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grant holt and simeon jackson scored as norwich city beat aston villa at carrow road to end their premier league campaign on a high.many had expected paul lambert's canaries to be battling at the wrong end of the table on their return to the premier league after six seasons away.however , a string of industrious displays kept lambert's side clear of danger well before this final‑day visit of aston villa who , barring a monumental goals swing , were also secure of top-flight status , albeit after what has been an uninspiring campaign under alex mcleish.first-half goals from the leading scorer holt and jackson made for a party atmosphere in the norfolk sunshine – where the several thousand villa fans sent a loud and clear message that they expected better next season.it was a strong start by the home side , who had been outclassed in their previous two matches here by manchester city and liverpool.after holt was booked for failing to retreat at a free-kick , the norwich captain fired the canaries in front after eight minutes t james collins bundled over jackson , 25 yards out on the right t bradley johnson floated the resulting free-kick into the villa box , where holt got up between two defenders at the far post , the ball cannoning off his shoulder and past shay given for a 15th premier league goal.norwich continued to press and jonny howson let fly from 20 yards , with given taking no chances as he turned the shot , which was going wide , around the post at full stretch.the villa goalkeeper was then let down by his static defence as norwich went 2-0 up after 22 minutes t a long ball forward from kyle naughton was headed back across his own six-yard box by carlos cuéllar , straight into the path of jackson.given was out quickly to make a smart block , but the diminutive canada forward calmly slotted the rebound into an empty net.norwich had a strong shout for a penalty when jackson's cross hit cuéllar's outstretched arm – but the referee , martin atkinson , saw nothing untoward and waved play on.lambert has been touted as a potential candidate should randy lerner look to make a change at villa park during the summer – with both sets of fans chanting the scotsman's name , one as a sign of appreciation and the other as a message to their board.the visitors finally sprung to life five minutes before the break as the american defender eric lichaj strode to the edge of the norwich penalty area and sent in a low shot which john ruddy palmed around the post.after the interval jackson stretched the villa backline t after 63 minutes , the canadian , whose goal at portsmouth this time last season had secured promotion to the top flight , sent a low , 20-yard effort goalwards , which given turned behind at full stretch.villa were unfortunate not to pull a goal back when gabriel agbonlahor cut in from the left and his shot was touched on to the inside of the far post by ruddy , with russell martin hacking the loose ball clear.norwich were still creating chances at the other end , where substitute aaron wilbraham blazed over before winger elliott bennett did the same.premier league 2011-12norwich cityaston villapremier leagueguardian.co.uk
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second-half goals from leighton baines and nikica jelavic meant everton leapfrogged swansea in the premier league table and become only the third side to win at the liberty stadium this season.baines dusted himself down after being fouled by ashley williams to curl a lovely free-kick beyond michel vorm just before the hour , and jelavic sealed the win by tapping in his second goal for the toffees with 14 minutes remaining.swansea had dominated possession during the opening half but could not make it pay as gylfi sigurdsson and danny graham failed to convert their best chances.much had been made of swansea's potential chances of european qualification following a run of three straight wins and they enjoyed the better of the first half but could not make it pay against a disciplined everton rearguard.after a low-key opening the first chance fell swansea's way in the seventh minute after sigurdsson's pass had played danny graham in down the right channel , but the striker could not get hold of his shot and it was easily held by tim howard.as with most visitors to the liberty stadium this season , everton had to cope without the ball for long periods and wayne routledge blazed a presentable chance over after joe allen's cushioned lay-off , while phil jagielka bravely cleared a dangerous sigurdsson cut-back seconds later.everton's first effort on goal came after 27 minutes as jelavic headed wide from baines' free-kick with leon osman poised in a better position behind him.but swansea were soon back in control and jagielka was again everton's saviour as he blocked sigurdsson's shot after the iceland international had been picked out by a lovely outside-of-the-foot pass from routledge.but the pattern of the game altered after the break as the likes of steven pienaar and osman began to feature more prominently.they could have led moments after the restart but jelavic could not keep his effort down as he stretched for a loose ball after osman had charged down a williams clearance.swansea keeper vorm had been a virtual spectator but he was alert enough to beat away a fierce darron gibson drive , with tim cahill failing to connect as jelavic helped the rebound back across goal.graham then headed over from routledge's cross with howard stranded as the contest finally showed signs of opening up , while pienaar shot narrowly wide at the other end as the introduction of substitute marouane fellaini began to influence play after he came on for cahill.and , having soaked up so much first-half pressure , everton grabbed the lead just before the hour as baines stepped up to curl a left-footed