Gameweek 12, EPL: As it Happenned...

New Delhi: Welcome to the live coverage of Saturday's EPL matches of Gameweek 12. 

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GOAL: Arsenal 1-2 Man United (Olivier Giroud)

A defensive error and a clinical counter-attack have seen United score.

Rio Ferdinand feels David de Gea is the player United should thank.

The @ManUtd players will be buying @D_DeGea a couple of drinks on the way back up north im sure! Impecable — Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) November 22, 2014

Ashley Young is subbed. Darren Fletcher sent on. 

GOAL: Arsenal 0-2 Manchester United (Wayne Rooney) Goal assisted by Angel di Maria.

GOAL Arsenal 0-2 Man Utd (85 mins). Wayne Rooney gives the visitors a two-goal cushion with a fine finish on the counter-attack #ARSMUN — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

Substitution: Olivier Giroud replaces Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal)

James Wilson replaces Robin van Persie (Man United)

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PHOTO Arsenal are searching for an equaliser after Gibbs' own goal. They trail Man Utd 1-0 with 18 mins to play pic.twitter.com/NsAMuvJLeU — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

Some big players haven't contributed much in the game.

David de Gea, Alexis Sanchez and Chamberlain have been the only and best players from both teams tonight.

SUBSTITUTE: Emiliano Martinez comes on for his Premier League debut, replacing the injured Szczesny for Arsenal. Man Utd lead 1-0 (60 mins)

GOAL: Arsenal 0-1 Man United (Kieran Gibbs, og)

GOAL Arsenal 0-1 Man Utd (56 mins). Kieran Gibbs directs Antonio Valencia's shot into his own net after Wojciech Szczesny's poor clearance — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

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Substitute: Jack Wilshere is replaced by Santi Cazorla.

Arsenal have started the second half really well and United are again in problem. The team ridden with injuries have looked clueless and there hasn't been anything for Van Persie and Rooney to do. 

Half time: Arsenal 0-0 Manchester United.

HT: Arsenal 0 United 0. The hosts have been well on top but the Reds have looked threatening on the break. #mufclive pic.twitter.com/G8255UP9bk — Manchester United (@ManUtd) November 22, 2014

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Rio ferdinand sharing some thoughts on Twitter.

Jack has to be more clinical there for AFC....he scores more goals & he goes up a notch as a player....all the natural ability is there... — Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) November 22, 2014

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Arsenal have been the better side so far. They have looked lively. For United the injury situation worsens. Luke Shaw becomes the 40th United player to get injured this season.

SUBSTITUTION: Luke Shaw limps off with an ankle injury to be replaced by Ashley Young. Arsenal 0-0 Man Utd

Meanwhile, former United defender Rio Ferdinand predicts a 2-1 win for United, and so does West Indies cricketer Chris Gayle who feels Wayne Rooney will be the crux for the Red Devils. 

My prediction today for @QPR vs NUFC didn't go as well as I imagined....let's hope my 2-1 @ManUtd win prediction goes a bit better... — Rio Ferdinand (@rioferdy5) November 22, 2014

Prediction: RVP scores, Rooney terrorises Arsenal mystery central defence, Wellbeck sent off, United win 2-1. #AFCvMUFC @piersmorgan — Chris Gayle (@henrygayle) November 22, 2014

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Arsenal's Aaron Ramsey to play his 200th match today for the London club.

Congratulations to @aaronramsey who makes his 200th #Arsenal appearance today #AFCvMUFC pic.twitter.com/jBere8lifS — Arsenal FC (@Arsenal) November 22, 2014

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Meanwhile, as the EPL table stands so far. Top four!

AS IT STANDS @NUFC are in the top four, will they stay there? Follow Arsenal v Man Utd: http://t.co/5vCtFIZrwN pic.twitter.com/Ke1vGxEO2m — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

Now the big big game at the Emirates in London. 

Half-an-hour until kick-off in north London. What are your score predictions for today's big game? #mufclive pic.twitter.com/mrHGRNAopc — Manchester United (@ManUtd) November 22, 2014

Full time scores: Chelsea 2-0 West Brom, Stoke 1-2 Burnley, Man City 2-1 Swansea, Everton 2-1 West Ham, Leicester 0-0 Sunderland, Newcastle 1-0 QPR.

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All over at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea win and keep their unbeaten run to 20 games in all competitions. Leicester and Sunderland play out a 0-0 draw. Newcastle win again and move upto 5th in the table. City strengthen their grip on third place after a 2-1 win against Swansea. Meanwhile, Burnley get their second successive win and Everton too push up the table.

Nearing dying minutes here and will we get more goals?

Substitution for Chelsea. Drogba replaces Costa.

GOAL! Newcastle 1-0 QPR (Sissoko) Ameobi on the counter-attack finds Sissoko who lashes on goal.

Goal! Everton 2-1 West Ham (Osman) The veteran on his 400th appearance for the Toffees, gives the hosts the lead for the second time. Assisted by Samuel Eto'o

Team line-ups for Arsenal vs Manchester United.

