Middlesbrough V Cardiff & Liverpool V Arsenal

This is a quick summary of results that was placed on the two televised games yesterday between Middlesbrough and Cardiff as well as Liverpool V Arsenal. The preview can be seen here on this blog.

Cardiff City, as expected, defeated Middlesbrough 1-0 at the Riverside Stadium thanks to a Chris Burke free kick after 61 minutes of play in the Championship game.

Burke scored a crazy goal that for some reason was left by the Middlesbrough goalkeeper, Brad Jones and the rest of his defense to sail into the net ten yards from the touchline. The result leaves the former Premiership side mid table in 11th place, while the boys from Wales stay in the play off spot in 3rd place, two points from West Brom who occupy the final automatic promotion spot behind leaders Newcastle.

Liverpool meanwhile remain in poor form after a 2-1 loss to Arsenal at Anfield. The prediction of Liverpool stepping up to perform against the big boys of the Premier League proved to be incorrect as they were confidently beaten confidently thanks to an own goal from Glen Johnson and Arsenal's £15 million forward Andrey Arshavin (I think it would be cheaper to get a Brazilian than my Arshavin).

Dirk Kuyt scored an earlier goal for Liverpool until Johnson's error put Arsenal back in the game and Arshavin found a crack in the Liverpool defence to score the winner.

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