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Liverpool 2-0 Stoke: Seventh take on tenth at Anfield, but the early focus is on Andy Carroll. Liverpool’s £35m record signing, a late signing on transfer deadline day, is paraded on the pitch before kick-off

Liverpool take the lead shortly after half-time. Steven Gerrard’s shot bounces off various Stoke players gathered in the box, before dropping to Raul Meireles, who smashes the ball in left-footed from just inside the area

Substitute Luis Suarez, signed from Ajax for £22.7m on deadline day, is making his Liverpool debut and he makes it one to remember when he rounds the keeper and slots home to wrap up all three points for the Reds

Birmingham 2-2 Manchester City: City take the lead within five minutes at St Andrews when David Silva jinks his way through the Birmingham defence and feeds Carlos Tevez, who evades further tackles and slides home

Birmingham equalise when David Bentley’s whipped low free-kick evades the whole Manchester City defence and finds the net. Nikola Zigic wheels away in celebrations, but there’s questions as to whether he got a touch

Aleksandar Koralov curls in a free-kick from 25-yards out to put his side back in front, but in the 77th minute Kevin Phillips is fouled in the area, allowing Craig Gardner to step up and give Birmingham a share of the spoils

Blackpool 1-3 West Ham: Bottom side West Ham are looking to move off the foot of the table. Victor Obinna sets them on course at Bloomfield Road when his shot squirms out of Blackpool keeper Richard Kingson’s hands

Kingson nearly redeems himself when he makes two excellent saves from Obinna, but his parry falls to West Ham debutant Robbie Keane, signed on loan from Tottenham on Sunday, whose skewed shot finds the net

Blackpool pulled one back when Robert Green let in Charlie Adam’s corner at his near post but two minutes later Obinna’s stunning strike on the stroke of half-time secured a win that moves West Ham off the bottom

Blackburn 0-1 Tottenham: Peter Crouch puts his side ahead at Ewood Park with only three minutes on the clock when he outjumps Christopher Samba to meet Rafael van der Vaart’s precision cross

With no more goals forthcoming in a scrappy second half, new Blackburn owner Anuradha Desai is forced to watch her team slip to defeat. Tottenham meanwhile close the gap on fourth-placed Chelsea to three points

Bolton 1-0 Wolves: The two sides meet at the Reebok stadium hoping to break out of poor runs of form. There’s little sign of that in a drab first-half, although Matt Jarvis sends a shot a whisker wide of the post

All signs are pointing to 0-0, but minutes from time Ronald Zubar’s horrendous backpass is picked up by debutant Daniel Sturridge, on as a substitute, who smashes home to send Wolves to the bottom of the table

Fulham 1-0 Newcastle: Fulham want to put space between them and the relegation zone, while Newcastle could make the Europa League places. Neither side makes much progress in a first-half to forget at Craven Cottage

Damien Duff breaks the deadlock in the 67th minute when he picks up Danny Murphy’s long-ball and fires past Steve Harper for the only goal of the game. Fulham move up to 12th, two places behind Newcastle

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