Arsenal: Szczesny, Chambers, Mertesacker, Monreal, Gibbs, Arteta, Ramsey, Sanchez, Wilshere, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Welbeck. Subs: Rosicky, Podolski, Giroud, Cazorla, Flamini, Martinez, Bellerin.

Man Utd: De Gea, Smalling, McNair, Blackett, Shaw, Carrick, Valencia, Fellaini, Rooney, Di Maria, van Persie. Subs: Mata, Januzaj, Lindegaard, Young, Ander Herrera, Fletcher, Wilson.

Referee: Mike Dean

GOAL! Manchester City 2-1 Swansea (Yaya Toure) Toure lashes on goal after getting feeded from a through-ball. City are up at home. (Goal assisted by Fernandinho)

MATCH SHOT: Celebrations for Yaya Toure's goal! #mcfc pic.twitter.com/wbMJfirt1G — Manchester City FC (@MCFC) November 22, 2014

GOAL! Everton 1-1 West Ham (Zarate) Zarate who just came off the bench, dragged his side back into the game. He cut inside from the left, played a nice one-two and his shot took a deflection off Jagielka before it reached the back off the net.

We are back to kick-off here and Chelsea are already in top gear just like the first half. Matic and Terry have both missed crucial chances to add to the score-line.

Chelsea's Diego Costa is on fire and has scored his 11th goal of the season so far.

PHOTO Costa opens the scoring for @chelseafc with his 11th #BPL goal of the season before Hazard added a 2nd #CHEWBA pic.twitter.com/RjkFaMwM9L — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

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Half-time here at gameweek 12 in all the matches. 

Diego Costa and Oscar are both denied by West Brom's Ben Foster in a matter of seconds. Chelsea are all over WBA. Will it be a goal-fest?

Substitution: Newcastle's Ryan Taylor is injured and is replaced by Yoan Gouffran.

Goal! Stoke 1-2 Burnley (Jon Walters) Comeback is on for Stoke with Bojan’s superb cross from the right which was met by the head of Walters.

Goal! Everton 1-0 West Ham United (Romelu Lukaku) He scored from Barkley's deflected shot as it looked off-side. But the referee gives a goal.

PHOTO Everton are 1-0 up at home to West Ham thanks to @RomeluLukaku9's 5th #BPL goal of the season #EVEWHU pic.twitter.com/FxDvIsyPIv — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

Red Card! Claudio Yacob who made his debut today for West Brom in EPL this season is sent off after making a two-footed challenge on Diego Costa.

Eden Hazard scores! Chelsea 2-0 West Brom.

Another GOAL! Manchester City 1-1 Swansea (Stevan Jovetic) Yaya Toure lays the ball off to Jesus Navas on the right, who puts the ball on for Stevan Jovetic to sweep home from close range.

Chelsea are all over West Brom and chances are coming in a galore. Costa misses two chances after his goal.

Burnley have gone 2-0 up against Stoke and it is all happening fast. Danny Ings with both the goals there. Stoke 0-2 Burnley.

Swansea have taken the lead against Manchester City with Wilfred Bony scoring the goal. Man City 0-1 Swansea. Bony picked out Dyer's pass, and he takes the ball down on his chest and he puts his side into the lead.

PHOTO Bony celebrates his 5th #BPL goal of the season before Jovetic pulled one back for Man City #MCISWA pic.twitter.com/FLDX7so9Gx — Premier League (@premierleague) November 22, 2014

Well we have today's first goal with Chelsea's Diego Costa scoring a neat goal. It's Chelsea 1-0 West Brom. A cross from the left finds Costa. The visitor's defence all over playing for offiside but it ain’t happening and Costa does the rest.

Chelsea vs West Brom: Inside nine minutes and John Terry's left footed shot was saved by Ben Foster. Close chance before Sessengon has a shot that goes wide off Chelsea's post. 

The players are out and we are ready for live kick-off. Remember six teams playing today all at the same time before the big game between Arsenal and Man United.

After a 13-day break, the Barclays Premier League returns on Saturday... http://t.co/IPP8OkbK95 pic.twitter.com/0lRr7F68hr — Premier League (@premierleague) November 19, 2014

West Ham United players train ahead of their match against Everton at Goodisson Park.

VINE: Kick off is not far away now! #WHUFC #COYI https://t.co/vGETbyfHwY — West Ham United FC (@whufc_official) November 22, 2014

West Ham United's Kevin Nolan shares his thoughts ahead of the match against Everton.

NOLAN: "If we stick to our gameplan, I'm sure we've got a great chance to get the result we need." #EVEWHU — West Ham United FC (@whufc_official) November 22, 2014

West Brom's Chris Baird and Claudio Yacob are making their debut EPL appearances for the season today.

Chris Baird and Claudio Yacob are handed their first league starts of the season here at @chelseafc #COYB #CHEWBA pic.twitter.com/JtToNnSsbB — West Bromwich Albion (@WBAFCofficial) November 22, 2014

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Stats of the day: Leon Osman is making his 400th appearance for Everton today.

