New Year's Day football photos

Before Tuesday's games, fans and players pay their respects to Motherwell's Phil O'Donnell who died on Saturday

Arsenal 2-0 West Ham: It takes the home side just two minutes to take the lead through Croatian striker Eduardo

Emmanuel Adebayor doubles his side's lead after rounding Robert Green and scoring from an almost impossible angle

It is an unhappy return to Arsenal for Freddie Ljungberg who limps off injured as his side loses at the Emirates Stadium

Man Utd 1-0 Birmingham: Carlos Tevez nets his 10th goal of the season to put the Red Devils in front at Old Trafford

Birmingham's Sebastian Larsson tries his luck from a free-kick as the visitors search for an equaliser

Man Utd's match-winner is substituted late on with an ankle injury and is carried away at the final whistle

Fulham 1-2 Chelsea: Roy Hodgson takes charge of the hosts for the first time against their west London rivals

Hodgson's reign gets off to a great start as Danny Murphy opens the scoring from the penalty spot after just 10 minutes

The Blues draw level early in the second half when Alex's header back across goal is nodded home by Saloman Kalou

Five minutes later Ballack scores the winner slotting a penalty past Antti Niemi to keep Chelsea in the title race

Aston Villa 2-1 Tottenham: Olof Mellberg breaks the deadlock at Villa Park with a header four minutes before half-time

Jermain Defoe produces a wonderful volleyed finish to draw Spurs level with 11 minutes remaining

But with five minutes left on the clock Martin Laursen heads home to give Villa all three points

Reading 0-2 Portsmouth: Ibrahima Sonko's afternoon lasts about four minutes as he sees red for a foul on Benjani

But Niko Kranjcar lets Reading off the hook as he smacks the resulting penalty against the post

Reading do not escape for long as Sol Campbell bundles in the opener at the Madejski Stadium

John Utaka scores Pompey's winner an hour later, outsprinting Nicky Shorey and rounding Marcus Hahnemann to score

Middlesbrough 0-2 Everton: Andrew Johnson fires the visitors into the lead 12 minutes after half-time

And James McFadden seals the win for the Toffees with just five minutes later following a neat one-two with Johnson

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