Tight at the bottom - Burnley FC

The Premier League goes into the New Year with a real battle brewing at the bottom of the league which sees next to bottom Hull just four points behind 11^th place Everton.

Everton, courtesy of their 2-0 success over the Clarets at Goodison Park, were the only winners in the bottom half of the table and that enabled them to climb a few places to their highest position of the season.

Meanwhile, at the top, there were wins for all of the top seven, apart from Villa who lost their home game against Liverpool.

The results and stats are below as are the leading scorers, each club's disciplinary record and the next fixtures. Also included this week, as we go into the New Year, are the average league attendances for each club.

Monday 28^th December
Blackburn 2 Sunderland 2	Stoke 0 Birmingham 1
Chelsea 2 Fulham 1	Tottenham 2 West Ham 0
Everton 2 Burnley 0	Wolves 0 Manchester City 3
Tuesday 29^th December
Aston Villa 0 Liverpool 1	Bolton 2 Hull 2
Wednesday 30^th December
Manchester United 5 Wigan 0	Portsmouth 1 Arsenal 4

The Week's Stats
Biggest win	Manchester United 5-0 v Wigan (home)
Total goals scored	30 (16 home - 14 away)
Player scoring most goals 2	Darren Bent (Sunderland) Stephen Hunt (Hull) Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)
Highest Attendance	74,560 - Manchester United v Wigan
Lowest Attendance	20,404 - Portsmouth v Arsenal
Total Yellow Cards	36
Total Red Cards	1
Most cards in a game	Everton v Burnley (6Y 1R) - Howard Webb

The leading scorers (league only)
14	Jermain Defoe (Tottenham) Didier Drogba (Chelsea) Wayne Rooney (Manchester United)
13	Darren Bent (Sunderland)
12	Fernando Torres (Liverpool)
10	Louis Saha (Everton)
9	Cesc Fabregas (Arsenal) Carlos Tevez (Manchester City)
8	Gabriel Agbonlahor (Aston Villa)
7	Carlton Cole (West Ham) Hugo Rodallega (Wigan) Robin van Persie (Arsenal)
6	Emmanuel Adebayor (Manchester City) Andrei Arshavin (Arsenal) Craig Bellamy (Manchester City) Dimitar Berbatov (Manchester United) Kenwyne Jones (Sunderland) Ivan Klasnic (Bolton) Frank Lampard (Chelsea) Robbie Keane (Tottenham) Bobby Zamora (Fulham)

Hat Tricks (league only)
19^thAug	3 - Jermain Defoe - Hull v TOTTENHAM
12^th Sep	3 - Yossi Benayoun - LIVERPOOL v Burnley
26^th Sep	4 - Robbie Keane - TOTTENHAM v Burnley
26^th Sep	3 - Fernando Torres - LIVERPOOL v Hull
31^st Oct	3 - Aruna Dindane - PORTSMOUTH v Wigan
21^st Nov	5 - Jermain Defoe - TOTTENHAM v Wigan
28^th Nov	3 - Wayne Rooney - Portsmouth v MANCHESTER UNITED

Disciplinary Record (all domestic games)
Club	Y	R	Club	Y	R
Arsenal	39	0	Liverpool	27	4
Aston Villa	42	2	Manchester City	30	2
Birmingham	38	1	Manchester United	38	4
Blackburn	38	1	Portsmouth	47	2
Bolton	39	2	Stoke	43	1
Burnley	34	3	Sunderland	48	4
Chelsea	30	2	Tottenham	32	1
Everton	34	1	West Ham	47	3
Fulham	25	1	Wigan	26	0
Hull	43	2	Wolves	39	2

Average Attendances (league only)
Avge	Club	High	Low
74,866	Manchester United	75,169	73,709
59,882	Arsenal	60,103	59,103
46,141	Manchester City	47,348	42,745
43,403	Liverpool	44,392	41,116
41,383	Chelsea	41,836	40,137
40,551	Sunderland	47,327	34,821
37,780	Aston Villa	42,788	32,917
36,943	Everton	39,652	33,660
35,803	Tottenham	36,031	35,318
33,335	West Ham	34,980	30,024
28,134	Wolves	29,023	26,668
27,216	Stoke	27,500	26,728
25,977	Blackburn	29,660	23,110
24,345	Fulham	25,700	21,414
24,267	Birmingham	28,958	19,922
24,089	Hull	24,909	22,822
21,438	Bolton	23,284	17,849
20,344	Burnley	21,761	18,397
18,929	Portsmouth	20,821	17,510
18,463	Wigan	20,447	16,172

The Next Fixtures
Tuesday 5^th January
Stoke v Fulham	.
Wednesday 6^th January
Arsenal v Bolton	.
Saturday 9^th January
Arsenal v Everton	Hull v Chelsea (12:45)
Birmingham v Manchester United (17:30)	Sunderland v Bolton
Burnley v Stoke	Wigan v Aston Villa
Fulham v Portsmouth	.
Sunday 10^th January
Liverpool v Totenham (16:00)	West Ham v Wolves (13:30)
Monday 11^th January
Manchester City v Blackburn (20:00)	.