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Swansea City meanwhile are out on the field for the practice session.

The @swansofficial side are the first team out for warm-ups this afternoon. #cityvswans https://t.co/Ts6ouccfJj — Manchester City FC (@MCFC) November 22, 2014

By the way as we are minutes away from kick-off, Chelsea's Gary Cahill, shares his thought ahead of the match.

.@GaryJCahill: 'We expect nothing different today, we know it’s going to be a hard game but we’re looking forward to it.' #CFC — Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) November 22, 2014

Team News of today's matches: Chelsea vs West Brom 

Chelsea line-up v West Brom: Courtois; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry (c), Azpilicueta; Matic, Fabregas; Willian, Oscar, Hazard; D Costa. #CFC — Chelsea FC (@chelseafc) November 22, 2014

Albion v @chelseafc: Foster, Wisdom, Dawson, Lescott, Yacob, Baird, Gardner, Brunt, Dorrans, Sessegnon, Berahino. #COYB #CHEWBA — West Bromwich Albion (@WBAFCofficial) November 22, 2014

Everton vs West Ham United:

Everton team (to play West Ham): Howard, Coleman, Hibbert, Jagielka, Distin, McCarthy, Osman, Barkley, Mirallas, Naismith, Lukaku. #EFCvWHU — Everton (@Everton) November 22, 2014

TEAMS: #WHUFC Adrian, Reid, Cresswell, Nolan (c), Tomkins, Carroll, Noble, Jenkinson, Collins, Amalfitano, Cole #EVEWHU #COYI — West Ham United FC (@whufc_official) November 22, 2014

Leicester vs Sunderland:

Sunderland: Pantilimon, O’Shea, Brown, Vergini, Reveillere, Cattermole, Gomez, Larsson, Wickham, Johnson, Fletcher. — Sunderland AFC (@SunderlandAFC) November 22, 2014

City: Schmeichel, De Laet, Morgan (c), Wasilewski, Konchesky, Schlupp, Cambiasso, James, Mahrez, Vardy, Ulloa. #LeiSun — Leicester City (@OfficialFOXES) November 22, 2014

Manchester City vs Swansea:

TEAM NEWS @MCFC: Hart, Zabaleta, Kompany (C), Demichelis, Clichy, Navas, Fernandinho, Toure, Nasri, Jovetic, Aguero #cityvswans — Manchester City FC (@MCFC) November 22, 2014

#Swans starting line-up v @MCFC: Fabianski, Rangel, Bartley, Williams (C), Taylor, Ki, Carroll, Sigurdsson, Dyer, Montero, Bony. — Swansea City FC (@SwansOfficial) November 22, 2014

Newcastle vs QPR:

#NUFC v @QPRFC (4-3-3): Krul; Janmaat, Williamson, Dummett, Haidara; R.Taylor, Sissoko (c), Colback; Cabella, Perez, Ameobi. — Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) November 22, 2014

BREAKING #NEWvQPR TEAM NEWS: Today's @QPRFC side to face @NUFC... pic.twitter.com/Gde466LTNy — QPR FC (@QPRFC) November 22, 2014

Stoke vs Burnley:

#scfc Starting XI vs Burnley: Begovic; Bardsley, Shawcross (c), Cameron, Muniesa; Nzonzi, Sidwell; Walters, Bojan, Moses; Diouf — Stoke City FC (@stokecity) November 22, 2014

Confirmed #BFC starting XI: Heaton; Ward, Shackell (c), Duff, Trippier; Boyd, Jones, Marney, Kightly; Barnes, Ings #ClaretsLIVE — Burnley FC (@BurnleyOfficial) November 22, 2014

A big day here as seven matches will be played today in Super Saturday. Six of the matches are starting at 8:30 pm IST whereas Arsenal vs Manchester United will kick-off at 11:30 pm. 

Today's matches (8:30 pm IST): Chelsea vs West Brom, Everton vs West Ham, Leicester vs Sunderland, Manchester City vs Swansea, Newcastle vs QPR, Stoke vs Burnley.

(11:30 pm IST): Arsenal vs Man United.

Today's matches provide extreme entertaining packages as the results will be a big factor in setting the tempo in a packed table. Chelsea who haven't had best of results against WBA recently, will look to consolidate their unbeaten run so far atop. Diego Costa is fit and Mourinho will hope his tactics are spot-on in an entertainig game at Stamford Bridge. 

Manchester City will hope to get back to winning ways after a dismal runs of results except the Manchester derby where they prevailed 1-0. They face a positive looking Swansea, who beat Arsenal on matchday 11. Everton who have made a tough start will take on a confident West Ham side. 

Focus then comes on the big game of the day which sees Arsenal take on Man United. Louis van gaal's injury ridden side need a win desperately with Arsenal hoping to take advantage of their opponent's leaky inexperienced defence. All eyes will be on Danny Welbeck and the return of Olivier Giroud. Arsenal last beat United in 2011 and search for a rare victory in three years.