LONDON: Arsenal stayed in hunt for the Premier League title with 1-0 win over Wolves on a day when Chelsea beat title rivals Manchester United 2-1 on Saturday.

Arsenal closed the gap on the leaders to three points as Nicklas Bendtner's late goal clinched a 1-0 win over 10-man Wolves at the Emirates Stadium. After a dour first half, Wolves captain Karl Henry was shown a straight red card in the 65th minute for a lunge on Tomas Rosicky. That proved the turning point as Bendtner headed the winner in stoppage time from Bacary Sagna's cross.

"It keeps us in the title race," said Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger whose team's next mission is Tuesday's Champions League quarter-final return leg at Barcelona. "First it was important to forget next week's match against Barcelona and focus on Wolves. But we did it well — I think we had a good focus. We were a bit jaded physically but we kept going and we were serious, we didn't make a mistake at the back. In the end we got a deserved victory."

Manchester City stormed into fourth place with a 6-1 demolition of second bottom Burnley at Turf Moor. Roberto Mancini's side scored three times in the first seven minutes through Emmanuel Adebayor, Craig Bellamy and Carlos Tevez. Then Patrick Vieira scored his first goal for City, Adebayor added his second before the break and Vincent Kompany struck in the 58th minute. Steven Fletcher scored for Burnley late on but Mancini's men are now one point ahead of Tottenham in the race for the final Champions league place.

Darren Bent missed two penalties but still made his point to Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp as the Sunderland striker's double clinched a 3-1 win at the Stadium of Light that dented his old club's push to finish fourth. Redknapp once claimed even his wife would have taken a chance missed by Bent during his time at Spurs, but the England international got his revenge as he took just 36 seconds to get on the scoresheet.

Bent added his second goal in the 29th minute as he converted a penalty and should have had a hat-trick before half-time but saw another penalty saved by Heurelho Gomes. Incredibly Bent missed from spot again after the break and Peter Crouch reduced the deficit with a 72nd minute header, but Bolo Zenden's volley clinched the points in the 86th minute.

Aston Villa bounced back from their 7-1 defeat at Chelsea with a 1-0 win at Bolton thanks to Ashley Young's curling effort in the 11th minute. Stoke pushed Hull deeper into trouble with a 2-0 win at the Britannia Stadium, Ricardo Fuller and Liam Lawrence scoring the goals. Ten-man Portsmouth held on for a 0-0 draw at home to Blackburn after defender Anthony Van den Borre was sent off in the second half for a second yellow card.