Carlos Bocanegra scored in second-half injury time and Fulham beat Tottenham 1-0 in the Premier League on Tuesday, while Wigan jumped over Arsenal into fifth place with a 1-1 draw against Everton.
Tottenham finished the match with 10 men after defender Michael Dawson was sent off in the 72nd minute for a second yellow card. Bocanegra headed in a Simon Elliott free kick in the 91st minute.
Tottenham goalkeeper Paul Robinson made three outstanding saves to deny Fulham striker Brian McBride.
Chelsea leads the league with 62 points, followed by Manchester United with 48, Liverpool with 44, Tottenham with 41, Wigan with 38 and Arsenal with 37.
Wigan and Everton both finished with 10 men at the JJB Stadium.
Everton striker Duncan Ferguson had played only seven minutes before drawing a red card from referee Mike Dean for punching Paul Scharner in the stomach in the 80th minute. Three minutes later, Wigan striker Jason Roberts also was sent off for elbowing David Weir in the face.
Everton took the lead in the ninth minute when Wigan's David Thompson scored an own goal. Paul Scharner leveled for Wigan in the 45th.
At The Valley, West Brom marked its 100th Premier League game with a lackluster 0-0 draw.
Middlesbrough beat Sunderland 3-0 at the Stadium of Light for its first league win in 10 matches. Emanuel Pogatetz, Stuart Parnaby and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink scored for Boro.
Sunderland has won only two of 23 league games this season and has only nine points, leaving it in last place, eight points behind the next closest team, Portsmouth.
Reading appears the likely candidate to replace a relegated Sunderland next season after a 4-0 win over Norwich.
Blackburn signed Florent Sinama-Pongolle on loan and David Bentley and Martin Olsson on permanent deals Tuesday.
Sinama-Pongolle is on loan from Liverpool until the end of the season. The France under-21 international, who joined Liverpool in 2003, has scored three times for Liverpool this season.
Nazi symbols
AS Roma was ordered to play its next home match at a neutral venue without spectators after its fans displayed Nazi and fascist symbols during last Sunday's match against Livorno.
The Italian soccer league's disciplinary commission decided the punishment Tuesday while the debate on how to stop political and racist misbehavior at matches continued.
The Roman must play its Feb. 8 Serie A match against Cagliari at least 100km from the Italian capital. The site will be decided by the league in the next few days.
Groups of Roma hardcore right-wing fans displayed Nazi and fascist symbols and some anti-Semitic banners at Stadio Olimpico. Fans of Lazio, which shares the stadium, behaved similarly last season.
Roma and Livorno fans have a long history of bitter rivalry and police reported Monday they had seized six molotov-cocktail bombs near the stadium before Sunday's kickoff. Roma won 3-0, moving up to fifth place after a sixth straight victory.
Italian soccer clubs are considered responsible for their fans' behavior. Roma will also have pay a fine of 7,000 euros because it supporters hurled some smoke bombs and other objects at rival fans.
On Wednesday, Roma hosts league-leader Juventus in the second leg of an Italian Cup quarterfinal with a 3-2 lead.
Interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu said on Tuesday that police officers will have the authority to stop the matches if symbols exalting political violence and racism are displayed in the stadiums.
Some soccer commentators noted that the repeated political and racist incidents may put at risk Italy's bid to host the European Championships in 2012.
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