthew Taylor 26` [2 - 0] Nwankwo Kanu

"Blackburn" 1 - 3 "Newcastle" 31` [0 - 1] Obafemi Martins 35` [0 - 2] Steven Taylor 47` [1 - 2] Morten Gamst Pedersen 90` [1 - 3] Obafemi Martins

41' Stephane Henchoz ("Blackburn") was sent off

"Tottenham" 5 - 1 "Charlton" 31` [1 - 0] Dimitar Berbatov 33` [2 - 0] Teemu Tainio 42` [2 - 1] Michael Dawson (own goal) 55` [3 - 1] Steed Malbranque 63` [4 - 1] Jermaine Defoe 66` [5 - 1] Dimitar Berbatov

"Liverpool" 4 - 0 "Fulham" 54` [1 - 0] Steven Gerrard 60` [2 - 0] Jamie Carragher 66` [3 - 0] Luis Garcia 90` [4 - 0] Mark Gonzalez

"Middlesbrough" 1 - 1 "Wigan" 24` [0 - 1] Henri Camara (penalty) 66` [1 - 1] Yakubu Aiyegbeni

"Bolton" 4 - 0 "West Ham" 18` [1 - 0] Kevin Davies 51` [2 - 0] Kevin Davies 76` [3 - 0] El Hadji Diouf 78` [4 - 0] Nicolas Anelka