This match featured in our Performance of the Day

Want to know what it feels like to have a thousand people jerk their knees at you at once? Just search #MoyesOut on Twitter.

Pressure continues to build on the new Man United manager. He will have won a few brownie points yesterday with the announcement that wonderkid Adnan Januzaj signed a new contract with the club, but all of that grace will be undone by several poor substitution choices in this fixture.

After dominating the first half, Moyes made a number of odd switches. He first took the lively Nani off for the ponderous Ryan Giggs. Then, he messed up his team’s formation by switching defensive midfielder Fellaini for forward Welbeck. THEN he decided it’d be a good idea to sacrifice his attacking intent in the final stages of the match by swapping Wayne Rooney for another defender.

Less than sixty seconds after this final change, Southampton had equalised from a set peice. #Oops.

West Ham were outplayed at home by a very fluid and confident Man City side, but the Hammers gave a good account of themselves with a fearless display that produced a number of good attacking moves.

Sam Allardyce lined West Ham up in the same striker-less formation that provided the shock win at Spurs a fortnight ago. It didn’t quite work as well for them here, with the individual brilliance of City’s expensive players shining through.

Another golazo from the Dutchman (following this utterly ludicrous goal in the Europa League).

His bodyshape and aim were so perfect, he barely needed any power behind the ball, struck sweetly enough to dip and curve up and beyond the keeper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JXO_T5drJI

The new Sunderland manager Gus Poyet apparently held off on taking the job for a couple of weeks so to avoid his first match in charge being against Manchester United or Liverpool.

Well… That sure worked out great for you Gus.

Swansea are always a team that tend to dominate possession at home, and after a scrappy first half they settled into a rhythm. Three goals came in rapid succession for the Swans, absolutely sucking the life out of Sunderland and their new manager and ensuring the Mackems remain without a win this season.

One of the oddest goals of the week, and one that should never have been allowed to stand. Samuel Eto'o knocks the ball out of the goalkeeper’s hands whilst the keeper has control of it, and in the ruck that follows Eden Hazard manages to put the ball in the net.

The rules of the game state that a goalkeeper cannot be challenged for the ball whilst he is handling it. This includes when the keeper is bouncing the ball or throwing the ball into the air.

Steven Pienaar scores with his first touch of the ball, less than 20 seconds after coming off the bench.

It was an incredibly fast, direct move from Everton helped by the strength in the air of Romelu Lukaku and some very fast passing.

David Luiz has many great qualities as a player. He’s skillful, powerful and accurate in both passing and shooting.

Unfortunately for Chelsea, he doesn’t possess the greatest powers of concentration. Seeing the loose ball coming his way he makes the odd decision to leave it to his goalkeeper instead of doing the obvious thing and clearing it. Y'know, kicking the ball. That thing your job is, David? Petr Cech can’t get to the ball in time and it’s an easy chip in for Jordan Mutch.

You won’t see many better goals in any match this weekend. Fantastic crisp, rapid interplay between Wilshere, Olivier Giroud and Mesut Ozil confounds the Norwich backline and allows Wilshere to slip through to goal almost unchallenged.

Manger Arsene Wenger was flush with praise for the move:

It had combinations and speed which you would always like your team to play with. This one was a mixture of technical quality, speedy thinking, quick reaction and as well being calm in front of goal. It had nearly everything you want to have, it was a great goal… It was certainly one of the best goals, one I enjoyed the most because it was a team goal.

A clear penalty and red card for the defender. Luis Suarez made a sneaky run across him. Suarez was clean through on goal, and Mbiwa saw no other option than to dive wildly across his back and pull him to the floor.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x165svq_newcastle-united-1-1-liverpool-sent-off-mapou-yanga-mbiwa-and-goal-steven-gerrard_sport#from=embediframe
By denying a clear goalscoring opportunity, Mbiwa earns a straight red card.

Due to the sending off, Liverpool came out in the second half and utterly dominated every facet of the match. Newcastle seemed practically camped out in their own penalty area, and it felt like a matter of if, not when, Liverpool would go ahead.

That was until 22 year-old Paul Dummett snuck in at the back post and punished Liverpool for ball-watching from a cross. Not a bad way to announce yourself on only his second league appearance for Newcastle.