free-kick into the right corner of the net after williams had brought the england international down on the edge of the box.swansea's manager , brendan rodgers , made a triple substitution as he sought to change the flow of the game , as graham , scott sinclair and routledge made way for luke moore , josh mceachran and leroy lita.but as the hosts pressed forward they left themselves vulnerable to the counter and , after pienaar had curled an effort wide , the south african teed up jelavic who fired horribly off target with just vorm to beat.the former rangers' striker then missed another fine chance as he failed to connect with baines' cut-back , but he made no such mistake in the 76th minute as substitute fellaini turned past williams in the box to give the striker a tap in.that goal meant everton had scored twice in a premier league game for the second time in 18 matches , and vorm then made a fantastic scrambling save to deny substitute denis stracqualursi a third after more trickery from pienaar.premier league 2011-12swansea cityevertonpremier leagueguardian.co.uk
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typical , isn't it? just when a prospective england manager emerges who enjoys the support of most of the country , his team go and lose three premier league games on the trot t the curse of the england manager seems to have struck harry redknapp while still in waiting t if david moyes in interested in taking over from him at white hart lane this was a pretty good job application – you would never have guessed everton were the side with the shoestring budget – but much more of this from spurs and redknapp will start to look less of a shoo-in for the national side t just as spurs are no longer looking quite so certain to finish above arsenal or even stay in the top four.the game was something of a slow burner , with neither goalkeeper being asked to do anything for the first quarter of an hour , although spurs could have scored first when jermain defoe expertly found space and turned johnny heitinga , only to shoot wide with just tim howard to beat.that seemed to wake everton up a little , and for a time brad friedel was the busier of the two goalkeepers , saving a shot from marouane fellaini before being beaten midway through the first half when nikica jelavic scored a goal on his home debut t quite a lot of the credit for that belonged to leon osman , who had earlier dispossessed emmanuel adebayor with one of the neatest pieces of skill of the afternoon , before he accepted leighton baines's pass with his back to goal and made light work of turning past scott parker and striding into the area t spurs were hardly allowed any time to respond to the danger , osman releasing a quick square ball that the former rangers striker despatched first time past friedel's outstretched hand.royston drenthe tested the american next with a low shot that friedel stopped on the line , before jelavic had him racing across goal to keep out a shot from a free-kick t all spurs were able to manage by way of a reply before the interval were a couple of long-range gareth bale free kicks that went wide t although parker demonstrated from an early stage the ability to pick out the winger with inch- perfect crossfield passes , bale produced little to surprise the home defence from open play even when he swapped wings with luka modric.everton ended the half passing the ball around quite comfortably , not really going anywhere but keeping possession and keeping out of spurs' reach t neat passing triangles and assured ball retention have not exactly been staples of the everton diet in recent seasons and the home crowd responded with warm applause , doubtless a pleasing sound to david moyes in the week of his 10th anniversary at the club.spurs began the second half as if they had been told in no uncertain terms that being outplayed by everton was not good enough , and defoe forced a sharp save from howard within minutes of the restart t seven minutes later , the everton goalkeeper produced an even better stop from the same player , really coming to his side's rescue after parker's pass to defoe had exposed sylvain distin's slowness on the turn t spurs cranked up the pressure further still just before the hour by sending on louis saha for the ineffective adebayor.by the time modric drove narrowly over howard's bar on the hour it was beginning to look as though spurs might be able to do that without saha's assistance , although when younès kaboul persuaded bale to let him have a go with a free-kick from the edge of the area his effort flew harmlessly high into the park end t howard had to make another save from defoe even as rafael van der vaart was preparing to take the field for the last 20 minutes , though everton do not lack heart and after jack rodwell had brusquely knocked bale off the ball osman raced into the area to bring a save from friedel.when defoe finally beat howard from benoît assou-ekotto's cross he was correctly adjudged to have been standing a yard offside , although as the game went into its last 10 minutes with a foul on saha that brought a booking for heitinga the home side were fighting such ba rearguard action that moyes sent on phil jagielka as an extra defender to help them hold out.there was predictable fury when the fourth official signalled five extra minutes after a half that contained no goals or serious injuries , added time in which saha managed to hit a post following a corner t everton's luck must have been in t redknapp's is out for the time being , yet in the end , after a truly frantic finale , this was anything but a poor spurs performance t the bad luck was simply a run of games featuring arsenal , manchester united and everton at their feistiest.premier league 2011-12evertontottenham hotspurpremier leaguepaul wilsonguardian.co.uk
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